Historical sewing

Do you want to make your own historical costumes on a budget? These are my 8 tips on how to get started in historical costuming!

If you have an urge to use up some of your fabric stash, or simply have an hour to spare for some much needed crafting time, try this easy tutorial to make a charming slip-over apron. Based on an …

Nightgown, Ladies’ Home Journal- 1907

11 tips how on to wear vintage and historical clothing in your everyday life without making people thinking you’re crazy or old-fashioned! 😉 Do you want to wear your beautiful vintage and historical dresses in your everyday life? But you don’t want to look too costumey or old-fashioned? Below I share 11 tips on how … Continue reading 11 Tips On How To Dress Vintage & Historical Without Looking Too Costumey →

‘Time to think of the cool, sweet mornings and their gowns of crisp figured lawn; time to think of the drowsy afternoons with their hammock dresses of voile taffeta, mull and batiste; time to think of the summer evenings and their veilings, their silvered chiffons, their wonderful tissues and their transparencies. Time to think of … Continue reading Edwardian Lingerie Dress →

If you sew a lot, especially if you sew historical costumes, you’ll have to sew a placket sooner or later. Most plackets aren’t difficult to make but there are some things to keep in mind. Learn what placket to use for what purpose and to sew six types of historical plackets: hemmed placket, bound placket, … Continue reading 6 Ways How To Sew A Placket – Historical Sewing →

These 18th century linen stays were an impromptu sewing project with linen fabric scraps from my stash.

Some years ago, I turned a modern cotton blouse into a Victorian-style blouse. Because it’s a modern blouse cut, it hasn’t the sloped shoulder seams – typical of Victorian bodices – but this isn’t seen if the blouse is worn with a zouave jacket. I replaced the buttons with hooks and the sleeve buttons with … Continue reading Victorian Blouse Makeover →

In this post, I'll go over how to find free vintage sewing books. There are a lot of vintage and antique books that are in the public domain now.

The Edwardian era is my favorite historical era at the moment 😀 and also the era I know the most about. I try to make all my Edwardian clothes as historically accurate as possible using Edwardian sewing techniques. So I thought I’d write a list about popular Edwardian sewing details and why they were used. … Continue reading 10 Edwardian Sewing Details + Why They Were Used →

My modern Edwardian bra has a button closure, elastic lacing at the back and is boned like a corset. It turned out so comfortable!

18th Century Bodice Pattern I drafted this bodice pattern for my Robe à l’Anglaise back in 2017 and recently reused and tweaked it a bit, since there were some issues with my first version. Read about that in my new blogpost 🙂 You can download version 2.0 of this 18th century bodice pattern down below… Read More 18th Century Bodice Pattern

An easy and genius way to turn handkerchiefs into an airy lace top - the Edwardian handkerchief camisole is perfect for hot summer days!

In this post, I'll go over how to find free vintage sewing books. There are a lot of vintage and antique books that are in the public domain now.

For my Edwardian plaid walking skirt with button closure & velvet piping I only had a limited amount of fabric: only 1.5 meter by 1.5 meters!

Folkwear is one of the oldest independent sewing pattern companies. They publish global, historical, and vintage sewing patterns, often including extensive cultural history, textile information, and handwork embellishment instructions in their patterns.

Tally Sharples on Instagram: "Let’s turn a modern shirt to a vintage style blouse. I’m using my trusted blouse pattern for this (Etsy, VintagePatternsSewingBI: Vintage 1930’s vintage sewing pattern: WWII Women’s suit) with the sleeve coming from the Sophie Hatter costume pattern I like to use (Etsy, FashionPatternStudio: Victorian Inspired daily dress). I was able to reuse the button front and the sleeves, so this entire process took me less than two hours ✨"

Edwardian combinations made using turn-of-the-century drafting techniques, developed into a ready-made pattern. Antique lace, silk ribbon, vintage glass buttons. Victorian underpinnings, edwardian underwear, lingerie, historical sewing pattern

Placket tutorial from historical sewing.com Skirt hooks & bars on placket

“MORNING DRESS—The most suitable dress for breakfast, is a wrapper made to fit the figure loosely, and the material, excepting when the winter weather requires woolen goods, should be of chintz, gingham, brilliante, or muslin" - The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness by Florence Hartley, 1860 When I give a "Getting Dressed" presentation, I like to travel in style, comfort, and modesty, donning a wrapper to drive my horseless carriage to and from the locations. (Since we are…