Come and make a 16th-century Spanish farthingale with me using historically accurate materials and methods, including hoops of bent!! 🧵 🪡
On Saturday the 15 March, I’m teaching a one-day workshop at the Centre for Rare Arts and Forgotten Trades in a partnership between Australian Catholic University in Ballarat, Australia. Int he workshop you will make a half-scale Spanish farthingale based on this surviving example from Spain.
You’ll also get to make hoops from bents, just like Queen Elizabeth I’s tailors and farthingale makers did!
All methods are taught so that they’re easily replicated at home, ensuring your sixteenth century tailoring journey continues well after the class. At the end of the day, you will get to take your creation home.
Click HERE to go to the centre’s website to book. You can also find out more about what you’ll need to bring and what you’ll learn.
