Class: period pattern tackles Tudor!
Oct. 16th, 2010 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseI've been so busy this semester i've not posted any of the images of the period pattern class projects yet! For shame. But, here's a post to remedy that.
Judy Adamson, head of the Costume Production MFA Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaches a cycle of four period patterning classes. Second and third year graduate students research the appearance and construction of a given era, choose a research image to reproduce, and then create a full-size half-form project replicating their research image. The cycle of period foci goes as follows: 15th-18th Centuries, 19th Century Women’s Wear, 20th Century Women’s Wear, and 19th-21st Century Menswear (tailoring systems). They're doing 15th-18th centuries this semester and the current time period is Tudor.
These projects are then formally presented by the students, who discuss draping and patterning challenges they faced, alterations that they might make to create a costume suitable for stage wear (particularly alternative means of situating openings and closures to accommodate quick changes and the like), understructures and appropriate fabric/fiber choices, and so forth. I always sit in on the presentations if my schedule permits because i love the discussions that pop up from the various projects, and i love seeing the clothes come off the page and onto full-size bodies.
Left to right:
ladies' projects draped by Kaitlin Fara ('12) and Samantha Coles Greaves ('12),
men's projects draped by Claire Fleming ('12) and Shanna I. Parks('11).
Detail view of Kaitlin's research image, sleeves, and pearl trim.
Detail view of Shanna's ruff collar, tiny slashes, and sleeve tabs.
If you want to see more examples of these types of projects, peruse the posts tagged with "class: period patterning"!
Judy Adamson, head of the Costume Production MFA Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaches a cycle of four period patterning classes. Second and third year graduate students research the appearance and construction of a given era, choose a research image to reproduce, and then create a full-size half-form project replicating their research image. The cycle of period foci goes as follows: 15th-18th Centuries, 19th Century Women’s Wear, 20th Century Women’s Wear, and 19th-21st Century Menswear (tailoring systems). They're doing 15th-18th centuries this semester and the current time period is Tudor.
These projects are then formally presented by the students, who discuss draping and patterning challenges they faced, alterations that they might make to create a costume suitable for stage wear (particularly alternative means of situating openings and closures to accommodate quick changes and the like), understructures and appropriate fabric/fiber choices, and so forth. I always sit in on the presentations if my schedule permits because i love the discussions that pop up from the various projects, and i love seeing the clothes come off the page and onto full-size bodies.
Left to right:
ladies' projects draped by Kaitlin Fara ('12) and Samantha Coles Greaves ('12),
men's projects draped by Claire Fleming ('12) and Shanna I. Parks('11).
Detail view of Kaitlin's research image, sleeves, and pearl trim.
Detail view of Shanna's ruff collar, tiny slashes, and sleeve tabs.
If you want to see more examples of these types of projects, peruse the posts tagged with "class: period patterning"!
