More examples of First Holy Communion Dresses.
Ella's dress is a very fine cotton lawn, with pintuck and insertion lace embellishments.
Ella's veil has an embroidered Eucharistic motif
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Ella on her big day!
(Courtesy of Alison Girone photography
https://www.gphotographyandfilms.com/)
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| Doffy's dress in embroidered cotton, with broderie anglaise trim. |
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| Doffy's veil |
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| Samantha's broderie anglaise dress, with flounced cuffs, broderie anglaise trim and ties. |
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Brigid's paisley embroidered cotton voile dress
with peter pan collar, broderie anglaise trim
and long sleeves with cuffs.
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| Brigid's veil with embroidered edging and embroidered lace eucharistic motif |
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| A beautifully traditional dress with collar and cuffs. |
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| Brigid enjoying her day! |
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Guinevere's broderie anglaise dress,
with broderie anglaise lace trim around yoke, cuffs
and waistband, with ribbon ties. |
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| Close up of the yoke trim which has cross and rose motifs. |
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| Veil for Guinevere with mantilla lace edging interspersed with lace edging motifs. It also has a eucharistic motif and virgin and child motifs made from lace embroidery. |
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| Cecilia's |
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| Beautiful heart-shaped glass button to finish the neck edge. |
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| Anne's dress in embroidered cotton. |
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| Holly's broderie anglaise dress, with matching trim at cuffs and waistband. |
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Louise's dress is of dotted swiss fabric,
with broderie anglaise trim.
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| Lucy's dress is of floral embroidered cotton voile, with broderie anglaise trim. |
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| Francesca & Madalyn's dresses are of embroidered polyester voile with cotton broderie anglaise trim. |
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| Sabina's dress is made from cotton, with a cotton lace overlay. It will be worn by her 3 sisters in turn. |
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| One down, two to go! |
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Embroidered Polyester Voile, with a cotton lining. |
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| Bernadette's Empire style (High waisted) pure cotton broderie anglaise dress with satin trim. |
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| The hemline was painstakingly finished around the design of the flowers - it's a good job this dress wasn't too full! |
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| Bernadette felt that she "looked like an angel" when she tried it on, I think I agree! |
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| Mantilla veil with cross made for Abigail. |
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| Alice's mantilla was made to match her beautiful First Communion dress which had been made for her mother by her grandmother - it's nice to see how well broderie anglaise dresses can last! |
Was googling “medieval embroidery” whilst looking for examples to use as reference for one of my illustrations, when low and behold! your blogspot popped up! Consequently, I’ve spent WAY too much time looking at all the lovely things that you’ve made LOL! I’d better get back to work!
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