I started with the 'Of The Moment' pattern From Cutting Line Designs.
Here is the hand-woven fabric before it was wrapped around the body and over the opposite shoulder.
Eight yards of hand woven fabric by weaver Irene Monroe...study for matching the raised stripe along the shoulder seam, extending into the sleeve cap, pocket detail, and so the stripe would match around the body when the front and back was sewn at the side seam. The ombre color change had to match over the shoulder and onto the sleeve. this process for matching took (on and off) four months.
Different view of the garment on the design table.
Sleeve pattern held in place by weights. Samples of 3 different colors of silk shantung for the garments. Iron on straight stay tape was placed along the inside of the cutting lines. Available in black or white, straight or bias on the website's notions page.
This is another view of the iron on tape along the cutting lines, showing the front, pocket, back and sleeve placement.
The finished garments. The pants are the tapered 'One Seams' in silk shantung lined in China silk, the pink long sleeve top is from 'Stars in Heaven' as is the salmon over top. The neck was lowered and the armscye was bias bound in the same fabric. All the pieces were lined in China Silk.
The hand woven 'Jack/Wrap' is from 'Of the Moment'...as it continued around the back....from center back the running yardage of hand-woven fabric was uninterrupted for almost 4 yards...including 2 feet of knotted fringe. Half of the garment was a jacket and the other half was a shawl.
This shows a close up view of the Hong Kong sleeve bounding and the deconstructed China Silk edge around the 'Jack/Wrap' keeping the edges flat and crisp.