Collaborating with some of the world’s best mantua-making minds on this 1690s mantua really was one of the highlights of our Making Historical Dress Festival last week 🪡

In conjunction with our final festival we set ourselves the challenge of making a 1690s mantua. It is based on one worn by a doll named Lady Clapham @V_and_A . Collaboratively we used our experience of making 17thc & 18thc clothing to bring the gown to life in only a few days!

Fashion historian @Serena_Dyer and a team of experts have recreated a rare mantua dress from the 1690s during the @MakingHistDress festival, to help inform today's dressmakers about sustainability @SarahABendall https://t.co/9nhn4yaJ82

Loved speaking with @margdier about a 1629 embroidered Bible cover and a 1672 beadwork casket conserved by the @RoyalNeedlework Studio for the @MakingHistDress festival. What a great forum to bring together makers and researchers of making!

Kicking off our festival today is a keynote on ‘Animating Durer’s Cloaks’ by Ulinka Rublack @Cambridge_Uni . Rublack talks about recreating the colours and cloaks of 15th and 16th century menswear

Fascinating talk. Missed the 1st bit so lucky it was recorded. Loved the discussion about thread, stitches, pockets & wider histories of objects. And yes, with fast fashion & mass production, how does that change the value & choice of what items we pass down? 🤔 Lots to ponder 🧐

We are delighted to invite you to attend our second Making Historical Dress online event titled Deconstruction, Alteration and Recreation: Stories from Australian and New Zealand Collections. Register here: https://t.co/2Z4YZhqgEx

📣PhD Scholarship Alert!📣 We are currently advertising 24 fully funded PhD scholarships @dmuleicester, including ✨ Adapting Historical Zero Waste Cutting Methods for the Current Fashion Industry✨ For more info and to apply:

Our recording of workshop 3 is now up on the website. Click here to view the full programme and recording: https://t.co/EZaRMwRhP2

You can register for your free online place here

They will each share their approach to commercialising remaking, before participating in a roundtable discussion chaired by @Serena_Dyer. Participants include: 🪡 Angela Burnley, @BurnleyandTrow 🪡 Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies, @TheTudorTailor

Remaking historical dress not only offers creative and scholarly avenues, but also commercial opportunities. This online panel brings together people who have made recreative practice their business.

We are excited to share the details of our first online-only event! Commercialising Remaking: The Business of Making Historical Dress will take place on 17th June at 1pm BST (UK time) over Teams.

I had a lovely time last week filming for a documentary on recreative practice 🪡

Reminder that this deadline is next week!

Our Project Lead @Serena_Dyer has a new book out all about recreating 18th-century fashionable dress 🪡📖

We’re so excited for the big culmination of @MakHistDress’s in-person events! Do send in your proposals for papers, performances, and demonstrations!

We are delighted to share the CFP for the ✨Making Historical Dress Festival✨ taking place @dmuleicester on 13th & 14th Sept 2024. We seek proposals for papers, performances and demonstrations. The deadline for abstracts is 13th May 2024. Please do share widely!

I am delighted to share the 📢 CALL FOR ARTICLES 📢for a special issue of @womenshistrev that I am editing on 🪡 Women Making Fashion 🪡 Please do get in touch if you would like to discuss an article idea. More information is available here: https://t.co/4ViuU39GM7

@ZaraKesterton @glassbuttons @vt_isaac Our final presentation for the day is from Bronwyn Clark who is speaking about making and remaking in colonial and contemporary rural Australia