Greetings once again,
Has anyone ever purchased some of this velvet? I have
found it at http://www.minidolls.com/silk.shtml and it
answers all my needs for a project I have had in mind
for a while. Said project is based on the "Portrait of
Soldier" (Giovanni Moroni, c1557, Museo del Prado ,
Madrid http://www.wga.hu/art/m/moroni/port_sol.jpg)
painting. I had brought this painting up in a
discussion a short while ago. I had always envisioned
the doublet in changeable velvet, and now I have found
it. problem is, I have no evidence that this variety
of velvet existed at the time of this painting. I
would hazard it did; cut velvets with contrasting
patterns suggest it was woven in this way - I would
*really* like to see an extant scrap from somewhere in
Europe that said yes, they did it. Has anyone seen
anything like this anywhere?
I've already ordered a yard of it in order to mess
around with it a bit and see what I can pull out of my
hat in terms of creative use. Im going to check my
discharge acid directions to see if I could use that
to make cut velvet jaquard from this stuff. Otherwise,
it's hand cutting - eep!
Kathy
ItÂ’s never too late to be who you might have been.
-George Eliot
English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by Angles
cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of Vikings
masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and Greek but lacked
the Arabic in which to convey that.
-Bill Hammel
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