| Pelican dress diary - finished! Plus: My new website | Jul. 20th, 2005 @ 12:47 pm |
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EDIT!
Due to current server problems my "usual" site is not available at the moment, and will probably not be for another week or so... *sigh*...
I'm currently uploading a mirror page, which will then be accessible at
http://www.naergilien.info.
As soon as the 'old' site works again, the pictures below will show again - but until then, feel free to browse through the aforementioned site, which is basically the same as the one mentioned below - just that it's at a different location.
If you want to browse through the links given below, this can easiest be done by replacing the http://www.yesterdaygowns.com part by http://www.naergilien.info - the folder and page names remain the same.
Thanks for reading, and sorry for the inconveniences!
Best wishes,
Naergi
( I am proud to announce that I have finally managed to... )
Best wishes,
Naergi
(X-posted to my own journal, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) dressdiaries , elizabethangarb and margospatterns )
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| Pelican gown reproduction, Tutorial: How to paint Tudor roses | Jun. 28th, 2005 @ 11:50 am |
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How to paint Tudor Roses
If you have no idea how to paint Tudor roses by hand without a template, the following animated Gif-Image might help you.
There may be other or better ways to paint Tudor Roses - for whatever purpose, be it to make a template for blackwork embroidery, to create something likely to my partlet and sleeves or just to have something to draw while being on the phone - but I think that this is the easiest method, especially if practiced some times, so I have created this animation to show the single steps. I think it's self explaining, so I will spare myself any explanation.
I admit that this is not the most beautiful Tudor Rose I have ever painted - but, well, it shows the basic steps.
It might take some time for the whole animation to load (1MB size); please be patient if you decide to click on the cut:
( Animation of painting a Tudor Rose )
I hope it is of use to someone ;-)
Best wishes,
Naergi
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| 'Pelican' gown reproduction: Partlet and sleeves | Jun. 28th, 2005 @ 11:44 am |
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Come my lad.
Come on and set my partlet on one side as I do on the other...
(Miss Starkie, "possessed by a spirit" in 1597, calling out to the devil) |
( The partlet and sleeves )
Hope you liked it and forgive me :-)
Best wishes,
Naergi
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| Pelican gown diary: The farthingale | Jun. 24th, 2005 @ 03:44 pm |
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"My lad,
I will have a French farthingale, and it shall be finer than thine;
I will have it low before and high behind and broad on either side that I may laye mine arms upon it."
(Miss. Starkie, "possessed by a spirit" in 1597, calling out to the devil - I know that the above written statement refers to a French, drum-shaped farthingale, but I like it so much that I thought I should just write it down here) |
I was so fascinated by this description in the wardrobe inventories of Elizabeth I.:
"(...) a verthingale of crimsen Satten striped with gold(...)"
...*SO* Pelican gown. *SO* mine.
Except, of course, that I could find no "crimsen Satten striped with gold"... ( The farthingale )
Best wishes,
Naergilien
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| Pelican gown diary: The smock | Jun. 24th, 2005 @ 03:37 pm |
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Thus, my lad, I will have a fine Smocke of silke, it shall be finer than thine...
(Miss. Starkie, "possessed by a spirit" in 1597, calling out to the devil) |
( The smock (or chemise) )
Best wishes,
Naergilien
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| » How to make Quadruples |
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This is my first entry for my dress diary on the "Pelican" gown. I thought that I'd better split it up - it is *really* long, and not completely finished yet - so until I have actually finished it, I will give out small portions of tutorials on how to make the single elements used for the decoration of the gown.
Here's the first tutorial...:
( What are & how to make 'Quadruples' of pearls )
(X-posted to dressdiaries , elizabethangarb and my own journal)
May. 11th, 2005 @ 11:51 am
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...from the world, I'm currently working on something *really* exceptional.
Here's a first preview of the gown still being made (sorry, but that gown took my mind - it *must* have - as you probably know, or perhaps not - I *never* wanted to make any *red* gowns for myself...):
I think I will finish it within the next one or two weeks - anyone interested in a *very* detailled and lengthy step-by-step, pictured dress diary then...? Uhm - I could post it, but it's going to be *very* long....
 
(yes - that's a copy of the "Pelican" gown)...
Best wishes,
Naergi
(X-posted to dressdiaries , elizabethangarb and my own journal)
May. 10th, 2005 @ 06:26 pm
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Note: I've had this entry in my journal before - in fact, it was posted two days ago.
Due to the fact that I've completely messed up the posting so that it would not appear on my friend's friendslists, I'm reposting this one.
Long, long text behind the cuts.
Note: Each picture shown in this entry can be clicked upon, which will bring you to a different site - and if you click on the picture *there*, you will be taken to a bigger version.
( The Phoenix portrait gown )
( Eleonora's bural gown and pure, boring mathematical calculations on machine embroidery )
( And finally... the conclusion - Maria Di Medici's blue and black portrait gown )
Apr. 14th, 2005 @ 12:21 pm
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