Phantom Masquerade

This Tutu is one of my assessment pieces for the course I am just finishing - City and Guilds Historical Heirlooms - machine Embroidery.  My proposal was to create a tutu costume to be worn in the masquerade ball of Phantom of the Opera.  It is made from a variety of fabrics including hessian, scrim and cotton, all of which I have dyed myself.  The piece was then put together and distressed by splashing with coffee, singeing over a naked flame and then putting under the grill!!  If you would like more information about this piece please contact me. (better photos to follow after the finals exhibition in July 2008).

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Across the Centuries..

This is my first piece of creative textile wearable art.  It is a Stay (a pair of stays is laced both back and front ie two pieces, but this is a single piece therefore called a Stay).  

The three elements... stretching the bounds of art across the centuries....

- The pattern is 18th Century,

- The design - my own original picture of the head of Nefertari (Egyptian) and

- The whole - the fabric was created using small pieces of fabric completely covered with my design using the Pfaff 2170 computerised machine.

  Stay front

   Stay back