Cloth of Stars

And now for a fun post! Warning:  I'm going to cuss in this one.  You'll see why.   Sometimes things just don't go your way.  I ...

In the Hungarian National Museum exhibit, the extant Hapsburg wedding gown is shown sans headgear. There's a white scarf or veil wrapp...

Remember my painstaking experimentation with dyes last week, in an effort to find the perfect blue  for my next project? See, I had thi...

TADA and stuff. Hey, look, it's another blue cotehardie. I should start a blog or something. Closeup of sl...

So, I ordered this fabric a few weeks ago.  It was a rayon challis jacquard, and while I knew the design had paisleys in it, from the pic on...

Is that sometimes, they just come out all weird. Lemme back up. Remember the Ikea linen dress , that once was gray, got renovated, and t...

The fabric I was waiting for showed up over the weekend!  It's gorgeous . It's a heavy, upholstery-grade woven linen, and it's S...