dress accessories, celebrations and the customs associated with key events in her life- births, deaths, marriages, employment, education, pets and how she spent her days at home and on holidays. There's my sewing galleries, a shopping page, a bibliography and a bunch of other stuff there ...
That material, and the black lace for the evening dress below, had come from a bag given to me by a friend, Vivien, from sewing group here. I really wanted to use the lace, as it feels very Spanish mantilla, so layered it over some dark gold, which may well be something that Kerry...
Her dress is also from a satin blouse from the thrift shop. Her belt a lovely scrap of pink velvet ribbon from the satin blouse. Her long hair is braided up at both sides and a long braided tail hangs off to the side. The Nice thing about this project is that the figures are ...
sewing, which he understands to be women’s work, but who also harvested, cut down trees, and cleared the fields, imitating ‘in all things the monks of Clairvaux’.55Engelhard’s depiction of female strength as equal to that of men suggests that he thought women were capable of...