Things may seem a little quiet on the Frock Coats front, but I have been working away very hard lately, sorting out the pattern so that once have sourced the fabrics I am good to go.
I’ve worked up a basic calico test (
see left), essentially just to check the pattern works, but now I want to up my game prior to making it for real.
I’m itching to get started making up the coat, but I’ve been caught out by enthusiasm before, and know that racing into cutting final cloth can be fatal, so to work it out of my system I’m gonna do something a little radical!
Finding a superb supplier for my
felt and woollen fabrics has been an absolute godsend, and their materials are of superb quality at competitive prices.
My favourite fabric out of the whole coat is the purple felt,
Fabric (2) in my
Fabric Breakdown (
see right).
It has a wonderful a richness of colour and weight about it.
So, to properly test myself on construction techniques; to iron out any issues I might find with my pattern; and just for the hell of it make a version of the coat you CAN step out of the front door in, I am going to make one totally in this fabric, using a matching velvet to accent the design.