FREE convertible cycle wear PDF sewing pattern packs – available NOW
Victorian women's CONVERTIBLE CYCLE WEAR sewing patterns are here! Six PDF pattern packs (for a total of 9 garments) are FREE to download. Each is inspired by the research patents…
See the converting costumes in action
#1 Alice Bygrave's Pulley Cycling Skirt ------------ #2 Julia's Gill's cycling semi-skirt ------------ #3 Henrietta Muller's three piece cycling suit ------------ #4 Pease sisters' combined cycling skirt and cape -----------…
Victorian women’s convertible cycle wear sewing patterns
We are in the process of developing 9 open source downloadable PDF sewing patterns inspired by our research and patents lodged by inventive women 1895-1899. More soon!
Art & Sociology – Alice writes about her part on the project
Alice has written about her experiences of being part of the project on the Proboscis website: Some of Alice's amazing illustrations that will be digitally printed on silk and sewn…
Blouses and more blouses
I had a blouse making marathon on the long weekend. We have been focusing on the main pieces of each garment until now but the blouse is a pretty important…
Traces, material memory and scars
Threads on clothes. Pin scratches from trying things on. Needles in finger tips from hand sewing. Cuttings like confetti. Facing glue on the iron. Sewing machine slump. Odd buttons. Many…
Digital label embroidery designs
I have been excited to get making labels for the cycling collection. Having collated a few ideas from existing examples of dressmaking labels (from original 1890s garments), a range of…
Coming close to ‘The Real Thing’
The last few weeks have involved contacting a whole range of costume, sporting and women's archives to ensure we aren't making something that already exists, or that if we are,…
Asking things of things – Part II
I'm an ethnographer. I'm used to talking with people, interviewing them, hanging out, doing participant observation of contemporary society. I'm less used to talking with and to things. I'm written…