Silk Garters Blog
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Sewing for me 🙂
I've decided to start sewing again for me... I always used to make my own clothes, (if you've read the about us page, you'll see I was handmaking my clothes age 12) but looking back, the last major project I made was my wedding dress. When I took on the shop I used to...
A Unique Pair of Fabulous Edwardian Garters c1910
This is an unusual pair of French Edwardian silk garters C1910 possibly earlier… Elastic would have been fairly new and in this photo you can see the flat elastic just showing proud of the stitched ribbon (at the black wood of the mannequin’s neck) Looking at the back...
Amazing and Rare Antique Silk Painted Pair of Garters, Birds Flowers – English 1780
“An exquisite pair of yellow silk garters dating to about 1780. These would have probably been wedding garters.” The painted design is delightful showing two love birds on a green nest on a sky blue oval ground edged in a raised gold border stitch. To left and...
Valentines Day Traditions, Engagements, Weddings and Romance
Valentines day is THE time of year for romance and is the most popular time of year for marriage proposals… It’s also a popular date for a wedding with February 14th having 70% more weddings than the surrounding dates Endless Love Wedding Garter Traditionally men do...
Fabulously Funny and Highly Recommended with a Blue Garter Too
Review from Heat “ We spat out our drinks laughing…It’s fun and frivolous – we liked it a lot” I’ve read most of the Sophie Kinsella ‘Shopaholic’ series, they’re a fabulously funny read, where the well meaning heroine Becky Brandon seems to go from one scrape to...
Lace Wedding Garters… You Can Have Princess Diana’s Lace!
The whole world stopped for the fairy tale wedding of Lady Diana Spencer to Prince Charles... And now you can have a gorgeous garter, made with this special 'royal' lace! Full of romance, her silk ball gown 'princess' dress, took over 40 yards of hand woven...
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Kirsty’s dalmatian garter in Vegas
Black and white Dalmatian garter
Clive Seeing Em’s Wedding Garter for the first time
This is just so lovely…you can see him thinking, you had that design made in my regiment colours!
Sophie Kinsella Blue Wedding Garters
