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That one time I made this #Edwardian blouse by sewing together pieces of embroidered cotton batiste by hand with 2-3mm seam allowances or felled seams when I wanted the pattern to meet very nicely. Straight seams by machine and all finishing by hand, if I recall! It took a long time but was very satisfying.

#HistoricalCostuming #Sewing

A photo portrait of Sini wearing a very large black hat, a black skirt and a very dainty white blouse with white embroidery on it. The view is from the back, with her face turned to show her profile, cropped to upper hip and upward. The blouse buttons from the back, with the upper back yoke cut on the bias and having very closely spaced white pearl buttons, the lower back with them wider apart. The fabric is so sheer you can see the very narrow seams and a corset cover straps beneath it. The blouse blouses down from the yoke and is cinched in by the skirt waist.
Portrait of the same, but with Sini facing to the front and gazing at the viewer. The light is quite pretty. The front yoke of the blouse has been sewn in a way that looks seamless, with one repeating pattern of the embroidery running across the yoke seam, without any visible seams. The high collar has been made likewise. The hat has some nice dotted veiling and Sini is wearing a curly orange wig, which covers up some of the blouse, but the portrait itself is lovely.
A very very close up photo of the collar in progress, with a repeat of the embroidered pattern being sewn on another piece, going crosswise. The embroidered bit has a continuing line of embroidery that surrounds a chained circle motif, and this is in the process of being sewn down by hand with a tiny needle, with an absolutely tiny seam allowance. The stitches themselves are nearly invisible, the white thread getting lost in the white embroidery. There is a seam gauge and scissors for scale. The scale is minuscule.
Photo of the same, from the reverse, and from the bust yoke seam, finished. The repeat of the embroidery pattern has been sewn as an insertion, the top part overlaid across the yoke, flat, and the clipped and trimmed seam allowances whipstitched with incredibly small stitches. The bottom part is a strategically gathered shirt body, the pattern of the embroidery matching on one bit, and being relatively close elsewhere. There is a 10 eurocent coin for scale, which is tiny.
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Sini Tuulia
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I also made the hat. The hat also took forever and was quite satisfying but there are pretty much no photos of the process because getting photos of black velvet is kind of a hassle
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Sini Tuulia
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I have located TWO photos of making the hat!

I sewed it pretty much by hand because it was quite unwieldy due to its size. There's a sinamay hat base I steamed into a new shape under all the velvet, which I just draped on and pleated down into pleasant little patterns. The flat crin tubing is simulating feathers and moves in a dainty way when walking, it's nice.

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A really not very good photo of the making of of a very large black hat. There are little sewing clips holding the black velvet onto the brim of the hat, the hat on a little stand on Sini's desk, in front of a keyboard. There is a pleasant little fan pattern in the pleated velvet, which radiates out from the crown of the hat.
Same, but with the other side of the far more finished hat. There is a large and full bow of dotted veiling, a little velvet bow on top of it. There are two sprays of sheer black "ribbon" that curls like curled rooster feathers would. There is desktop faff and scissors in the frame.
#millinery
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Sini Tuulia
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I made a whole bunch of Edwardian lingerie and layers that year. Also this little camisole. They didn't have zigzag back then, but I wanted it to be able to withstand the laundry machine a bit better, and nobody could ever really make it out at a distance. The little pintucks already took long enough and I didn't feel like more hand felling!

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Very close up photos in an artsy little grid, showing construction details of a camisole or shift. A narrow band of flower motif lace has been sewn onto strips of finely pin tuck decorated white batiste. The process of the lace being sewn on is shown. First the straight seam to join one edge of lace to the body. Then the seam allowance is flipped to the reverse and top-stitched through all layers with a very narrow zigzag stitch. Then the seam allowance is clipped with pinking shears.
Photo of the finished front, with hand sewn buttonholes and tiny faux pearl buttons. There is a bit of insertion lace under the bust seam. All of it is very fine and finely made.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia that's *very* edwardian!
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Sini Tuulia
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@valhalla Indeed! "I could do this by machine and it would be fine. But I can also spend hours doing it by hand just to show off, and that's the true Edwardian way isn't it" πŸ˜„β€‹

Also the hat that is wider than my shoulders, I felt it was very accurate.

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Holir_
Holir_
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Killing it in the full outfit.
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@Holir_ Thank you! I was probably wearing dinosaur socks at the time πŸ˜„β€‹
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Holir_
Holir_
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Ahhhh. The complete look then! iirc Edwardian's were kinda big into Dinos
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Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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@Holir_ I'm unsure but I think there was a boom of palaeontology around the turn of the century, right before Egyptomania in the 1920s πŸ€”β€‹
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Plumereine
Plumereine
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This is so beautiful 😍 congratulations for doing this 🀩

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