Have several ideas in mind. The biggest is for my Husband Bob. A Fun trimmed Gown, U shapped Jerking, Side lace doublet, Gold Embroidered Trimmed Shirt, and Hose. King Henry the VIII. Found the perfect material for the Gown (Coat) but getting all the other pieces to color coordinate, or not clash, is a challenge. Also cost is always a factor. Have found some "perfect" fabric, but with 35-50 a yard price tags, I have passed. Jo-Ann's is having a 40% off sale on Home Decor fabric, and a lot of coupons, some for 50% off this week, so some serious looking is going on. The leading contender is $44 minus 40% is still $ 27 a yard x 4.5 yds = $120 = ouch. So off to look a Lorraine fabric again this morning. Looking, Researching, looking, thinking, looking, thinking, Reading Tudor Tailor, Looking, Sleeping on it, that is the first part in any project.
I have looked at all the on-line protraits of Henry VIII. Interesting, there are multiple portraits of him in the extract same stance, so they copied previous protraits. The only difference is the color, decoration, of the outfits.
Embroidered Coif Project. Update. Have finally sewed all the paillettes onto the coif. Have been rinsing out the embroidery tracing lines. This was done with a water soluable pen, designed for this. The problem seems to be the ink will run a bit into another area and only shows up after dryin. This required a couple of days of follow up spot cleaning. Pulling out the white linen from stash and I'm gong to make a mock up - same size - in plain white linen to check on fitting. I will then use this coif as a prize for the A&S competition in April. The picture of the original coif shows a border around the outside edge of a simple button hole stitch. This may have also been used to hold the two layers together. Doing more research into this.
Time's a wasting. Lorraine's open at 9 so got to go.
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