a rare unlocked post
Jul. 2nd, 2021 05:14 pmI bought myself Folio Society copies of Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Air and since I finished my most recent NetGalley book I allowed myself to start rereading the former. It really is a totally different experience in the nicer format (compared to mass-market paperback, but also just ... in general, it's a very nice hardcover).
I follow someone on Tumblr called ziseviolet who posts a ton of pictures of hanfu - the photos are so gorgeous, I don't understand why Cdramas don't go for looks more like this!
I have made the big step of bringing my half-finished corset downstairs, but unfortunately MY CURVED BUSK HAS DISAPPEARED. Have ordered a replacement; in the meantime I will iron the wadded-up mess and try to do the, sigh, eyelets. Maybe stitch the busk channel. So far, they're fully handsewn as I was making them as an interpreter at Harvest Fest in 2019, but handsewn eyelets aren't really accurate for 1830s/40s anyway. In a sense, metal eyelets are more appropriate. Well, that's settled.
I'd like to take a pattern from something in FAM's collection for the gown, but that would mean either staying ~2 hours past the end of the day (or I guess maybe ~1 hr on a couple of days) or coming in on a weekend, and both of those options sound pretty terrible to me. So instead, for now the plan is to use the 1830-36 grey silk dinner dress pattern in Arnold, in cotton with perhaps a contrasting china silk piping/binding? Brb, mainlining![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
robinsnest 's blog for inspiration.
I follow someone on Tumblr called ziseviolet who posts a ton of pictures of hanfu - the photos are so gorgeous, I don't understand why Cdramas don't go for looks more like this!
I have made the big step of bringing my half-finished corset downstairs, but unfortunately MY CURVED BUSK HAS DISAPPEARED. Have ordered a replacement; in the meantime I will iron the wadded-up mess and try to do the, sigh, eyelets. Maybe stitch the busk channel. So far, they're fully handsewn as I was making them as an interpreter at Harvest Fest in 2019, but handsewn eyelets aren't really accurate for 1830s/40s anyway. In a sense, metal eyelets are more appropriate. Well, that's settled.
I'd like to take a pattern from something in FAM's collection for the gown, but that would mean either staying ~2 hours past the end of the day (or I guess maybe ~1 hr on a couple of days) or coming in on a weekend, and both of those options sound pretty terrible to me. So instead, for now the plan is to use the 1830-36 grey silk dinner dress pattern in Arnold, in cotton with perhaps a contrasting china silk piping/binding? Brb, mainlining
robinsnest 's blog for inspiration.
