I'd like to try draping Vionnet dresses.

I've never worked with flax in terms of preparing it for spinning, or spinning the yarn. When I used to do hand weaving, I did use linen yarn at times. Now my primary crafts are sewing and dyeing (both almost entirely with natural fibers), and linen is my favorite fabric.

I can't say whether this will continue, but in the past, about once a year, Your Wardrobe Unlock'd offers a free trial subscription for two or three days. They keep all the old articles on the website and just keep adding new, so you can read everything with your trial subscription.

Fran
www.lavoltapress.com

I've always thought the golden age of couture was the Victorian and Edwardian eras . . . but those styles are not as trendy right now as mid-20th-century ones.

Cherlyn, I remember the 1980s with great fondness. I wore Ralph Lauren styles with original Edwardian blouses, petticoats, and drawers. I wore reproduction button shoes and big Edwardian hats. I got to wear all this to work every day (as a senior editor for a book publisher) and it was high style, not offbeat. Now I have to be content with being "boho."

If only I lived in Los Angeles instead of San Francisco!

I've used many historic and vintage sewing patterns of various kinds. I'm not going to participate in this project because I already have many original issues of La Mode Illustree from the 1910s, but right now, not enough time to disentangle, translate instructions, and sew from the pattern sheets that accompany them. But, it's really interesting and encouraging to see so much enthusiasm about this project!