I'm still here and have been since h-costume started. I am not sewing
any garments because I have to make all the drapes for a
5,000-square-foot house my husband and I bought in June and have not
moved into yet. (Not to mention a lot of time-consuming stuff like
picking out paint colors and Arts & Crafts cabinet knobs.) Not a
fixer-upper but lots of work being done, like complete kitchen
remodeling, installing hardwood floors in several rooms that did not
have them already, and painting. Then the landscaping needed work too.
Everything takes longer than it was supposed to.
The house is a 1940s Colonial Revival and we are furnishing it combined
Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau style. Many features like oak flooring and a
fireplace with green tile carry over quite well. The sellers took all
the window coverings, which we probably wouldn't have liked anyway.
Some of the windows are fairly strange sizes and we ordered historic
reproduction custom-made roller shades for most of them. Which BTW
turned out not to cost any more than most of the ready-made shades I
looked at, and they're actually cotton instead of polyester.
The challenge I am facing is getting the fabric for the drapes. It
seems I want a fairly flat look, probably 1 1/2 times fullness. Since
this is not a bungalow, I figured a general-Victorian-look brocade is
OK, and I have a lot of that in my stash, though in many cases not
enough for a window. And I had some embroidered linen I bought online
that turned out to have motifs too large for clothes. For three rooms
that only have one window, what with only 1 1/2 times fullness I managed
to squeeze three windows' worth of drapes out of stash fabric.
The rest of the fabric is proving to be a pain to find. So if anyone
knows where to buy repro Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau drapery fabric in
quantities up to 18 yards for a single room, I'd LOVE to know. It seems
I can use a textured fabric such as dupioni or linen (preferably
stenciled linen) if I have to, but I wanted to furnish some rooms with
Art Nouveau brocades.
Have to say I think the average "bungalow" decorating book (trendier
than just Arts & Crafts) is somewhat misleading on recommending no
drapes at all or maybe only sheer drapes if you must have something.
The few period pictures mostly show the usual set of lace drapes, outer
drapes, sometimes a valance as well. The Victorians and Edwardians
didn't want the sun full on their faces at dawn, or the neighbors
peering into their windows, any more than we do.
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books of historic clothing patterns
www.lavoltapress.com
On 12/17/2015 9:36 AM, aqua...@patriot.net wrote:
You're welcome!
I suppose people could say what they are working on.
Right now I'm working on switching things to a new e-mail address. :-)
So, the url below doesn't do anything. I suppose I could try the sub and
unsub options. Does anyone have the info for that?
I tried "help" but the message bounced.
Thanks!
-Carol
Thanks for letting me know you are all here.
Monica Spence
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Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 9:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] Is h-costume still going?
I'm here -- but my first post saying so (from an alternate address by
mistake) was rejected.
On 12/17/2015 12:17 AM, Carol Kocian wrote:
Hi all,
Is h-costume still going? I’m trying to change my e-mail address for
it, but the link below does not work.
Thanks!
-Carol
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