Wishing you all a very happy 2019. The new year looks like it is going to be a very busy one for me.
I am hoping I will be finishing the textile archive by the end of March. Meanwhile, I hope to put a display together of the wedding dresses that belong to the Patterson House. Hopefully it will be up around the first of May. There may be a trip to Spain in the latter part of Spain and a few days in Arizona in July-August. Then it will be time to take down the wedding dresses.
Somewhere in there I would like to start a reproduction of the dress we have archived, the 1900s lt pink/mauve dress. The hardest thing about making an reproduction is finding the fabric....which usually you can't because they don't make that fabric anymore. So far these are possibilities:
I probably won't be using any of these but there will be a hunt at the fabric stores.
So, a lot to look forward too!
Today I dropped off 6 of the boxes at the Patterson House. I had put the acid-free boxes together which was easy but takes room and time. I added a couple of handle pulls from tape to each one because otherwise it is hard to open the box. I have 3 more to take over to the house. 5 of the 9 are the extra long boxes, 40 inches. Hopefully that will save folding some of the garments.
I will have more for you after Jan 3rd when I plan to add archive tags and box the dresses that are temporarily in box lids, waiting for their new boxes.
I am hoping I will be finishing the textile archive by the end of March. Meanwhile, I hope to put a display together of the wedding dresses that belong to the Patterson House. Hopefully it will be up around the first of May. There may be a trip to Spain in the latter part of Spain and a few days in Arizona in July-August. Then it will be time to take down the wedding dresses.
Somewhere in there I would like to start a reproduction of the dress we have archived, the 1900s lt pink/mauve dress. The hardest thing about making an reproduction is finding the fabric....which usually you can't because they don't make that fabric anymore. So far these are possibilities:
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| This would be for the netting on the bodice. It look very close to the original |
And for the light pink, a dupioni silk.
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So, a lot to look forward too!
Today I dropped off 6 of the boxes at the Patterson House. I had put the acid-free boxes together which was easy but takes room and time. I added a couple of handle pulls from tape to each one because otherwise it is hard to open the box. I have 3 more to take over to the house. 5 of the 9 are the extra long boxes, 40 inches. Hopefully that will save folding some of the garments.
I will have more for you after Jan 3rd when I plan to add archive tags and box the dresses that are temporarily in box lids, waiting for their new boxes.
So excited to see the new dress come along.
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