Making a Velvet Coat || How to get started on a historical sewing project

*** Sign up for free sewing tutorials and a weekly love letter at https://foundationsrevealed.com/free-level/ *** I'm really excited to begin work on the Victorian Marshall & Snelgrove velvet coat I picked out last month. I'm also excited to show you my process from the very beginning of a project. How DO you get started on a big project like this? Spoiler alert: step 1 is NOT selecting a pattern. So this month I'll start to show you how I go from inspiration pictures to figuring out how I'm actually going to do this. Love, Cathy x *** Online resources about the coat: *** V&A Collections Record for the coat https://tinyurl.com/2seb9ss5 More about the coat and its context: https://tinyurl.com/46p4nvcr *** Books featured: *** The gorgeous Jeanne Paquin dress with the nifty mauve velvet jacket is from: Jan Glier Reeder, "High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Musuem Costume Collection" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010) Drafting books: 1895 - Charles Hecklinger, "Keystone Jacket and Dress Cutter" (Dover Fashion and Costumes, 2006) 1897 - T H Holding, "Late Victorian Women's Tailoring: The Direct System of Ladies' Cutting" (R L Shep, 2001) 1901 - "Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns and Tailoring Techniques" by SS Gordon with a new introduction by Kristina Harris (Dover Publications, 2003) Some of these can be hard to get hold of or very expensive if you do find a copy, especially on Amazon. I recommend checking abebooks.com and bookfinder.com regularly for second h