Clothing Construction

All clothing tells a story.

See a few of my sewing and textile projects pictured below.

Berry Suit

2024-2025

A woman with hip length hair stands smiling. She is wearing a victorian-style outfit with a rust orange skirt. Her lace blouse is decorated with elaborate red trim.

This complex project is a modified reconstruction of extant traveling suit worn by Marjorie Merriweather Post on her honeymoon (currently held by in Hillwood Museum). This project took more than 500 hours over the course of a year to pattern and hand-sew.

Wool Victorian Walking Skirt

2020

A man holding a woman on a bridge. Both are smiling. The woman is wearing a floor-length victorian-style skirt made from tweed.

This skirt is patterned based off of an original 1895 Victorian walking skirt and hand-sewn using Victorian construction techniques. It has the deepest pockets that I can hide full water bottles in.

Victorian Lace Collar

2021

Lace trim lying on a marble table. One end of the lace is raw, still attached to a small metal crochet hook.

A lace collar I hand-crocheted in a pale green cotton thread using my great-grandmother’s sturdy old crochet hook. I think she’d be proud.

A light pale green lace collar in a victorian turtle neck style is lying flat on a marble table.

Victorian Cycling Suit

2023-2024

A double-breasted victorian lady's vest in sage green with art nouveau soutache decorating the round collar

This vest and split skirt (also popularly referred to in the dress history community as “secret pants”) were handsewn from linen bedsheets and finished with shell buttons and vintage silk soutache.

A pale green ankle-length skirt with buttons running down the center. When they are unbuttoned, the skirt splits into a pair of wide-leg pants.

Victorian Hairwork Jewelry

2024-Present (ongoing)

A hand holds two delicate lace earrings woven from finely tatted hair.

After saving up my own shed hair for months, I create jewelry inspired by Victorian hairwork. The hair is carefully sorted, waxed, and then tatted over a Kumihimo loom.