Jenny Adin-Christie, an embroiderer who worked on Kate’s dress demonstrates the technique, although the fabric shown here is not that of the princess’s dress.
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4. Kate Middleton had her final dress fitting the day before her wedding
As he says Chloe Savage, one of the embroiderers of the dress, a People«Kate did her final test, in Sarah Burton’s atelier, on the morning of the day before her wedding». It was the definitive appointment, the one where every detail had to be checked and examined meticulously given that the next day the dress would be before the eyes of the world. “We were all sitting in the study around nine, waiting for the dress to come back with the latest changes to make». Changes which, as Savage still states, are fortunately for her and for the rest of the world team of 50 people who worked on the dress were very few.
Kate Middleton at the entrance to the Abbey
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5. The dress was completed the night before the wedding
«We finished the dress around 9pmbut until around 10pm we had to fix the shoe laces” Chloe Savage tells us again People. «Around 10pm, Sarah Burton made her final inspection, then we carefully packaged everything and delivered the dress to the boy in charge of escorting Kate’s dress» The wedding dress was ready.
6. Suit tailors had to maintain secrecy
As you read above Hello, the embroiderer Mandy Ewing, part of the team that created the dress, told how she and her other colleagues had to maintain absolute confidentiality during the days of processing. «We knew who the dress was for, but it was a secret. We had net curtains drawn, the cleaners couldn’t enter the room and the code on the door had been changed. The suit was all over the newspapers, but no one knew who was doing it.” Nobody could say anything, not even to his family, as also confirmed by Chloe Savage who, always at People, she told how she revealed everything to her daughter only on the day of the royal wedding: “She didn’t know what I was doing for months and she was very excited when I told her that her mother had dressed a princess.”
7. The individual lace flowers were cut by hand
The lace appliqué for the bodice and skirt was handmade by members (comprising tutors, former staff, graduates, students – the youngest at the time was 19) of the Royal School of NeedleworkEnglish school of hand embroidery based in Hampton Court Palace, through the Carrickmacross lace making techniqueborn in Ireland in the 1820s. The individual flowers that make up the plot they were cut by hand from the lace, to then be pinned and positioned with absolute precision, always by hand, onto ivory silk tulle to create a unique and organic design. With laces sourced from other fabrics, sourced and supplied by Burton-selected British companies, great care has been taken to ensure that every flower was the same color.
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