Dive deeper into this episode with exclusive sketches, production designs, and fun facts delivered directly from the Outlander crew.
Closer Look: Filming the Episode
Costume Design: Jocasta
At River Run, Jocasta’s look “demonstrates a relaxing of Jocasta’s formal attire and indicates a softer feel whilst her relationship with Brianna becomes more open and almost maternal. The Pet-en-l’ier, with sacque back is made from an overdyed cotton print fabric with self-ruched trim and shot metallic silk edging,” says Co-Costume Designer Nina Ayers.
“The caraco was made from a digitally printed cotton sateen with a braided striped sleeve and stomacher,” she continues.
Set Design: The Mohawk Village
The Art Department researched the Mohawk Village for over a year. Get a behind-the-scenes look at what went into creating it.
Costume Design: The Mohawk
Describing the Mohawk, Co-Costume Designer Nina Ayers explains, “Wahkatiiosta wears the traditional Mohawk moccasins, leggings, garters and deer hide skirt, coupled with an oversized men’s trade shirt belted with a sash and practical leather belt. She wears a porcupine quill-worked bag with a finger-woven strap and quill-worked neck sheath. Her shell amulet has the ‘wolf’ design etched into it. I specifically designed this to become the ‘symbol’ of the village to help Young Ian identify where Roger had been taken to. The waistcoat, which she wears with her rebel warriors to retake the opal, is covered in trade ring brooches, usually worn as decoration. I decided to show signs that it had once been fully covered in them to act as an armor.”
For Chief Tehwahsekwe, “Drawing on the vast research into the Mohawk of the period, the Chief wears a military-style coat with the sleeves removed and a trade shirt coupled with the traditional moccasins, leggings, garters and breechclout of the period. Color and pattern were most revered, as were the traditional skills such as the porcupine quillwork seen on his otter bag and headdress. The 9-stranded wampum necklace held in 3 sections represents the 3 Mohawk clans of the time: the bear, wolf, and turtle clans,” she says.
