Re: [h-cost] Kelly/Estellas projekt

[WickedFrau]

Yeah!  I am so glad to see someone else doing these types of gowns.  In 
doing "A Suitable Gown for Her Majesty"  *http://tinyurl.com/87qbb *
we also chose to put the corset front under the farthingale.  Now the 
front of this farthingale is flat.  In my research I found some wheels 
depicted as being rather sharply tillted to the back but more often they 
were not, which made me wonder if it wasn't the artists way of trying to 
show what was going on behind in portraiture.   Many of the effigies 
with smaller wheels are pretty flat, which gives a prettty good 3D idea 
of what they looked like. Ninya Mikhalia on the other hand looks like 
she places most of her's on the outside.   
http://www.ninyamikhaila.com/wheelfarthingales.html 

I didn't care much for Hunisett's wheel construction.  I made several 
up, but chose to go with Ninya's way of doing them.  Unfortunaely when 
doing a flat front the tension isn't great enough to keep the fabric 
nice and taut, so I chose to cover the cotuil with a little batting and 
the silk. 

I look forward to seeing more of your work!

Sg


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