Making an 1895 Walking Skirt (Using an 1895 Drafting Method)

For the Everyday Victorian.

FURTHER RESOURCES:
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
Fine Times Watches: Alan Cartwright, owner; based in Derbyshire. http://www.instagram.com/finetimeswatches
Brush braid footage courtesy of Olga (http://www.instagram.com/berolinensis) as found on the hem of an extant Edwardian skirt in her own collection.
Cathy Hay’s skirt blog post: https://thepeacockdress.com/2018/11/clothing-your-true-self/
And see her Instagram feed for the progress updates: http://www.instagram.com/cathy.hay

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MATERIALS USED:
Wool: Ayazmoon Fabrics, NYC (c. 5 yds)
Tarlatan: Regular weight (c. 6 yds). Takach Press, https://shop.takachpress.com/Tarlatan-p/tarlatan.htm
Pocket cotton: stash cabbage
Hem braid: Burnley & Trowbridge (5 yds) https://www.burnleyandtrowbridge.com/WT2.aspx

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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/
“The Closing of Summer” by Asher Fulero, YouTube Audio Library
“Dream of the Ancestor” by Asher Fulero, YouTube Audio Library

Additional cinematography by Cathy Hay

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