I Have been working fairly consistantly on the Celtic dog panel. I am hoping to have a gown finished by June with hand embr
oidered trim around the bottom edge, sleeve ends and collar. This was probably the hardest piece. The front bottom edge of the gown. This is going to be a 12th C gown done in a style popular in Western Europe from the 9th C to at least the 12th C. Examples of this style of gowns are shown in pictures from Germany and France. The outer gown is slightly shorter than the under gown. Therefore the edge of the out gown is protected from the dirt on the ground. This enabled the wearers to have a nicely embroidered pattern around the bottom edge without worry about it being ruined by coming in con
tact with the ground. The dog is a bit dark for the background. I attempted to alleviate some of that unbalanced look by adding the diamonds to add a little weight to the rest of the pattern. The main patterns I see in the 12th C pictures are geometric therefore I made the background part entirely geometric. The back panel of the bottom edge will have the geometric pattern without the dog as a central focus. Often the person shown in the pictures are wearing a mantle over their gown so it is hard to see the neck opening. On the few that you can see the pattern on the bottom edge and neck opening are not the same. In keeping with the style I will make the neck opening a different pattern. I have not yet designed that pattern. It seems to be going fairly quickly though and I have a fairly good chance to have this gown done by June.
oidered trim around the bottom edge, sleeve ends and collar. This was probably the hardest piece. The front bottom edge of the gown. This is going to be a 12th C gown done in a style popular in Western Europe from the 9th C to at least the 12th C. Examples of this style of gowns are shown in pictures from Germany and France. The outer gown is slightly shorter than the under gown. Therefore the edge of the out gown is protected from the dirt on the ground. This enabled the wearers to have a nicely embroidered pattern around the bottom edge without worry about it being ruined by coming in con
tact with the ground. The dog is a bit dark for the background. I attempted to alleviate some of that unbalanced look by adding the diamonds to add a little weight to the rest of the pattern. The main patterns I see in the 12th C pictures are geometric therefore I made the background part entirely geometric. The back panel of the bottom edge will have the geometric pattern without the dog as a central focus. Often the person shown in the pictures are wearing a mantle over their gown so it is hard to see the neck opening. On the few that you can see the pattern on the bottom edge and neck opening are not the same. In keeping with the style I will make the neck opening a different pattern. I have not yet designed that pattern. It seems to be going fairly quickly though and I have a fairly good chance to have this gown done by June.
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