Mar 11, 2014
Another embroidery sample arrived from India on Friday (left, seen against my own embroidery). As I compared it to the photos of the original dress in the museum, something began to dawn on me. Isn’t it funny how you can look at a thing for years and assume it...
Jan 17, 2014
Earlier in the week, we reached a moment of truth that I’ve been anticipating ever since September 2012, when I realised that India was my best bet for realising my Peacock Dress dream. The quote for the embroidery, by far the most expensive and complex part of...
Jan 10, 2014
Photos of the sample have arrived from Indian Embroiderer MkII, and it’s near-as-dammit perfect! I love that not only do the two photos below represent a very, very good approximation of the Peacock Dress itself, but that they also look like pictures I could...
Jan 4, 2014
The reason that the Peacock Dress was always a joke, and the reason I pledged to go ahead and do it anyway if my blog readers sent me to Haiti, was because it was obviously a maddeningly complex project. It teased me from inside the glass case: “Betcha...