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I take whatever time each piece needs before it's packed and sent from Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blush-pink-1930s-embroidered-baby-dress","title":"Patient Hands · 1950s Embroidered Blush Baby Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlush cotton lawn · hand whitework in padded satin stitch · pin tucks · hand-rolled picot edge · 1950s · AU 000 · newborn to 3 months\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCotton lawn so fine it is nearly transparent, blush pink and softer still across seven decades, and across the yoke a field of whitework: white thread raised on white cloth, legible only in the way it lifts and shadows the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhitework is the umbrella name for a whole family of white-on-white needlework, Ayrshire work, broderie anglaise, shadow work and Mountmellick among them, and it is among the most demanding embroidery there is: thread and ground share a colour, so there is nowhere for a clumsy stitch to hide. The motifs here are built up in padded satin stitch, the thread laid down first as a foundation and then covered with a second, denser layer so each shape stands slightly proud of the cloth and catches its own small shadow. On christening gowns and best frocks of the 1950s this level of handwork was still an expectation rather than a luxury, worked at home by women, often by lamplight, often for a child they loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo further hand techniques share the dress. Pin tucks run in narrow parallel folds from the yoke, each one creased, stitched and pressed by hand, a method used both to shape a garment without darts and to leave cloth that could be let out as a child grew. The hem and cuffs are finished with a hand-rolled picot edge, the raw edge rolled to a fine cord between the fingers and whipped closed, a finish that survives decades of washing precisely because there is no machine seam in it to fail. Three separate disciplines on one very small dress, each asking something different of the hands that made it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe garment is tiny: made for a newborn, for one occasion, for a photograph that was the whole point. Dresses like this were wrapped in tissue after. 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The technique was revived with great enthusiasm through the 1960s and 1970s, and the women who produced pieces like this were working in a tradition that was already centuries old. The collar and cuffs are finished with a fine picot edge; the back closes with a sash that ties into a bow. Every detail is accounted for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the kind of dress that was made to be photographed, and it still is. The pin-dot print moves beautifully in the skirt, and the smocking gives and returns to shape the way only hand-work does.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44083976536198,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2447copy_ded124a0-1cc3-4c17-997d-e9e2e6d0c52a.jpg?v=1782792857"},{"product_id":"white-1980s-embroidered-baby-dress","title":"Daydream · 1980s Embroidered White Cotton Baby Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhite cotton · hand-embroidered figures, hearts and flowers · flutter sleeves · yellow waist trim · 100% algodón, Spanish-language label · reads 1980s · approx. 6–12 months\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite cotton scattered with small embroidered figures: hearts, a leaf, a little flower, a bird, each one slightly raised where the thread has been worked through from behind, each placed with no particular plan, which is exactly how hand embroidery looks when someone is enjoying themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe care label reads 100% algodón, placing this in the Spanish-speaking world, where embroidered children's clothing is a long domestic tradition and scattered motifs like these are worked at home for one particular child. No machine made these marks. Each was stitched and knotted by hand, and if you look closely you will see that no two are quite the same. 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Soft single jersey cotton, a lap shoulder that eases over a small head without drama, press-stud closures at the crotch. 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Soft cotton jersey, ribbed at the neck and cuffs, a script logo small at the hem. \u003cem\u003eThe Gap \u003c\/em\u003eat its most quietly confident in its children's line: start with a simple garment and give it one thing worth looking at. This butterfly has been given that position and earned it. 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At the edges of the bib: crochet fringe, worked in the same blue as the denim, which is the detail that lifts this from lovely to genuinely considered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBébé by Minihaha\u003c\/em\u003e, the Melbourne label's baby line, 2000s to 2010s. Minihaha was the Australian children's label that understood that a small person's clothes could be beautiful as well as practical, and the \u003cem\u003eBébé\u003c\/em\u003e line carried that sensibility down to the youngest wearers. Crochet trim on denim is a specific choice that takes more patience than most finishing options; someone decided it was worth doing, and it is. 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There is no label, because there is no label on a homemade thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree details make this dress extraordinary. First: a single embroidered rose stitched at the centre front waistband, where only the maker would think to put it. Second: scotty dog buttons at each shoulder strap, chosen with obvious delight. Third: the whole garment has been made from navy floral cotton that someone already had at home and loved enough to use for something. This kind of domestic dressmaking, a whole dress sewn at home for a baby with lace from the notions drawer and embroidery added for the pleasure of it, belongs to a very specific window in women's domestic life. The 1980s and early 1990s were the last period in which this kind of making was widespread. This dress is a small record of that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lace is white and cluny-knotted; the cotton body is clean and the embroidered details are bright. 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There are four separate hand techniques on this one small cardigan: bobble stitch, cable stitch, embroidered rosebuds, and a ribbon closure. Bobble stitch requires you to work five stitches into one and then knit them back together, creating a raised cluster that takes more yarn and more attention than a plain row. Cable stitch requires holding stitches on a spare needle while you work others, crossing them over to create the twist. Embroidered rosebuds are worked in satin stitch after the knitting is complete. Each of these techniques takes practice. Someone did all four of them on a cardigan for a baby, for one occasion. 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