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Base Lighting

Setting up the newly purchased set of bronze up-shiners, providing the home-base with strong, yet diffused lighting -ideal for working day or night- which can easily be dimmed down to uphold a homey atmosphere.

Studio lighting equipment

Through a Stretch

How to draw a full ruffle sleeve patternRuffled armhole pattern.

Combining sequential polling with interpolation methods for copying and horizontally stretching previously drawn patterns to 2.4 times their original size; gathering sufficient girth in order to incorporate in-stitched ruffles all throughout the blouse’s body and sleeves, bringing it’s dimensions back to the original pattern.

Blouson Rouge

astretch-velvet red ruffle goth shirtgothic raglan backside blouseLongsleeve blouse with ruffle trimmed seams

A raglan-cut stretchy longsleeve bolstering rising seams that are worked in to its carmine velveteen, adding tailoring while including a ruffle-tape trim, accentuating the formed shapes, mimicking those of the Red Shirt.

Proceedings:
Design  –  Textile  –  Patterns  –  Methodism  –  Trim  –  Revision  –  Finishing

Multifarious Grain

In striving to make every garment a unique conception, I aim to never use the same fabric twice, meaning that to this point each of the crêpe-satins making up my shirts were commissioned from different suppliers in order to instantly bestow each design with a certain individuality, not just in color, but also in granularity, compound, weight, drop and texture; each and all significant factors that establish the eventuall outcome.

polyester crepe-satin with obvious and less obvious grain patterns

Two shirts; Two Patterns

gothic tailored blouse patterngothic ruffle blouse pattern

Even though they follow the same body-measurements, the base patterns for these two secondary blouses are individually drawn as they immediately need to account for the small details in coupe that make up great differences in fit and shape; having one of these blouses being tightly tailored and the other wide in flow as two back-to-back productions I am now allowing myself to fully extrapolate on which details make up a look.

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