Commisions taken, and pieces available to hire for displays. Some examples. (114)
Both of these outfits are available to hire (for exhibition purposes only) please contact us for further info.
Here are a couple more of our wonderful examples, seen here are a couple of reproductions based on the portraits of Queen Elizabeth 1st from her phoenix portrait, and the red gown is from a very famous portrait of Princess Elizabeth. Please click on the image to zoom in and read more about these wonderful reproductions. All items here can be purchased from us at Farthingale.
The black gown based on the Phoenix portrait of Queen Elizabeth, is entirely hand embroidered in gold thread in what we believe to be the original design, and decorated with somewhere in the region of one thousand pearls also decorated with jewels, and slashes of fabric across the body and sleeves. All of the undergarments are authentic to the date having a hooped Farthingale petticoat made from cotton calico, also a boned corset with a wooden busk in the front to give the typical shape from this era. And also the padded bum role.
The red Princess Elizabeth dress is made from English pure silk damask and a again made up in the true Tudor style the typical bodice shape and heavy gathers running through the back of the skirt, again with all the correct underwear pieces.
Both of these dresses are available to hire for the purposes of exhibitions only, please contact us for further info.
Pictured here in the guildhall Bath alongside Queen Elizabeth the 1st actual (original) charter as signed by her for the City we were kindly allowed to use this by the Bath archives.
