These pieces were draped and built by Athene Wright to the first mockup stage for the Gothic to Revolution course at UNC Chapel Hill This gown was made…
After completion, each of the three blocks was given to a different milliner to test. As of Kim Fraser proprietor of and creative talent behind of Hatnip Hats…
After repairing both the holes in the scan, I refined the 3D model smoothing out the remaining damage and adding the necessary features to transform the hat model…
I knew when I started my hat block project I wanted to try to use what I learned from the Kim block in a restoration project. One of…
At this point I was ready to make a sleeve and collar mockup. The sleeve is made of muslin and the collar is horsehair canvas. …
This post is called Kim Block: Cutting in Wood. It could just as easily be called Kim Block: In Which Many Mistakes Were Made. The learning curve for…
After spending so much time working on this through a computer screen it was really exciting to finally start cutting. I used a peice of pink foam 24…
After getting such a clean scan of the original hat I was excited to start working on altering the scan into a hat block. To convert my hat…
Last year around this time I was at a thrift store looking for some furniture when I saw a table with a treadle. Being kind of a nerd…
The first step in preparing the jacket facing was to stab stabilize my historically widgey wool by fusing it. I would really prefer to have left the fabric…