Making Antique Inspired Trims for Dresses

Youtube is not just a place for "Charlie Bit Me" or "Annoying Orange" videos, you can find a lot of wonderful tutorials on how to make trims.   Above is a tutorial for making ruched ribbon trim for scrapbooking, but it is wonderful to use as a trim for our antique inspired dresses.

There are a number of tutorials for making continuous bias tape which is great for adding details to a plain dress.   Here's one tutorial:

Here's a great tutorial by Angry Chicken

for applying commercial bias tape to edging:

And here's a video for making prairie points:

 All of these trims can be used in making your antique inspired dresses.
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Withington's to Auction Columbian Doll August 19th

 

 The Columbian doll shown in pictures above and below will be auctioned by Withington's on August 19th. 
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Doll With Multiple Faces

Barb Shillinger has been working on an antique cloth doll, and found in the process that it has many faces underneath.   Visit Barb's blog to read more about this fascinating doll. 




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1865 Dress Made in 3 Parts

Source: mfa.org via Dixie on Pinterest

Isn't this the most scrumptious dress?  Imagine wearing that to a 4th of July party!

Museums often have outstanding antique clothing collections.  This dress is from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Read the museum description of this dress made in three parts.  This outstanding design uses two colors and the extensive use of pattern repetition through the use of trim.

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