Belts / Girdles

Belts / Girdles, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

These are the Elizabethan belts I've made. The large tassle ones is based on images from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the fringe one from various images on monuments from churches and the plain one also on church monuments.

I've gone looking for the image that I based the big tassles on and I can't find it!! I know I based it on a period image, and I could've sworn it was the COT, but I can't find the image now. Damn and blast! It will drive me mad until I do.

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Belt

Worked on the belt today. It's black georgette cut into long strips. I've overlocked it into a tube. After turning under the hems, I've sewn into place two medium sized black rayon furnishing tassles. I know it sounds tacky, but they look just like the tassles in the drawing I am basing the coat on. And the added weight will make them hang nicely.

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