I was thinking about the 1910 Ophelia and The Crystal Ball dresses. Most of them are a very similar cut, so once we have a pattern sorted out making multiples shouldn't be too difficult. What I like about them is they all have interesting detailing that's clearly painted on - by the way the fabric drapes you can see it's paint in Ophelia - and embellished with embroidery and jewels as in TCB. TCB looks to me like silk velvet, whereas Ophelia/1910 is a shot lavender taffeta with painted hems and a silk underdress, but essentially they are the same garment with different embellishments.
Meanwhile The Magic Circle has a whole battle scene across it, like something taken from a Greek vase - this of course has fantastic poetic ramifications as well a) justification (if such was needed) to go sketching in the BM for source images and b) a marvellous excuse to have fun with silk and paint.
I bought a book on indigo dyeing yesterday. I've done shibori and indigo dyeing just the once, but some combinations of the effects you can get, using silk rather than cotton would make up beautifully for something like Circe Invidiosa which of course goes back to the draped chiton of EDM...
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Re: Waterhouse II
on 2007-05-27 11:45 am (UTC)Meanwhile The Magic Circle has a whole battle scene across it, like something taken from a Greek vase - this of course has fantastic poetic ramifications as well a) justification (if such was needed) to go sketching in the BM for source images and b) a marvellous excuse to have fun with silk and paint.
I bought a book on indigo dyeing yesterday. I've done shibori and indigo dyeing just the once, but some combinations of the effects you can get, using silk rather than cotton would make up beautifully for something like Circe Invidiosa which of course goes back to the draped chiton of EDM...