Passion Trews

 Bespoke: A third modern design for Traditions to reveal... and enhance streamline sporty curves...

LoomHeartBeat

We Make... up... can be understood differently according to a mood, a situation or a moment... a person, people, technology, traditions...

            Loom Heart Beat                                               Making Up

MADE UP

 we make up 😍 emotionally, we make up stories👺😡  we enjoy make-up 🤢... one made up verb many meanings...

Creativity and making are best represented by an amazing restoration process: old out of use looms dismantled then reconstructed at The London Cloth Company for amazing wools and linens to take shape just waiting to be made up... by you... making up... creating , a fabulous loop in action?

Hello Inspiration

London never ceases to inspire...

Cut and Made: Once

 A new brand in progress... linking ancient traditions with modern techniques.. and a new achievement: 

first toile fitting: 2.9.22 ::: second cloth fitting: 6.9.22  ::: pickup: 8.9.22

Following the first family tartan gown worn at the Versailles ball, the second masterpiece followed to celebrate an occasion closer to home.

 Slow processes of fit and style start with a master pattern adjusted to fabrics and size, cut as a toile to be fitted, reviewed specifically, then cut into the cloth. Tartan requires specific checks aligning and matching.

The bodice includes 4 layers to be cut: the “self” top layer, backed with cotton stiff fused interlining, two cloth internal layers sandwiching the boning to be linked to self and lining.

Pattern pieces and specifications are key final ingredients to be kept with toile for future reference and further brand development.

Less than a week

 Fashion Challenge... for the launch of a brand... when the lovely cloth from Scotland arrived on a Tuesday... the gown was to be worn a few days later on Saturday at the Versailles Ball...

With a few prior draping sessions time stopped for a few days of therapeutic creative timespace while the dress took shape, constructed with one CF and one CB seam to respect the beauty of the checks and beautiful drape:

Print-in’ works

1- place ink

2- comb up

3- comb down

Seamingly

 Easy... matching historic checks For snug fit

Preparing to Drape a Bodice