Medieval and Renaissance Dresses

gokkivangogh: Lady Rowena dress One of the most beautiful...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:20:14 -0400

Lady Rowena dress

One of the most beautiful dresses we ever made. It’s made of velvet and decorated with exclusive trim, specially designed by ArmStreet and manufactured for this dress. Trimming is embroidered with beads and tiny pearls along neckslit, sleeves and front accents. Also it’s additionally decorated with fur.

Velvet is stretchy which makes this dress more slim-fitting. Also there is front lacing which gives us extra flexibility when making it remotely for custom size.

This gown has no historical prototype, however the silhouette and the style of finishing corresponds to the latter half of the XIVth century. As the inspiration of the pattern the fit of the Norman dress from the Greenlandic excavation was taken, which has been dated from that particular period.

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woman-of-winterfell: Photoset: Medieval Dresses

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:16:29 -0400

woman-of-winterfell:

Photoset: Medieval Dresses

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medievalandrenaissancecostumes: Katherine Howard (portrayed by...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:11:49 -0400

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Katherine Howard (portrayed by Tamzin Merchant) in season 4 of “The Tudors”

medievalandrenaissancecostumes: Anne Boleyn (portrayed by...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:10:48 -0400

medievalandrenaissancecostumes:

Anne Boleyn (portrayed by Natalie Dormer) in season 1 of “The Tudors”

medievalandrenaissancecostumes: Lucrezia Borgia (portrayed by...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:10:13 -0400

medievalandrenaissancecostumes:

Lucrezia Borgia (portrayed by Holliday Grainger) in season 2 of “The Borgias”

moskovia: Kobiety wojowników on We Heart It -...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:08:02 -0400

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Kobiety wojowników on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/38836925/via/moskovia

medievalandrenaissancecostumes: Jane Seymour (portrayed by...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:07:02 -0400

medievalandrenaissancecostumes:

Jane Seymour (portrayed by Anita Briem) in season 2 of “The Tudors”

celestialmazer: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A DRESS Restored dress as...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:03:23 -0400

celestialmazer:

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A DRESS

Restored dress as worn by Ellen Terry in her 1888 portayal of Lady Macbeth.

“When Ellen starred alongside Henry Irving in Macbeth in 1888, there was not a wide choice of fabrics available in England, and Alice could not find the colours she wanted to achieve her effects. She wanted one dress to ‘look as much like soft chain armour as I could, and yet have something that would give the appearance of the scales of a serpent.’ (Mrs. J. Comyns Carr’s ‘Reminiscences’. London: Hutchinson, 1926) Mrs. Nettlship found a twist of soft green silk and blue tinsel in Bohemia and this was crocheted to achieve the chain mail effect.

The dress hung beautifully but: ‘we did not think that it was brilliant enough, so it was sewn all over with real green beetle wings, and a narrow border in Celtic designs, worked out in rubies and diamonds, hemmed all the edges. To this was added a cloak of shot velvet in heather tones, upon which great griffens were embroidered in flame-coloured tinsel. The wimple, or veil, was held in place by a circlet of rubies, and two long plaits twisted with gold hung to her knees.’

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