Several months ago I came across a wonderful painting, King of the Golden Hall, by Magdalena Katanska. She had done a painting of King Theodan from LOTR, standing with his horse as if they were posing to have their portrait painted....
I thought I'd love to do something like that with my Lawrence and his horse, then have it photographed at our son's movie studio. I imagined that it could be that he was having his portrait painted for the tenth anniversary of his coming to the throne.
Which meant I'd need to make armour for his horse, and I'd need fur trimmed royal robes. I already had the purple robes I'd made two years ago for Lawrence's coronation, but it only had fur down the front edges and not all the way around the bottom.
Which meant I'd need to make armour for his horse, and I'd need fur trimmed royal robes. I already had the purple robes I'd made two years ago for Lawrence's coronation, but it only had fur down the front edges and not all the way around the bottom.
So I started a new one, out of wine red velour this time. Real royal robes are completely lined with fur, but that would be way too thick on such a small scale, so I was only going to do it around the bottom. The further along I got with the new red robe, the more I wished I'd added fur around the bottom of the purple robe, because I really liked that one. Finally it bothered me enough that I picked apart the bottom hem of the purple robe and added a fur edge all the way around it as well. It took forever to hand-stitch the fur and bead both robes. But when I was done I had two royal robes, one for the King, and one for the Queen, and I took some photos...
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