Anita Rutledge

About Anita

Owner/ operator/ CEO at Rutledge Costume Company in Baltimore, Md. Received a Best in Baltimore listing in Baltimore Magazine in '94 Skilled seamstress: sewing since I was 7 and enjoy working with all fabrics. Some pattern drafting. I made hundreds of costumes for my customers at the shop and for theater, music videos, pageants and parades, movies and commercials. Leather work: 10 years sewing leather goods; hats, bags, full length, lined leather coats, vests etc. Milliner: wire and straw, steamed felt, collection of vintage straws and millinery flowers Gilding:Learned gilding by assisting in gilding the large standing clock at the Paramus Mall in New Jersey Maker: I love a challenge and was called by companies to work out special projects like the Md. Science Center's construction of a new mathematical form, the Costa Surface (a 3 dimensional form with no intersecting planes) in a fabric rendering for a children's learning exhibit and many other exhibits at the Science Center, including a dragonfly coming out of a zippered chrysalis, a body of a Silverback mountain gorilla, a dinosaur stomach, etc. I made Tinkerbells wings and crown for a performance of Peter Pan at the Washington Ballet's production at the Warner Theater in Washington DC; a horse's leg with hoof for a pointer in a racing commercial Just about anything- I can find the materials and construct it. I have a professional steamer and sewing machine, and endless supplies. I can make available a large collection of women's 1950's vintage with notice.