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Making an 1895 Walking Skirt (Using an 1895 Drafting Method)

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Bernadette Banner

For the Everyday Victorian.

FURTHER RESOURCES:
The Keystone Guide to Jacket and Dress Cutting: https://archive.org/details/keystonej...
Bertha Banner’s Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking: https://play.google.com/books/reader?...
Fine Times Watches: Alan Cartwright, owner; based in Derbyshire.   / finetimeswatches  
Brush braid footage courtesy of Olga (  / berolinensis  ) as found on the hem of an extant Edwardian skirt in her own collection.

MATERIALS USED:
Wool: Ayazmoon Fabrics, NYC (c. 5 yds)
Tarlatan: Regular weight (c. 6 yds). Takach Press, https://shop.takachpress.com/Tarlatan...
Pocket cotton: stash cabbage
Hem braid: Burnley & Trowbridge (5 yds) https://www.burnleyandtrowbridge.com/...

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Want to get started with hand sewing?

Check out my Skillshare original course, “Hand Sewing Basics: Working Wonders with Fabric, Needle & Thread”. To sign up for a free trial and take the class, visit https://skl.sh/bernadettebanner1

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MUSIC CREDITS:
Luminous Rain by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
“The Closing of Summer” by Asher Fulero, YouTube Audio Library
“Dream of the Ancestor” by Asher Fulero, YouTube Audio Library

Additional cinematography by Cathy Hay

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