Regency sewing - it was tidy for 10 minutes.

Advance notice -   York Open Studios - Last 2 weekends in April.   Will have my machine embroidery on show and for sale, as well as small s...

A Tangent- but still costume and history based! I spent part of the Autumn exploring the idea of clothing and words being linked at very...

I' m feeling guilty for not doing more on the costume side - I spent most of the Spring working on the full sized costumes for the York ...

Is there anyone in historical costume land who hasn;t  at least heard of Janet Arnold?  Museum of London has some of the extant garments ...

Long time, no write, but it seems that the technical issues have been resolved. Well, we can hope! This is one of the costumes made since...

apologies to all -  I am abandoning this blog site - unresolved technical illnesses. The posts etc will remain as they stand but no more wil...

So far so good - the trouble is 'so far' isn't very far at all.  To recap - inspiration is -  Phillip Mercier's portrait o...