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period pattern class starts way back in the gothic...
First up, a warm welcome to all my new followers! It seems that my millinery trim giveaway is really popular! I thought it might be a fun idea for paying-it-forward in terms of streamlining things in the studio, and it appears i wasn't alone in that. Very exciting to have so many new readers, and for those who are here with a strictly-millinery ( Read more... ) -
Millinery Trim Giveaway!
Calling all milliners and craftspeople, fiber and textile artists, and really anyone who's interested in high-end and antique ribbons and trims!
I'm overhauling my millinery studio and clearing out a few things, and i thought it would be fun to share the wealth!
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Update regarding the OOP Dryden dye textbook
This is a topic which comes up over and over on the email lists and discussion groups frequented by professional costumers--what single textbook could replace the out-of-print "industry bible" of Deborah Dryden's Painting and Dyeing for the TheatreAnd, yes, there are a lot of dye books out there to consider--comprehensive ones that cover a lot of ( Read more... ) -
Millinery class - final projects!
The semester has ended and my millinery students presented their final projects last week. Fun stuff, including sinamay, goddesses of doom, and roadkill. (Really!)
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Period pattern class: Utility dresses and New Look!
I have slacked off bigtime on here, so first off, i apologize for the lack of content lately. I have all these posts backburnered, so hopefully i can catch up over the holiday break and post them all ( Read more... ) -
Millinery class goes out there.
My millinery class has presented a couple of projects since i last shared photos, so this'll be a mishmash of excellent zaniness. They do a project involving wire-frame structures, and they do a project in which they create a hat/headdress with a historical or fantastical hairstyle for inspiration (basically, solving hair design issues with ( Read more... ) -
Period pattern class does 1930s eveningwear
Costume Director Judy Adamson's 20th Century Period Pattern class has recently presented their projects for 1930s bias-cut evening gowns. This is probably my favorite era, so i always love seeing these.
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Mottle-dyed embossed velvet for Into the Woods
For the second of the Witch's costumes in our production of Into the Woods at Playmakers Repertory Company, designer Bill Brewer had a truly fantastic vision for a sort of wizardy robe made of ornately-dyed and embossed velvet.
Draper Denise Chukhina came up with the process for how this fabric would be created, from which she would then make the ( Read more... ) -
Witch vegetables, part two: fiddleheads and magic beans
Today i'm talking about vegetation, part two! Recall from my last post that we're working on Into the Woods, and that our Witch's first look is quite vegetable-covered, which has meant a lot of fascinating craft projects for me and my two colleagues on Team Witch, Denise Chukhina and Sam Kate Toney.
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Vegetation creation for the Witch in Into the Woods
We're currently in production on our repertory shows this year, Into the Woods and Midsummer Night's Dream. Today, I've got a behind-the-scene peek into one of the many cool special effects we're doing in the costume crafts world to create these two huge, magical shows.
Our costume designer for Into the Woods is Bill Brewer, of UNC-School of the ( Read more... )