We're recreating the gown worn by Elizabeth I in the rainbow portrait to coincide with the exhibition at Hampton Court Palace, which also features the back to an altar cloth.
The first thing that we would do when we're creating something like this, is to work out all of the items, what we needed to make, and how we would go about starting that.
So the layers would be built up right from the skin upwards, as they would have done traditionally.
We have a team of five people who do the research and the making, and all of the elements.
The various layers you'd have a shift, which would be the closest to the skin, then a set of stays, which aren't currently working on at the moment, a bum pad, which would create the silhouette, along with all of the details, as well.
We've decided to embroider the bodice for this one, as that's what we believe it would have potentially been, and to link it to the bacton using embroidery techniques.
The flowers are tricky to work out what they are.
So we have had a look at all of the flowers that would have existed at the time of Elizabeth I in England and researched those in original and contemporary Elizabethan embroidery.
We're planning to use some gold gold work on the bodice, just to lift and make it a little bit lighter and a bit more sparkly.
And we would be using a type of passing thread that's got a silk core and then some metal wrapped around it.
