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Cutting it fine... The last couple of days before the Tudor banquet on Saturday, I had to pull out all the stops to get everything finished in time. Yesterday I worked on the braid and pearl embellishments on the bodice, and today I sorted the jewellery and made one or two necessary adjustments…

I spent a considerable amount of time and effort drafting a pattern for the sleeves. I cut one out in old sheeting as a mock-up and tacked it onto the bodice and tried it on. This way I could see what alterations needed to be made. Initially I cut the pattern in the…

Background Two types of hood, or head-dress, were popular during the Tudor period; the gable, or English hood, and the French hood. The gable hood was favoured by Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, and shown worn here in Holbein's portrait of her: The gable hood was also favoured by Henry's first wife,…