Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Behind the Scenes: Hand painting fabric in the costume shop

Rachel Pollock, Costume Crafts Artisan for PlayMakers Repertory Company, and her assistant Katie Keener, hand painted the fabric used to create the glamorous biased cut evening dress worn by Julie Fishell, who plays Amanda in PlayMakers’ production of Noel Coward’s classic Private Lives.

To learn more about the painting process, check out Rachel’s online journal, http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/.

Here is a video of Rachel and Katie working on the fabric.