Victorian

On the heels of twenties, fifties, and sixties, the final "era" challenge was "Victorian." Which is pretty broad. Anything that happened, or any pattern that would have possibly been used, for the whole time period. To put it in perspective, imagine it were shifted 100 years later - so you could use anything from 1937 to 2001 as inspiration. You could make basically anything fit! (Spoonflower did specify that we couldn't use any public domain imagery - i.e. you couldn't just goink a pattern or collage images from an online archive - but that's pretty hard to enforce)

I was thinking of doing silhouettes of how women's fashion changed during that time, because it's a little funny - leg-o-mutton sleeves and bustles each came into fashion TWICE - but I didn't have enough time for that much detail. I went right to the source of the name and made a design based on the crown Queen Victoria wore for her coronation.



This went nowhere in the voting. There were of course a lot of William Morris type designs, of which this strawberry one was my favorite. I also liked this red floral.