Lady's Repository Museum & Diamond K Folk Art

Front Channels completed! Here is a picture of the front of Marguarite's 17th c pair of bodies. I have finished stitching the front s...

THANKYOU Trevette For the AWESOME TIP!!!! Today I got an email from Trevette~ she writes "Rachael, dear, I think you'll find it...

Now I REALLY know why stay~makers were mostly men..... Uggg. My hands are so tired. I stitched 10 channels on Marguarite's pair ...

'maisons à pondalez' I want to live in a Maison a Pondalez in Morlaix.....and gaze down upon my happy children from a staircase like...

HELP!! Have you seen this jacket?? The above jacket is an old black and white of a c16teens embroidered jacket in the Burrell Collection in ...

17th c Bodies.... I am finding 17th c bodies to be deceptively simple in construction. The pattern on Drea Leed's Online Corset gen...

Ink Tests & Final Fabrics for Bodies.... I will be inking my design for Marguarite's jacket by hand, with a metal nib. I'm n...