A Silk Sacque - Kirsten Hammerstrom

A Silk Sacque/Clothing/History/making things

Short Stuff

Posted on June 11, 2026 by kittycalash

At some point, I came across The Charlatan by Léonard Defrance, sold by Sotheby’s in 2023, and became obsessed with the woman in grey and her problematic calash...

A Silk Sacque

Hips Do Lie

Posted on February 12, 2024 by kittycalash

Nine years ago, I made a pair of hip pads to go under the unfinished cross-barred sacque. This time around, I thought I should make the more common hoops or poc...

A Silk Sacque/making things

Sacques-Piration

Posted on February 12, 2024 by kittycalash

Once upon a time, I fell in love with cross-barred sacques. The style appealed to me for the way it combined a high-style 18th-century feminine form (the sacque...

A Silk Sacque/Clothing/making things/Reenacting

So Hip

Posted on January 2, 2014 by kittycalash

I don’t always feel the need to enhance my anatomy; in fact, I rarely do, but then I started on the sacque. Ah, the sacque. I nearly abandoned the whole busines...