Royal Wedding: Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress

Royal Wedding: Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress – was created by Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton and it was fit for a queen to be. See our previous article entitled Alexander Mcqueen’s Successor Designing Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress. Its exquisite hand-embroidered and appliquéd lace, and emphasis on ‘best of British’ materials promotes the nation’s skills, while the classic and graceful lines could have been inspired by the more romantic style of Princess Grace.

Royal Wedding: Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress – The lace appliqué for the bodice and skirt was hand-made by the Royal School of Needlework, based at Hampton Court Palace. The lace design was hand-engineered (appliquéd) using the Carrickmacross lace-making technique, which originated in Ireland in the 1820s. Individual flowers have been hand-cut from lace and hand-engineered onto ivory silk tulle to create a unique and organic design, which incorporates the rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock.

Hand-cut English lace and French Chantilly lace has been used throughout the bodice and skirt, and has been used for the underskirt trim. With laces coming from different sources, much care was taken to ensure that each flower was the same colour. The whole process was overseen and put together by hand by Ms Burton and her team.