[h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
On the dummy: An unfinished pirate shirt, an embroidered peasant top that needs cut down in size, an odd little jacket I'm contemplating something steampunky about, all of the Dear Hubby's shirts I need to iron, but can't get to until the duct-suckers leave. (And my goodness, aren't they a Decorative pair of young men!) There is a windbreaker getting new cuffs, and a knitted scarf that's about 4 rows from casting off sitting on my table beside the recliner. There's a giant dreamcatcher-like object from a yard sale in the laundry room waiting for a few new bits of suede ties to repair its webbing. There's an amazingly small bundle of assorted mending on the to-do pile, just hem button repairs, dead elastics etc. 4 lengths of jewel-toned velvets in a comforter's plastic zip-bag sitting on the Bowflex awaiting mail order bias binding in colors I can't get from JoAnn's. Those will be Xmas tree skirts other holiday dress-things-up-by-swathing-them-in-color objects. I just love the plastic bags that bedding comes in. They make such good project bags! On the Work-On-This-Next-Pile: an Indian embroidered tote bag that needs some interior pockets dividers to be usable, and a dead purse with a beautiful South American cross-stitch panel I need to salvage. Heaven only knows what else I'm gonna find to work on after I move everything back from where I stashed it so the workmen could get at all the vents the carpet cleaners can do their thing! Which reminds me - where the devil did the fabric for the black-out curtains for the recroom get to? What's fizzing in my mind are quilt projects. Dear Hubby surprized me with a stop at Quilt National on our daytrip to Athens Ohio last week, and now a bunch of old ideas have come forward from the back of my head and are jostling for attention I don't have time to give them. (argh!) I don't generally much like contemporary textile art, but this show had some extraordinary work. I need to get some sketches done before the stimuli fades. Just what I need - another project! And oh, yeah, the Autocrat for our shire's big mid-winter event wants to have tabards for the servers lots of hangings for the hall. The new King is from here, she wants to up our game. Mary ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] names for velvets...
my steam-punker has been attracted recently by victorian velvet outfits from the OMG that dress site, so he's been looking on-line at velvets. we have hit a term we can't find a real definition for. does anyone know what is meant by doux cotton velvet. doux literally means sweet. some of the descriptions say 100% cotton, which indicates warp, weft and PILE all of cotton. we have also run across descriptions of linen velvet, and mohair velvet! both the cotton and linen velvet appear to run around $17/yard; 54-56 width -- oh, the linen is on 66% sale, usually more like $50/yd! flanders velvet, housefabric.com, 63% cotton, currently on sale $10/54 yd... well, enough dithering, he can pull up examples faster than I can transcribe them, 8-) so... doux cotton velvet, linen velvet, flanders velvet... any definitions? thx much chimene ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] names for velvets...
Doux also means soft, but here it seems to be a brand name/manufacturer's label rather than a type of fabric. Velvet is a weave. You *can* weave velvets from any fiber, though some fibers are more attractive than others, and some velvets are significantly more available and/or affordable than others. If you want to make clothes, make sure you are not getting upholstery weight velvet, which can be very heavy indeed, except maybe for a small garment like a vest. All the linen velvet (velvet weave, linen fiber) that I have seen has been upholstery velvet. If you find any garment weight linen velvet, please post the source and I'll go buy some! Cotton velvet may commonly be either garment or upholstery weight, but if it's from a home-dec store it's probably upholstery weight. On housefabric.com, with the velvets labeled Flanders, Nevada, etc., those are just brand names/manufacturer's labels, not standard fabric names. When you are buying garment-weight velvet, make sure it's not a stretch velvet unless you want stretch. Fran Frances Grimble Books on making historic clothing www.lavoltapress.com On 9/13/2013 1:57 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote: my steam-punker has been attracted recently by victorian velvet outfits from the OMG that dress site, so he's been looking on-line at velvets. we have hit a term we can't find a real definition for. does anyone know what is meant by doux cotton velvet. doux literally means sweet. some of the descriptions say 100% cotton, which indicates warp, weft and PILE all of cotton. we have also run across descriptions of linen velvet, and mohair velvet! both the cotton and linen velvet appear to run around $17/yard; 54-56 width -- oh, the linen is on 66% sale, usually more like $50/yd! flanders velvet, housefabric.com, 63% cotton, currently on sale $10/54 yd... well, enough dithering, he can pull up examples faster than I can transcribe them, 8-) so... doux cotton velvet, linen velvet, flanders velvet... any definitions? thx much chimene ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] names for velvets...
I would not want to buy any velvet sight unseen. Only buy from a place that will send you swatches. Some velvets are so slinky they would drive me crazy to work with them, while some, even clothing weight, have a bit more body. Ann Wass In a message dated 9/13/2013 4:58:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, chim...@ravensgard.org writes: my steam-punker has been attracted recently by victorian velvet outfits from the OMG that dress site, so he's been looking on-line at velvets. we have hit a term we can't find a real definition for. does anyone know what is meant by doux cotton velvet. doux literally means sweet. some of the descriptions say 100% cotton, which indicates warp, weft and PILE all of cotton. we have also run across descriptions of linen velvet, and mohair velvet! both the cotton and linen velvet appear to run around $17/yard; 54-56 width -- oh, the linen is on 66% sale, usually more like $50/yd! flanders velvet, housefabric.com, 63% cotton, currently on sale $10/54 yd... well, enough dithering, he can pull up examples faster than I can transcribe them, 8-) so... doux cotton velvet, linen velvet, flanders velvet... any definitions? thx much chimene ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] names for velvets...
In a message dated 9/13/2013 4:58:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, chim...@ravensgard.org writes: my steam-punker has been attracted recently by victorian velvet outfits from the OMG that dress site, so he's been looking on-line at velvets. we have hit a term we can't find a real definition for. does anyone know what is meant by doux cotton velvet. doux literally means sweet. some of the descriptions say 100% cotton, which indicates warp, weft and PILE all of cotton. we have also run across descriptions of linen velvet, and mohair velvet! both the cotton and linen velvet appear to run around $17/yard; 54-56 width -- oh, the linen is on 66% sale, usually more like $50/yd! flanders velvet, housefabric.com, 63% cotton, currently on sale $10/54 yd... well, enough dithering, he can pull up examples faster than I can transcribe them, 8-) so... doux cotton velvet, linen velvet, flanders velvet... any definitions? thx much chimene ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
