Watching Encanto for the second time in as many days and I’m loving looking at Mirabel’s clothes! It’s all crewel work!
Crewel work is embroidery done with wool yarn instead of floss! It’s raised and often more textured than thread based stuff. Here’s an example off the wikipedia page:
Meanwhile there’s some really nice whitework embroidery on the smocked base of Luisa’s blouse, which i find suits her more subtle elegance, as opposed to Mirabel’s exuberant colours (screaming “notice me” in a family valued for their magical gifts as the only one without”) or Isabela’s very monocoloured and frothy swiss dot and applique lace gown (restrained to what she thinks others desire of her instead of her own interests)
Here’s some whitework embroidery that’s as geometric as Luisa’s (forgive the watermark):
And here’s some 3d applique lace that calls to mind Isabela’s dress:
Ans this is swiss dot! It’s what her cap sleeves are made of!
Meanwhile her new dress seems to be less textured, elegant lace than it is a smooth and high colour thing, because she can finally express herself!
And that’s just with the three sisters! There’s also Abuela’s butterfly chatelaine as the matron of the house, and the fact that Mirabel and Bruno both share the colour green in their glasses and poncho respectively, and that they have the same little curl in the same place on their forehead!
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