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Journal des Dames et des Modes

By: Kate Davies Designs April 30, 2016April 30, 2016

clothing, fashion, Historydress, fashion, fashion history, haps, History, history of dress, images, journal des dames et des modes, shawls, textile history48 Comments

Over the past few months, while working on the project that has now become The Book of Haps, I’ve examined countless images of wrappable textiles. I’ve encountered many ways to wear such textiles, and also reflected on the many different contexts for their wearing. Some of these groups of images were very useful for me,…

snow deco

We have at last seen something like wintry weather in Scotland over the past few days. I much prefer a crisp, cold winter day to a muggy, grey wet one (who doesn’t?) so the snow and sunshine have really felt something like a treat. And not least because we have been waiting for exactly the…

a handmade wedding

Thankyou, all of you, for your lovely comments and congratulations! I thought you might appreciate hearing a little more about the handmade elements of our wedding. A few years ago, Tom decided to have a kilt made. His surname is Barr, and the tartan of that name is also associated with a popular Scottish soft-drinks…

Svenska Folkdräkter

By: Kate Davies Designs January 27, 2014January 27, 2014

textilesAnna-Maja Nylen, costume, dress, historical costume, History, Nordiska Museet, Svenska Folkdräkter, Sweden, Swedish costume, Swedish Peasant Costume33 Comments

Thank you all so much for the wealth of information you provided in your comments on the last post. I am now happily at the trip-planning stage, and am really looking forward to visiting Sweden in the early Summer. And as if to provide a colourful antidote to this January’s rather relentless grey, today this…

not a onesie?

By: Kate Davies Designs September 2, 2013September 2, 2013

clothing, costume, fashionall-in-ones, boiler suits, clothing, costume, decorating, dress, fashion, LHD marine supplies, moving, onesies, renovating108 Comments

I purchased this boiler suit from LHD Marine supplies in Lerwick a while ago and have been wearing it pretty much constantly for the past three weeks. We have not had a washing machine; I have been spending most of my time decorating, and for both reasons it has formed a useful uniform. For some…

V8468

By: Kate Davies Designs May 3, 2009

dressmaking, landscape, sewing, walkingbass rock, dress, dressmaking, hand-made, hill walking, North Berwick, North Berwick Law, sewing, vogue, vogue patterns, walking27 Comments

. . . is the pattern number of my new dress. It is an ‘easy’ vogue pattern, and, having worked myself up (or perhaps down?) into the the zen-like state that I must be in to cut out fabric and sew at the machine, I knocked it up over a few hours yesterday. I used…