Welcome to Shards of Narsil Costumes Feel free to look around, and don't forget to check the Updates page to see what's new. Click on each picture below to go to the corresponding diary page.
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Here it is, my first costume diary. This the page dedicated to the saga of my reproduction version of Arwen's Requiem gown from Return of the King.
Prelim Added: January 20, 2004 Diary added: February 7, 2004 Gallery updated: March 5, 2005
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Eowyn's White Wool Gown, worn sans belt to my (Katie's) Junior-Senior Banquet 2004. This was a team effort with my mother; I designed, drafted, and cut, and she sewed it together because of time constraints. It is very simple, but elegant. It also fit like a glove, due to my mother being a wizard and also having used the pattern before.
Added: February 22, 2004 Last updated: May 16, 2004 |
| Gown circa 1560's Venice, aka my first adventure in not using a commercial pattern and dyeing fabric.
Summer 2005
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I'm calling this the "Eight Hour Wonder Corset." In reality, it's my sister's Renaissance Faire costume from 2005, but the only part of it that I made was the corset. And I did it in, yep, eight hours.
Summer 2005
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| After falling in love with the gorgeous costumes from Emma Thompson's Sense & Sensibility, and having acquired the suitable patterns and materials, I just had to make my own Regency ensemble. As of October 2005, this is a work in progress. I really love the era, so it's likely that I'll end up making myself a wardrobe rather than just a dress. The basic, white Elinor dress is a good start, though!
Diary added October 5, 2005
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| This was a longstanding project that started with some gorgeous embroidered silk that was too expensive to do anything big with, so it became a pair of 18th century stays.
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| What do you get when a nerdy student has wanted to work at a historic site for over ten years, has an employee discount, sees the perfect fabric, and also has to make a final project for a costuming class?
...Okay, that didn't make much sense, but this dress is the result when you add all those things up!
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| Green linen round gown, reminiscent of the round gown from Sharon Burnston's Fitting & Proper. The workhorse of my colonial collection.
Summer 2006 |
| A 1770's caraco jacket.
Summer 2006
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Honors Senior Project 2007, four costumes for historic interpretation circa 1770. Click to go to a separate page with more information on all four outfits.
This project took up most of 2007 sewing-wise, so go take a look! |
