Bjarne, why not embroider the flowers on smooth silk and then applique them to the ribbed silk. It is a perfectly acceptable historic way of working (particularly on velvet).
Lalah, Never give up, Never surrender --- "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:28:52 +0200 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [h-cost] My ribbed silk Oh i am so dissapointed. I tryed to embroider a small sampler on my new ribbed silk, yesterday evening. I will have to give it up. It is most difficult to stitch precisely because of the ribs, also transfer of pattern on to this is very difficult. The ribs are very hard to stitch trough. Well it has to be a plain jacket then. But i still could embroider a fine waistcoat in grey to go with this. Got some perfectly matching silk threads to embroider the waistcoat with from Mulberry silks in England. Imagine they have 900 colours to choose from! Found 3 shades that matches the ribbed silk, for flowers. It really was a shame........... Bjarne Leif og Bjarne Drews www.my-drewscostumes.dk http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _____________________________________________________________ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
