Behind the scenes of Glass Menagerie!
Jan. 15th, 2009 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseI have a couple of short projects to share for one of our two rep shows, Glass Menagerie.
Glass Menagerie created the genre of the memory play, they say, and our costume designer, Jan Chambers, wanted the costumes to embody the means by which we often embellish our recollections of things. Her concept for this was hand-tinted antique photos, how people used to paint into black-and-white photos to create these gentle washes of color. If you've seen these kinds of photos, they have a weird ethereal quality, sometimes with odd splashes of color that have strange value levels. Here's a link to an example.
A lot of this is going to be suggested in color choices, but in the case of one costume item--a plaid boucle coat with velvet collar and cuffs--we actually painted onto the fabric itself.
left: plain fabric
right: paint sample
Craft assistant Samantha Coles paints the coat with fabric paint.
Here, she's heat-setting it using a muslin press-cloth and industrial iron.
The almost-finished coat awaiting a button and a hem.
Another quick project, this found cloche had a hole in the felt,
which we concealed with a cute period ribbon detail.
Top view, close-up of the ribbon detail.
Tech starts tomorrow on this show! We're almost ready... :)
Glass Menagerie created the genre of the memory play, they say, and our costume designer, Jan Chambers, wanted the costumes to embody the means by which we often embellish our recollections of things. Her concept for this was hand-tinted antique photos, how people used to paint into black-and-white photos to create these gentle washes of color. If you've seen these kinds of photos, they have a weird ethereal quality, sometimes with odd splashes of color that have strange value levels. Here's a link to an example.
A lot of this is going to be suggested in color choices, but in the case of one costume item--a plaid boucle coat with velvet collar and cuffs--we actually painted onto the fabric itself.
left: plain fabric
right: paint sample
Craft assistant Samantha Coles paints the coat with fabric paint.
Here, she's heat-setting it using a muslin press-cloth and industrial iron.
The almost-finished coat awaiting a button and a hem.
Another quick project, this found cloche had a hole in the felt,
which we concealed with a cute period ribbon detail.
Top view, close-up of the ribbon detail.
Tech starts tomorrow on this show! We're almost ready... :)
