Dress Diary: Experiments in Hemp Cording Part 2: Early 16th Century Purple Silk Florentine Gown Introduction: This gown represents my second attempt at creating a hemp stiffened bodice. Like the first dress, it’s based on the garments worn in the first quarter of the 16th century in Florence. This dress was entirely hand-sewn. My previous…
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Clothing Research
16th Century Florentine Hemp-Stiffened Dress
Welcome to the first post on VertOwl.com! I wanted to begin with a dress that would have been worn by my persona. This dress was created for Calontir’s Queen’s Prize Tournament in 2018, and the goal was to create a dress that was plausible for a Florentine noblewoman in the first quarter of the 16th…