Minty Madness
I’ve been wanting to make a Regency gown from this beautiful embroidered minty sari. Julia sells a range of embroidered fabric and shawls, some pre-made and others fully custom. You can check them out...
Laurie Tavan
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Ackerman 1918 fashion reproduction w/ Lynn McMasters
Lynn McMasters of Out of a Portrait created the Spartan cap, dyed the custom pink pom poms, and made the shoe puffs.
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2021 Halloween family costumes
This year I finally made a group costume for my family! It’s based off of my sons pandemic pet, Mister Scales. He is a Citrus bearded dragon. I have the photos of his parents...
The American Duchess Guide to 18th century Beauty- Behind the scenes Making of video
“>Behind the scenes of the Coiffure Beignet hairstyle in the book can be found on Facebook watch.
AD Beauty behind the scenes
American Duchess posted their behind the scenes video including some footage of when they did my hair up for the book. American Duchess video
So Especial Baile Imperial París 2019
A nice set of photos has been shared in this online magazine about the Bal Imperial I attended back in October by suroesteonline. I spy…Robin and I make little cameo appearances in the background....
2019 Bal Imperial- Paris, France
For my birthday this year, and in honor of Queen Victoria’s 200th anniversary, my best friend Robin and I took a trip to Paris by way of Germany first. But I will circle back...
Queen Victoria 200th Anniversary in Paris, France
An opportunity arose to attend this wonderful Victorian ball with my best friend. We invited our dance partners, two years running, whom we met in Venice, Italy during carnivale a few years ago. I...
Inspiration- Minty goodness
I’ve picked my gown fabric for Versailles. This is not going to be made rush by any means. I have already started designing the fly fringe and gown and wish to really savor building...
Mommy’s little helper- Paige
View this post on Instagram Happy International Cat day. @paigelcat has approved my new minty fabric from @anacronicos_vestirenpasado as her new bed. Cat approved! Ready to steal it back for my dress now. #internationalcatday...
Love Letter – part 2
Love Letter Part 2 by Coltrane Koh I enjoyed being the look-out to keep prying eyes from Julia’s love letter: Coltrane was splendid to work with and I look forward to sharing more of...
On the fringe
I started up working on some of the techniques from Romantic Recollections online Fly fringe class at Teachables. I took Sewtine and Romantic recollections class at Costume college last year. I’ll have to find...
Hairy Bow cape
View this post on Instagram I forgot to wear my braided hair brooch at dickens! Oops. But here it is displayed on my new cape #green #cape #hairbrooch A post shared by Laurie Tavan...
Feather Headdress Fun
Lynn McMasters is my hero and I’m very honored she trusts me to model many of her accessories. This green headdress is a reproduction based of an extant piece from the Museum of Fine...
Upcoming Fan class!
Lynn is offering another fan class coming up in Feb. of next year. I highly recommend taking it. The classes fill up quickly, so make your plans now! Fan class Sign up. Here is...
Recent Reading
View this post on Instagram Christmas Eve reading #queenvictoria #mymistressthequeen #reading #bookshelf A post shared by Laurie Tavan (@laurietavan) on Dec 24, 2018 at 8:47pm PST
Winter Nesting Doll
While having to focus on health and healing (read: much less historical sewing), I’ve slowly accumulated a vintage and reproduction vintage wardrobe over the past two years. It has been a fun adventure and...
December is here and time to turn your calendar page:
View this post on Instagram Time to turn to the last page of my 2018 Calendar wearing @creationsbylivfree and @laurietavan ?? if you liked this one you will love my 2019 one, since is...
