At 03:06 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote:
I have been asked to reproduce a garment for a museum. A pattern has
been made copying some original fragments, which were of "tabby
weave" wool. Could somebody please, in layman's terms, tell me what
tabby weave looks like. (I do not need to know *how* it was woven
right now.) I need to find a modern wool that resembles it, and I
don't know what I am looking for.
Please don't give me names of wool unless you know they are English.
I have not had time to write that American/English costume
dictionary that I have been threatening since I first arrived in
America with a theatre wardrobe and couldn't buy scissors the size I
wanted till I discovered they are called shears!!
Suzi
"Tabby weave" simply means "woven over 1, under 1". Most plain linen
is tabby woven. Avoid gabardine or twills. In order to find
something that resembles the original, you will need to have the
threads per inch in the warp and in the weft in order to find the right weight.
Joan Jurancich
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