Making a Victorian Velvet Coat || Come To A Fashion Museum With Me || February 2022 video diary

*** Sign up for free sewing tutorials and a weekly love letter at *** This month, watch me flail around trying to come up with a decent pattern for this Victorian velvet coat... ...and then realise that there’s no better way to figure this out than to go to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in person to look at it up close and personal. Come to the museum with me! *** Book featured: *** Lucy Johnston, “Nineteenth Century Fashion In Detail“ (V&A Publications, 2006) *** Online resources about the coat: *** V&A Collections Record for the coat More about the coat and its context: *** Music *** ’Windflower’ by Franz Gordon ’Inconclusive Results’ by Peter Sandberg ’This Delicate Place’ by Silver Maple ’Life In A Pond’ by Lama House ’Midnight Textures’ by Silver Maple