Textiles of all kinds appear in these posts and this week it’s all about the 1950s. Each year, Beamish Open Air Museum (which is just a few miles down the road from my house) hosts a 1950s weekend. On Saturday, it was sunny and we had visitors staying, so bought our entrance tickets and tookContinueContinue reading “Clothes and dancing from the fifties”
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How to make a ‘King of Hearts’ fancy-dress costume
Many and varied are the requests that come in the ‘Amanda Jane Textiles’ office. It may not, then, surprise you to learn that I was required to make a pantomime costume over the festive season. The wearer was to have a starring role in an adapted version of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and the costume hadContinueContinue reading “How to make a ‘King of Hearts’ fancy-dress costume”
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