Earlier this year I made a mauve wool 1910s wrap cape using the free pattern from American Duchess. I’m happy to see so many other people making it! The cape even has its own Instagram hash…

As a creative person, I do live in the modern world, and maintaining blogs for multiple time frames is exhausting at best. Going forward the first Monday of the month will be "Modern Monday" and I will post about a project from after the 16th century. Our first project is my American Duchess Patreon Cape ca 1910. To help fight the covid 19 boredom the awesome folks at American Duchess made the cape pattern free on their Patreon page (link at bottom). Their Patreon members have access to…

This was a totally unplanned project, but with events postponed and weekends freed up, I figured I could spend some time on something like this! American Duchess posted the pattern for this 1912 ca…

Like most folks who do historical costuming (or any sewing) on the internet, you may have heard of the free American Duchess Cape pattern. I volunteered to host a sewalong on TarValon.net for this …

Okay, I found out about the free 1910 wrap cape pattern from American duchess ...and fortunatly I did find the right fabric in my stash...and trimming...and matching outfit... Once all was finished I took my cape out to walk the dog...it is really lovely to wear and my dear friend and photographer Dorothé Straßburger did take some photos. This all took place nearly a month ago...but it made me give my blog a makeover... Cape handsewn, skirt, shirtwaist, waistcoat, hat and shoes thrifted…

Click Here for the pattern Howdy! Since we put our Patreon to sleep, we needed to find a new place to host the #ADCapeCult 1910s Wrap Cape pattern. So it's going to be in the

Cloak late 18th century The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Of course, my cape looks nothing like this... I'm off and running on my Williamsburg accessories. Feeling good about the muff, I jumped into making a cloak...something simple, easy, quick, right? Uh, no. I followed the diagrams in

Recently American Duchess released a gorgeous 1910’s cape pattern. It’s a lovely wrap front semi-structured cape. I’ve loved seeing all the different versions on the #ADCapeCult I…