Whoops. I have had to sort and categorise all my North Rhine research because I finally found a very small but very important stream of information in the form of both artwork and archives. One of the problems with both is being sure that what I’m seeing is indeed from the time. One archive record…
Tag: anneofcleves
a halsband
I am currently making over all my jewelry for my Cleves ensemble so these are the references I am using. One of the accessories Anne of Cleves wears is a striking collar like necklace made from wide stylised flowers set with large round gold beads between. This last version is most interesting as it matches…
new cleves dress
There are times when you just cannot ignore an opportunity and one arose to get a length of the Sartor reproduction weave of the cloth of gold fabric of the Golden Gown of Margareta in Upsala. So, for years I have wanted to recreate Anne of Cleves wedding gown or her black and gold gown….
a bon fine- not anne of cleves motto
I think in Anglo-centric writings and art history there has been a lot of context missing when interpreting the clothing depicted in the portraits of Anne of Cleves. I have also been looking through modelbuchs at embroidery and found some patterns that seem to be used in art (if not in entirely there are deer/hart…
cleves headgear
I still need to do some tidying, and I am definitely making a few more of these, so it’s not totally complete right now. I need to sit it slightly further forward too. (Wearing my Kimmy Schmidt cardigan because it’s so much part of my new me- allowing myself to wear several colours at…
my pink cleves gown and some inspiration behind it
From Facebook: Emily Gibbs to Canterbury Faire 2018, 29 January at 19:58 · Kaikoura Suburban, New Zealand I am so inordinately happy with this! It has everything I love about the Cranach Saxon style with the weirdness of everything in the Nordrein (North Rhine.) But it is weird. I’ll break down all the weirdness as I…
cleves progress
I’m taking a short break now from hand sewing. I have cohesive bandage to lay down as I think I’ll need it. Anyway. I forgot how annoying and fiddly it is to hand sew a piled fabric to a fabric that is springy but without a pile. Thread just stretches and the turn under moves….
so pink and crimson works
Yesterday was a bad luck day. It started with a health wobble (very old one, and it was definitely a whole lot better than it used to be) Mr Carlo going missing, rain, pale mamma duck lost one more duckling, I couldn’t find the glass jars I know one of the cheapie stores in Westfield…
more clevische kleidung
Today I got my lining put together and pinned into the pink Cleves skirt, reshaped my hulle and steamed it into a nice curve (yep, millinery, so much steam and pressing and more steam and the stink of ammonia, and lanolin, and and more steam.) I have set it aside so I can make another…
