Laura Basevi

🪡Sustainable fashion label
🪡Reinventing beautiful vintage textiles
🪡One-of-a-kind
🪡Bespoke

04/11/2026

🪡 Unpicking the boning from this lace dress today to salvage the lace I got quite excited that the boning was made from Whalebone but after closer inspection I have found it to be featherbone boning made from turkey feathers! Dating the dress somewhere between 1883 -1910 (scroll for pics).

🪡 Invented by Edward K Warren the lightweight boning was made from shredded turkey feathers quills and woven with thread using a herringbone stitch, then sewn directly into the garment. Such a brilliant idea (and using a waste product) and you can see how lightweight it would be to wear and have the right amount of flexibility and comfort for the wearer.

🪡 Thought I would share as I find this kind of thing fascinating! ♡

19/10/2026

🪡 I finished this beauty today, many hours of beading the beautiful Moths by Abbie Walsh | Hand Embroidery using vintage and deadstock beads. They really are so special. I had to find the most perfect vintage block prints to compliment them and the black velvet bodice. In love ♡ 🦋

Love our little labels 🥰

25/09/2026

🪡 We stumbled across this fabric on a girls weekend a couple of years ago in Surrey, walking in the countryside (probably with serious hangover's!) we found this gem of a charity shop Cancer Research UK where most of us bought something and I discovered this fabric, the bag was so heavy everyone took turns in carrying it the long schlep back to the hotel! ♡ fun times!
Sophie Maxwell Zoe Turner Ａｂｉｌｕ　Ｃｒｅａｔｉｏｎｓ Becky Reynolds carol wiseman

Believe it or not this fur trim is not real, although it looks so real! Kindly gifted to me by Sunbird Vintage Finds
So grateful for your eye Paula👁 ♡

16/07/2026

15/07/2026

🪡 Angel sleeve crochet dress cut from vintage textiles. Now Sold. DM to be notified about new one-of-a-kind crochet dresses ♡

18/06/2026

🪡 Some pieces are hard to part with ♡NEW

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