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Girl with a Pearl Earring | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Girl with a Pearl Earring. The making of The Girl with a Pearl Earring and Samuel Pepys’ costumes:. Recreating Johannes Vermeer’s iconic and enigmatic painting. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Was an irresistible temptation. In fact I had been considering this for some time and had already collected a number of yellow and blue silks that were tucked away safely somewhere in my textiles stash. As is immediately obv...
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Pauline Loven | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Author Archives: Pauline Loven. June 24, 2012. I have just merged my period costume business with my son’s filmmaking business, Crow’s Eye Productions. I now have a new web page and I am gradually transfering the blog to that too. My new costume hire for film and … Continue reading →. Coming soon: more on the making of Mona Lisa’s gown! November 20, 2011. Costume hire for films. September 10, 2011. For more o...
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Period Wardrobe | A blog about recreating period clothes | Page 2
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Newer posts →. Drawings of the Hollytrees Collection. No. 1. September 12, 2010. In the late 1980’s I worked as a volunteer collating the costume collection of the Hollytrees Museum in Colchester. I drew each of the costumes in detail for their information cards (this was in the days before digital cameras and digital data gathering)! No 1: A Titanic Era Gown: 1908-12. The tunic overdress and lining is gather...
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Coming soon: more on the making of Mona Lisa’s gown! | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Copying an Edwardian Photograph for a Crow’s Eye Production Film. New Blog location →. Coming soon: more on the making of Mona Lisa’s gown! November 20, 2011. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. And tagged Costume hire for films. Copying an Edwardian Photograph for a Crow’s Eye Production Film. New Blog location →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). The short ...
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American Gothic | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Re-creating the clothes from American Gothic. American Gothic was painted by Iowan artist Grant Wood in 1930. The painting was inspired by an actual house in Eldon, Iowa which was white painted and built in the ‘Carpenter Gothic’ style of architecture. Interestingly, this beautiful house still stands and is open to the public click here for The American Gothic House Centre. Jessica Strom, the Administrator of...
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Lady of Shalott | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Making The Lady of Shalott’s gowns. The Lady of Shalott themed paintings by John William Waterhouse provided the visual inspiration for the clothes worn by The Lady of Shalott in our dramatisation. In 1888 he painted his first version:. Now we just had to create the clothes. Working on the toile for the gowns. The white dress, ‘The Lady of Shalott’:. Lying, robed in snowy white. A specialist gold-work embroid...
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Mona Lisa | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Re-creating Mona Lisa’s clothes:. I began the process by studying the Mona Lisa portrait (Leonardo da Vinci, Musee de Louvre, Paris, left) and made a number of observations. Lisa is wearing a garment of sheer dark silk which is gathered at the neck and has loose sleeves rolled back at the elbow. It is trimmed at the neck with gold braid or embroidery. I then looked for an explanation of Lisa’s loose outer-gar...
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Copying an Edwardian Photograph for a Crow’s Eye Production Film. | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Coming soon: more on the making of Mona Lisa’s gown! Copying an Edwardian Photograph for a Crow’s Eye Production Film. September 10, 2011. Apart from the two men’s suits, I replicated all of the clothes in this picture from the boy’s wool suits to the girls’ linen sailor dresses and the ladies skirts and blouses. For more on Crow’s Eye Productions. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. You are commenting us...
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April Love | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. Making April Love’s clothes:. Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) (who was a second-generation member of the Pre Raphaelite brotherhood) exhibited his painting April Love (below) at the Royal Academy in 1856. The painting was inspired by another of Tennyson’s poems, The Miller’s Daughter, and was accompanied by the text:. Love is hurt with jar and fret,. Love is made a vague regret,. Eyes with idle tears are set,.
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Films | Period Wardrobe
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A blog about recreating period clothes. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Interview with Pauline Loven. The Orchard House Wardrobe. Is the wardrobe department of. Film companies. OHW has also costumed and number of short and museum films and television programmes. Here are some of our recent co-productions (including short sketches and trailers for longer productions):. Girl with a Pearl Earring 0.36 (Crow’s Eye Productions). American Gothic 0.28 (Crow’s Eye Productions). Life on Church Farm (WAG Screen). Copyi...
