With the successful mock-up under our belt, we started the final version of the Mary Ward ‘Hyde Park Safety Skirt’. The material chosen is Dashing Tweed’s Raver Tweed. It features reflective yarn which makes it highly-visible in low light.
The skirt was a simple to make A-line skirt, joined together at the waist, with open seams on both sides. Here, Rachel tries out the in-progress skirt to see how the material falls when it gathers up.
Rachel catches the lining on the inside seams of the skirt, so both the skirt and lining gather upwards together.
I worked on the waistcoat
Rachel tries on the entire costume to see how it works together – blouse, waistcoat, skirt – as you can see all of it is work-in-progress
Rachel sews decorative rim on the apron edges
Laying out the research linings – Alice’s beautiful drawings digitally printed onto silk
cutting the straps from Alice’s drawings
sewing the straps
hand stitching the straps to the waistband
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Hello
A happy accident to stumble upon your website when I was originally looking for something else!
Absolutely beautiful designs and superbly executed – what a charming project.
I noticed in this particular post that you had Alice’s designs *digitally printed onto silk*, and the quality of the print looks rather good. I’ve been hunting for some time for a decent digital printer for some of my watercolour artwork to be made into textiles – would you mind sharing with me the name of the printer that you used, please? I’m assuming you had it done commercially, rather than among yourselves?
Many thanks for your help,
Helen
Vive Les Velocipedestriennes!
Hi Helen, sorry for the delay in responding. Our digital fabric printing was done in-house at Goldsmiths at the time. The artwork was by Alice Angus, who has lots of lovely digital printing in her art practice. See her website for more. There are lots of digital printing companies who can help. Contact me again if you are struggling and I can provide a shortlist.