Well done everyone involved making them they look amazing!

After seeing Fen's and Keri's final patterns for their costumes, I thought it best to incorporate similar patterns into Mrs and Mrs Jaffeth's costumes to finalize them. I cannot decide which colours I like best on the characters, so again, I put up both options. :) Jaffeth was apparently the ancestor of the Mediterranean people and some of their ancient patterns were fairly similar to Arabic patterns as well.  

Fen Barr - Mr and Mrs Noah Final Designs

Noah and His Wife - Final Designs 

I played with colours and patterns, altering the colours of stained glass windows to look like arabic fabrics, I really like what Keri has done with similar patterns in her designs. I toned down the colours in the tunics so Mr ad Mrs Noah matched one another better. I liked Steph's idea of the tunic/maxi and think possibly the same (or similar) patterns in different colours/fabrics could could work for most of the characters. I personally like the married women with covered heads, like in Keri's drawings as it's a bit more accurate to the geography and time period. 

 I chose to go warmer in General with Noah and his wife picking out some contrasting colours within the patterns of some of the items of clothing so at a distance they look almost one colour but close up it can be seen that it is made up of lost of different colours. I kept the heavy feel of the cloths and think scarves and drapes could be made from adapted pashminas etc. as the intricate patters may be too hard to create. 

Some of the patterns I kept the same, more simple patterns. I liked Steph's designs with the splattery dyed fabric and feel I could incorporate similar dye techniques into Noah and his wife. I liked the pink on noah with the gold concentric circles, which remind me of ripples on water, and the red with gold glowy dots for Mrs Noah. 

I think these may work in batik but could work better painted in bleach onto the fabric. I think a fabric with a sheen would look really good something silky but stiff and opaque such as a rayon to give an almost metallic texture to them adding to the heavy/solid nature of the costumes of Noah and his wife to contrast with some of the other characters who wear more floaty fabrics. 

Noye's Fludde: Final designs

Noye's Fludde: Colours Development

These are some colour developments. I didn't focus much on the patterns here because I intended to choose the strongest design and then apply the pattern to this design afterwards.

Noye's Fludde: Sketches/ Costume Development

To begin with I had several different ideas of styles for Ham's costume. The influence from the photographs I posted earlier can be seen in the costumes shapes, such as the rounded arches found in design 1, and the shape of the Moroccan style doorway in design 7. All designs, although it cannot be seen, would have hoods on the back. I liked the idea of having two layers in the costume, so a quite plain looking dress beneath a more detailed shawl-like garment over the top. In the designs where the shawl is one shouldered, the hood would have to be attached to the dress beneath, however in designs 3 and 7, the hoods are attached to the garment on top.

Since we were missing a person to do Jaffeth and his wife, I made some initial ideas and experimented with colours, it would be nice for Fen's pattern ideas to be incorporated into the coats and shawls. If people have other ideas or have developed something different for the brothers and their wives then that's fine we can use that instead. Feel free to take ideas or colours to develop them seeing as I didn't spend too much time researching Jaffeth, I just wanted to try and use the images of Noah and Jem we had already and to try and get the characters to be incorporated into the family.