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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Supplemental: Gina Clark, Tudor Costumier, at the Tudor Summit

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6626 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Gina Clark runs the Tudor Dreams Historic Costumier, and she makes gorgeous, historically authentic gowns for films, and interpretive groups. She spoke with me at the Tudor Summit about all things related to clothing and getting dressed in Tudor Times. I'm already planning the next Tudor Summit in March, 2018, so be sure to go to TudorSummit.com to get more information. In the meantime, if you like this podcast, please leave a rating on iTunes. It's the number one thing you can do to help the show succeed. Thanks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's just start with, why don't you tell me just really briefly kind of like what you do and how you got into doing it?

0:15.0

Okay, what I do. Well, you know that I've got a group, the T Tudors and we go all around the country to

0:23.3

these fabulous houses, it's stately homes and castles and bring history to life at these

0:30.4

places by dressing in the Tudor costume showing I mean it's more for the children

0:36.1

I mean adults love it as well but it's more for the children. I mean, adults love it as well, but it's more for the children to get them interested.

0:41.3

Because if we spark a little bit of interest in a child and make that child want to learn more about the Tudors,

0:48.6

then we've done our job, you know.

0:51.5

So we really enjoy bringing history to life at these places

0:57.4

the great joy also I mean I've always been fascinated with Tudor costume and

1:05.7

Henry that's enough he's revving a car he's I can't believe He's revving a car.

1:11.4

I can't believe he's revving a car.

1:14.2

So, I mean, the Tudor costume,

1:17.4

I've always been fascinated with Tudor costume.

1:20.8

And I've always been sewing.

1:23.3

So I combined the two, my love of history,

1:27.2

my love of the Tudor costume, and then brought

1:30.3

the sewing into it, because I, you know, I do love sewing. I'm not an expert, I wouldn't say,

1:36.3

by any stretch of your imagination. And there's a lot of seamstresses who are magnificent.

1:42.6

But, you know, I've been sewing now for many many years and I take my

1:47.8

patterns from portraiture find it as close to the effort portrait as I possibly can and it you

1:55.9

know my dresses are well I think they're fabulous. Yeah, they are.

2:01.2

I'm so, you know, I've got an exhibition at Barque Castle running at the moment,

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