Drafting and Making a Late Victorian Waistcoat (1895)

USEFUL THINGS:
The Keystone Guide to Jacket and Dress Cutting: https://archive.org/details/keystonejacketdr00heck/page/82
Bertha Banner’s Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking: https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=IhMlyt7IuGsC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA9
Antique pocket watch and chain from Fine Times Watches: Alan Cartwright, owner; based in Derbyshire. http://www.instagram.com/finetimeswatches

MATERIALS USED:
Wool: Ayazmoon Fabrics, NYC (1/2 yd)
Silesia: Bias Bespoke (1/2 yd) (https://www.biasbespoke.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=94&category_id=40)
Tailor’s canvas: Steinlauf & Stoller, NYC (1/4 yd)
Buttons: Daytona Trimming, NYC (6 ct)
Synthetic baleen, 4mm x 1mm: Burnley & Trowbridge (https://www.burnleyandtrowbridge.com/GB1.aspx)
Ribbon casing: M&J Trimming, NYC (1 yd)
Brown cotton thread: John Lewis
Black silk thread (pad stitching): Sil Thread, NYC
Black silk buttonhole twist: Sil Thread, NYC

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Portals to Other Realms:
Instagram, for real-time progress: http://www.instagram.com/bernadettebanner (@bernadettebanner)
Patreon, for more vloggish and bloggish content: https://www.patreon.com/bernadettebanner
Ko-Fi, if that’s more your thing: https://ko-fi.com/bernadettebanner
Prints of costume renderings: https://www.redbubble.com/people/bertiebanner/shop

For business enquiries, please contact my representation at:
bernadette@helmtalentgroup.com
Requests for personal dressmaking commissions are not considered at this time.

MUSIC CREDITS:
Luminous Rain by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100169
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
“Unknown Longing” by Asher Fulero, YouTube Audio Library

IMAGE CREDITS:
https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/search/searchterm/French%20Fashions%2C%201895-1915/field/relatig/mode/exact/order/title/page/1

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