After some intensive textile patch-working and hand sewing barnacles, I eventually finished this costume! I am very very happy with it as all of that time I have spent on the textiles work has really paid off! Visually it looks like what Kate wanted, "washed up beach". For the Elders they are meant to look weathered, beachy and very worn. I think this costume definitely communicates that.
I have really enjoyed making this garment and it's inspired me to get back into my textiles again, especially when I consider next years options. I have really missed that element from the course, so it's nice to be creative again. I feel as a practitioner that my strengths really lie in this area, the interpretation and creativity of costume - how you create texture.
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