By staying on top of the latest trends in wedding dress design, we ensure that our team members are trained to properly care for even the most intricately designed gowns.
Wearable Muslin
The trouble with muslin, although cheap,is that it does not give and move with you, so what I like to do is to make a wearable muslin.
Simple Paper Dresses
Simple Paper Dresses are so charming! Seeing this girl come home from summer-camp in her delightful bright blue paper dress with ribbons
Killed Paper Clothing
A modest proposal on how clothing might be reborn. You’re not tripping. A photographer snaps a shot of, yes—an actual goat.
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Green Wedding Tips
Giving green: Start with the gift. If the couple signs up with an eco-friendly shop registry or asks for donations to a cause they support in lieu of “stuff,” you’ve got it made.
Green Wedding Tips
Everyone is going green these days and making an effort to be more mindful of the environment. Going green doesn’t have to be just in your daily activities and lifestyle, it can also transcend over into planning or even attending a wedding. With that in mind, we’d like to share an article by our friends from Celebrate Green.
Preparing your paper pattern properly is a must when learning how to make a dress. If you want a professional looking finished garment, make sure you follow our expert’s tips when cutting out the paper pattern and your dress fabric too!
A paper dress can be a fun project for an afternoon. You can also wear a paper dress to a costume party. The process of making a paper dress can take a long time, so have patience. You'll make the bottom first, and then make a top piece to go with it. Once you're finished, you'll have a fun, flowing paper dress to show off.
When I get a new pattern I make it up first in a cheap fabric, especially when I want to make it up in an expensive fabric later. This wearable toile or muslin is made up exactly as you would make up the "real" thing, except you leave out any embellishments and trims so that it is as simple as possible.
I’ve got a bit of a thing at the moment for paper clothing. Not to actually wear, of course – the memory of those giant disposable paper knickers they hand you as you wince your way out of the maternity hospital is still far too vivid for that. No, I’m thinking of the fragile beauty of works like these, and even the current trend for origami dresses which is spreading across Pinterest faster than a bush fire in Summer.
Simple Paper Dresses are so charming! Seeing this girl come home from summer-camp in her delightful bright blue paper dress with ribbons, I was instantly inspired to write to you all about paper dresses here at FineCraftGuild.com
When you make a garment you really ought to make up a muslin first. A muslin is a test garment on which you make any adjustments before transferring them to the pattern for use when making up the real thing. On the muslin, pockets, facings, trimmings ae all left out so that what you are actually making is the shell of the garment with no embellishments.
Everyone is going green these days and making an effort to be more mindful of the environment. Going green doesn’t have to be just in your daily activities and lifestyle, it can also transcend over into planning or even attending a wedding.
