Archive for February 2026
Making the Marx-Etzel Trousers from Bog Fashion
For Christmas I received the book Bog Fashion – Re-creating Bronze and Iron Age Fashions by Nicole DeRushie, and it was such an interesting read I finished it in two sittings. The book describes textile finds from bogs and other sources in Northern and Western Europe, and then shows how they might be re-created. Patterns…
Read MoreCelebrating 10 Years of Blogging
Tomorrow The Craft of Clothes blog turns 10! This blog has notched up 462 posts including this one. I thank you all for reading, commenting, lurking, and contributing to this friendly part of the internet. You may be interested in how I came to start a blog. It was a year before The Dressmaker’s Companion…
Read More5 Ways to Wear a Beret
The Louvre Beret is a low or zero waste pattern, first published in TAUKO magazine last year. The copyright has now reverted to me, and the pattern is now in my shop. Please enjoy 25% off for the next month. Louvre has a YouTube sewalong – in the first few minutes I give a little…
Read MoreNew Pattern: Cotton Time Coatigan
Hello All, I have a new zero waste pattern, published in Japan’s Cotton Time magazine. It’s a coatigan – a kind of relaxed coat, combining the structure a coat with the softness of a cardigan. This opportunity arose via Mirai Pattern, who license and translate my zero waste patterns into Japanese. Cotton Time has featured…
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