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From blog Dixie DIY
Recreation of an 1815 Norwegian Wedding Dress
This costume project was a big one I finished earlier in the year and made a video about it here .
The dress is a recreation of this gown from a Norwegian museum . Dated to 1815, the gown is part of a collection of “bridal attire” including a pair of green shoes and an orange shawl. But the reason I really wanted to make it was because it had a pattern! Sort of. The listing included a hand-drawn image of the bodice pieces with no sense of scale but it was enough to get me started.
Once I started playing with the pattern I noticed that it wasn’t a perfect replica of the gown. The biggest issue was the straps –...
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