Back in April a friend of mine (who just happens to be the tenant at a 17th century castle close by) asked if I would like to put some of my costumes on display.
Would I?
Of course 🙂
We discussed back and forth for a while which ones to choose.
Then the planes got put on hold both due to our massive workload and due to the upcoming birth of my child.
In end of June we resumed the planing, and decided a date for her to come and collect the outfits.
So the day before, I went down in the basement and located all the bits and pieces for the 4 chosen costumes.
Then I got to work mending and ironing everything to get them all to look their best.
It’s hard work ironing 4 m of train.
Collected outfits – sorted, ironed and ready to ship.
I also lend her my dress-forms.
The castle Ekenäs is a museum with several different styles of interior decoration (from 17th century until early 20th century), and we wanted the costumes to represent a wide variety of times/people. Or at least as much of a variety you can get with only 4-5 shown pieces.
Here are the ones we choose:
Displayed in the dining hall next to the old piano and beautiful set dining room table.
Displayed in the living-room
Also displayed in the living-room
Displayed in one of the bedrooms
Displayed in one of the master bedrooms
I went to visit the Castle the other day, and got to look at my costumes the way the other visitors did. It was quite fun to watch old ladies and children alike photograph and point at my dresses.
And I must say, they really added something to the room and their exhibitions.
It is bringing life in the museum. Very nice and good idea.
Wow, you’re so lucky! 0.0 That’s awesome that your work got put on display in a historical castle, of all places!
Yeah! Sometimes it´s all about knowing the right people 😉
I love this so much!!! How fabulous. I liked that you posted the pictures of you wearing the clothing first and then showed them in the museum on display – really neat to see how different they look. Tell your friend super great idea. 🙂
Congratulations on your achievements. I wish you could have displayed all of your beautiful work. Now that you are making children’s clothes, you’ll have to be on the lookout for dolls that can wear the outgrown styles – such as the shirt and biggin from the next post!