Before my timed assessment I bought a white sheet of laced fabric to be turned into a veil. I didn't want to leave it white as one of the main features in the book is the decay and age of Miss Havisham's clothes and the room around her. Dickens writes during Pip's first encounter with Miss Havisham, 'I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.' I therefore decided that I would try to make the veil look faded and yellow by soaking it in tea. I used 12 tea bags and soaked them for 15 minutes in a bucket of boiling water. I then removed the tea bags and added the veil into the water. I let the veil soak for and hour, after this hour I washed it in the washing machine to help spin it dry and dull some of the colour down. I think this turned out well as it definitely made the veil more realistic and in keeping with the descriptions in the novel.
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