Finished Tricia's Inspirational Floral Glove Needlecase and it's connection to Bath

In preparation for techniques I plan to use for the Jane Austen inspired casket, I have been revisiting online classes Dr. Tricia Wilson Nguyen has offered in the span of over a decade.... I am always amazed at the care and details involved in her online classes. One example is the Floral Glove Needlecase which I just completed in the past month. The class was offered in 2010, saved in my stash and I savored every minute I spent recently in its review and completion.

Dr. Nguyen's classes include a background of the historical inspiration for the study, in this case they are gauntlets....the purchased licenses allow students to see actual pieces at the V & A, the Met in NY, MFA in Boston and the Holburne in Bath... Added features, for example, a portion of our kit fee was used to purchase storage boxes to ease in accessing the Holburnes extensive collection of gloves and gauntlets. I learned that professionally embroidered gloves were symbolic exchanged wedding gifts to women who displayed them in their portraits. In contrast are matching sets of hood and gauntlet utilized in falconry, etc.

I have been fortunate to have visited Bath three times and each experience has been spent with a few hours at both the Fashion Museum and the Holburne to get my eye candy fix.....

Below is my Floral Glove Needlecase, an exploration of techniques in silk thread shading, couching goldwork threads, applying spangles/paillettes, ruching silk ribbon, and an experience with gilt lizardine and purls.....all historically accurate techniques in the short lived fashion statement utilized by Glovers...

A view of the work in progress and a close up of the assembly...

 The needlecase interior...... complete with an interior ultrasuede pocket designed to hold a pair of scissors, felt for needles, and three silk lined pockets for gaming chips, lucet and a bodkin...Needless to say the quality of Dr. Nguyen's classes and kits are to die for....

An exhausting day of sightseeing and exploring Bath can be ended with a refreshing ale at a local pub or a stop to the Canary Gin Bar to experience a JA inspired gin cocktail...

Now back to my JA inspired casket to utilize what I have reviewed...