Elsa inspired mantua

Finally, I’ve started to get back to projects. I really need something with no rules, and makes use of two very pretty but modern fabrics, a shot blue taffeta and a heavy fully sequined lace. It was very hard to decide between my two designs. My few rules are it does stick to historic cut, and to use up all of both fabrics. 4m of the lace, I think it was 9m of the blue.

Deciding to go all in on an early Mantua by pinning my lace the full width? Wow.

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Now that is a statement, but just how much of my lace should I use? There are 6 rows, the skirt has a 3m hem.

I think I can use the Welsh Mantua as I can use as much lace as possible on the petticoat and ignore the “train” which will help me make the most use of the fabric- 4 rows on the underskirt, leave 2 rows for robings. https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/e2ce99c3-462b-3da3-af0a-953e4f94008d/Dress/footer/

I started adding all of my references but I think I should do that over a few posts so I can focus on each properly.