This feels like a huge oversight to admit to this late in my costuming career, but I have never made a cosplay project for myself! Since I wrapped (mostly) the enormous Captain Hook undertaking, I thought something low-key and low-stakes would be a good idea, so I landed on the idea of making Yor Briar’sContinue reading “Costume Report: December 5 – 11, 2023”
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Mantua Faker? What sort of thing is that, then?
Hello! I’m Lisa, the mantua-faker, and I am glad that you are here. There are two things I am especially good at: making clothes, and terrible word play. Tl/dr: I like to make clothes, combining historical, vintage and modern styles, materials and techniques. A “mantua-maker” is equivalent to a the profession of “dress-maker”, “mantua” beingContinue reading “Mantua Faker? What sort of thing is that, then?”
