Kickstarter Update: Trims, Frills and Furbelows - only 9 days to go!

Thank you so much for your support of my project - and for getting me so close to my first stretch goal - if you can help spread the word who knows where this project will end! It would be absolutely amazing if it ended up with both an extra chapter and a second book.

As you can see by the table of contents image attached below, there is a lot that will be included in this book, including scale patterns you can use for your own projects. Please let me know of any other trims you would like to see added to this book. Curators in the UK are working with me right now to identify the best garments from their collections to use as examples and I welcome all of your suggestions of other collections to visit.

Remember, as written in the original campaign information, this A4 book will contain

• full-length colour photos of each garment used, 
• high-resolution close-up photos of trims showing front, back and inside the garment showing how it was attached, and 
• step-by-step photographic and written construction tutorials for each trim 

A few extra tiers have been added to the pledges and you now have the chance to add a 2018 Calendar to your rewards.

Many thanks, again, for joining me on this journey!
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1245085016/trims-frills-and-furbelows

Online exhibition - invitation to be involved

At Jane Austen Festival Australia in April 2017 I'll be putting on an exhibition of antique men's and women's Georgian & Regency clothes (a minimum of 20 items). Soon afterwards I hope to launch it as an online exhibition - and that's where I'd like to invite you to be involved in making it bigger and better. Do you collect clothing or accessories from this period? Would you like your items to be part of a global online exhibition? Or do you have computer time and skills you'd like to share helping to get this collection online? Would you like to be able to access a collection where you can click on an image to see close-up interior construction shots? If there is damage a link to conservation methods for repair or storage? Would you like to see links to similar garments online and patterns or books that could be used to make them? Maybe even an online calendar listing events around the world you could wear them to? Can you help write a draft crowdfunding proposal to help cover some of the costs of this project and to self-publish a colour book of the online exhibition?

I'm making a start on this in the next 7-10 days and welcome your support and ideas.

These 1770-90 glazed wool (Calimanco) shoes will be part of the exhibition