At 06:26 AM 1/15/2006, you wrote:
I am late in on the conversation, but I didn't see anyone mentioning the
duct-tape forms you can make. Depending on how big your commercial dummy
is, you can even use it as most of the stuffing. I have even made these
for clients, unstuffed and restuffed them years later for new
garments. Just be sure you find good quality duct tape...otherwise it
stretches!
Sg
FWIW to all,
Roger and I, with the help of my husband, recently worked on wrapping Roger
in brown packing tape (the kind that hand tears easily), per instructions
from Connie Amaden-Crawford in her book "Pattermaking Made Easy". She
doesn't like duct tape and notes that duct tape gets pins sticky, which the
brown tape supposedly doesn't.
Basically, a person is put into a garbage bag, and a length of duct tape is
used to help define the curved parts. Then you take short sections of brown
tape and wrap below the waist. Then you take smaller pieces of brown tape
and tape the shoulders and neck area, then move to the back, then the
chest, then underarms and finally work the stomach last so you can breathe.
You do about 3-4 layers of brown tape, and seal it off with clear packing
tape. The wrapping took awhile, but it formed around curves rather nicely
since those sections are done with roughly squared pieces of tape done
diamond wise around the curvy parts.
While there is a build up of tape layers, I see it can provide a small
built in amount of ease, which would be about the same as the duct tape double.
I have made a duct tape dummy a couple of times, and didn't like how it
exploded on me with the stuffing (probably overstuffed). And the tape also
fell off in just a few months along the seam, and that was with fresh duct
tape. I will be making a brown tape double for myself (one regular, one in
ren. stays, and eventually one in a Victorian corset) as well once my baby
can go longer between feedings, as it took about 4.5 hours to just wrap
him. If we can get more people cutting pieces of taping and placing them,
it may go faster, as I need a double soon to work on various projects for
the year.
Kimiko
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