Last year I made a costume for the queen's ghost in a reimagining of The Three Little Men in the Wood by the Brothers Grimm. I designed the costume myself and it is loosely based on 16th century fashion with elements taken from the 18th century. Whilst the dress itself is not strictly historical, the stomacher was embroidered using traditional techniques. The silver which is embroidered down is actually very fine tubes formed of wire like a spring, these can either be cut as beads and sewn down with a very fine thead through the middle or stretched out into a spiral and couched down in lines. To create the three dimensional effect of the borders embroidery threads are couched down first before the tubes of silver are sewn over the top, the thread underneath push them into a nice curved shape. The sequins were known as spangles and these would have originally been made from real silver stamped out of a sheet but I had to use plastic ones.
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