Description
Practical, protective and often decorative, quilted garments could be worn all over the body. From the essential layer of defensive padded jacks of the fourteenth century, quilting developed to shape the fashionable doublets of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Quilted layers, often hidden, could exaggerate and enhance, or correct body shape.
This course looks at the many varied padding and quilting methods and materials seen in surviving examples of garments worn by men, women and sometimes animals.
Students will work examples of the various techniques in appropriate materials.
TUTOR – Claire Thornton
1-Day Course – SATURDAY 11th OCTOBER 2025
£125 full price / £85 concession price
10am to 6pm – with a vegetarian lunch and drinks included.
The course will take place at The School of Historical Dress, 52 Lambeth Road, London, SE1 7PP.
Places are non-refundable unless we can re-sell your place. This is the only way we can keep our class sizes small to give each student enough tuition (6 to 8 students per class).
