Today I want to talk a little bit about the dress I wore to our Sommerfrische-ball. I have a love&hate-relationship with this dress because of the bad experience I had with the pattern and Nehelenia itself but I still love the look of the dress. But let’s start from the beginning. A while ago I […]
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As we all know, American Duchess have released a new book in early july! I was super excited for the release because the first one was great. I did experiment with 19th century beauty recipes in the past year and I always struggled with pomade to dress the hair properly. I pre-ordered my book on […]
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For the historical picnic in Bad Ischl Magda, a good friend of mine, and I decided to test a recipe from Mrs Crocombe from English Heritage. If you don’t know her please go and watch her ‘The Victorian Way’ now! The recipe was just as easy to make as it seemed in the video.From start […]
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As I told you in my last post about my crinoline project I bought a corset pattern which I wanted to tell you more about! I follow redthreaded on instagram for quite a while now and I adore her (and her teams) work! The corsets and stays always look so beautiful and seem to fit […]
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As a few of you know I was in London from the 1st to the 8th of january to attend a sewing course held by Thomas von Nordheim. I have to say, attending this course was one of the best desicions I made in a long time. How I got the place and what did […]
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Needleworking history 