Updated Tags

A little while ago, I thought I should revamp my tags to be a bit more useful.  So that's been an ongoing project.  Here's what I've done. 

"Historical" is history

The tag Historical was too broad because it encompassed history lessons and tidbits, historical costumes, and historical inspired modern clothes.  Plus, everything from the dawn of time to yesterday is technically historical.  So I went through everything with that tag and replaced it with one of the following, more specific, tags:

• Antique - This tag is more about material culture and artifacts (like the 1909 Home Needlework Magazine) than is is about my sewing projects.  After all, if I make a historical costume, that is not an antique.  An antique is an item at least 100 years old.  There are some things from the 1920's that aren't quite 100 years old, but they are almost there, and they fit better in the Antique category than anywhere else, so I put them there. 
  
• History - Posts with research, history lessons, and tidbits, like the Colbertism & Needlelace essay. 
  
• Vintage - This tag covers true vintage clothes and vintage-inspired sewing projects.  I'm defining "Vintage" as from the 1920's through the 1960's. 
  
• Retro - For patterns from the more recent past, i.e. the 1970's, 80's and possibly 90's.  (I grew up in the nineties, so it doesn't feel "retro" to me, but who knows what kind tadpoles frequent this blog?)  Since I buy a lot of sewing patterns from thrift stores, I have a bunch of "retro" stuff without seeking it out. 
  
• 1910's - Because I have enough projects from that time to make a tag!  It's annoying that that time period doesn't have a good label... "The Teens" is not century-specific, "Titanic Era" too narrow, and "Edwardian" too broad. 
  
• Regency - Same rationale as the 1910's tag: I have a few about that time period, and it's something people might search for, so I tagged it. 
  
• Modern Elizabethan - All posts related to my Modern Elizabethan Project. 
  

"Project Diary" Problematic

The Project Diary tag was originally meant to distinguish between posts where I simply showed a finished product (not a diary!) and posts where I did a step-by-step walk-through of making it (diary!).  I no longer care about that distinction, and I doubt my readers ever did.  So I went through all those posts and filed them according to era or one of the following:

• Self-Made Pattern - for patterns I made myself, either by draping, reverse engineering, or drafting.
  
• Other Sewing - for miscellaneous sewing, modern clothes, and tutorials on technique. 
  

Other New Tags

Added the following:

• Dyeing - for my silk scarf stuff
  
• Embroidery - because it's not the same as plain hand-sewing
  
• Terminology - for those posts where I talk about etymology, the differences between terms, labels, or other nomenclature. 
  

Deleted Tags

• Historical - explained above
• Project Diary - explained above
• Stash Busting - Like Project Diary, it was too broad: most of my sewing is from stash.