This Is What The Pattern Looks Like || Victorian Velvet Coat #historicalsewing #victorianfashion

Spoiler alert: *** Sign up for free sewing tutorials and a weekly love letter at https://foundationsrevealed.com/free-level/ *** I came back from the V&A Museum last month with a weird little drawing that didn't altogether make sense: This beautiful embroidered Victorian coat seems to have a bizarre seam right across the middle of one of the velvet panels. Throughout March I've been scribbling on tracing paper trying to persuade it to make sense. If I can figure out what the pattern for the original coat might have looked like, I'll have a much better chance of capturing a little of its magic, and making my coat look just as unusual and beautiful as the original one. I invite you to figure out the pattern puzzle with me this month! *** Books *** Lucy Johnston, "Nineteenth Century Fashion In Detail" (V&A Publications, 2006) SS Gordon with a new introduction by Kristina Harris, "Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns and Tailoring Techniques" by (Dover Publications, 2003, reprint of a 1901 original) *** 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 *** Music *** ‘We Are Giants’ by Silver Maple ‘Rotation Begins’ by Arthur Benson ‘Connection’ by Aerian ‘Among Terraced Houses’ by Arthur Benson ‘The Girl from the North’ by Magnus Ludvigsson ‘Aero’ by Trevor Kowalski ‘The Air You Breathe’ by Aerian ‘Longing for Home’ by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen ‘Mi