Historian of Early Modern Fashion and Material Culture
Recently I was interviewed about my new position as a McKenzie Fellow at the University of Melbourne and about the research project on baleen and fashion that I will be undertaking there. I also chatted more about historical reconstruction and how valuable it is to understand the dress and making practices of the past. If… Continue reading New Interview: I talk about reconstruction, whalebone and more!
Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part One: Brief History and Materials Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Two: The Pattern Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Three: Making the Wire Frame Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Four: Making the Linen Collar Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Five: Finishing the Rebato 1. Pin the collar to the frame and check that it looks correct.… Continue reading Rebato, c. 1600-1625 | Part Five: Finishing the Rebato
Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part One: Brief History and Materials Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Two: The Pattern Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Three: Making the Wire Frame Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Four: Making the Linen Collar Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Five: Finishing the Rebato 1. Using my pattern, draw out the shape of the rebato collar on… Continue reading Rebato, c. 1600-1625 | Part Three: Making the Wire Frame
Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part One: Brief History and Materials Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Two: The Pattern Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Three: Making the Wire Frame Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Four: Making the Linen Collar Rebato, c. 1600-1625 Part Five: Finishing the Rebato My rebato is based on a pattern drafted by myself using the rebato… Continue reading Rebato, c. 1600-1625 | Part Two: The Pattern
Happy New Year! My first post of 2020 is to announce that I have recently started a new instagram account for this blog. It will feature some of the images that long-term followers of the blog may have seen already, as well as some new images and instagram stories of my various research projects behind… Continue reading New Instagram Account
I recently contributed a post titled, '“He shall not haue so much as a buske-point from thee”: Examining notions of Gender through the lens of Material Culture', to the Journal for the History of Ideas blog.
After many months of hand sewing and many pricked fingertips I present my reconstruction of the Filmer Bodies c. 1630-50 from Manchester Galleries.
Without further ado, I present my reconstruction of Elizabeth I’s bodies, side by side with the original effigy bodies in Westminster Abbey