I would lean toward mending and leave patches for tears. If you are 'respectable', I think you would not advertise that you are also dirt poor. Somehow, I think illustrators of children's books have contributed to our concepts of how people of the past dealt with worn clothing. I find mending to be the proper way and patches, a quick fix. It is akin to using safteypins in place of lost buttons.
Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Shillaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:27 AM Subject: [h-cost] mending techniques > Hello, > I would be very gratefull for advice as to how to sort out my 1670 midwives > clothing which I've just retrieved from storage to discover a fair bit of > moth damage. The whole set, boddice, and two pleated skirts all wool lined > with linen ,the design based on Vermeer's mikmaid has to be remade anyway as > I've dropped from english size 20 to a 10. Re-making the kit is no problem > but how should I repair the moth holes? I can darn and patch.I have lovely > woolen yarn in a matching colour for darning and also scraps of the cloth > for patching. Should I use a mix of darns and patches? I'm hoping to make > the repairs part of the costume part of my presentation. My character is a > respectable midwife, licesnsed by the Bishop, well repected etc etc but not > hugely wealthy.Any ideas gratefully recieved. > Not downhearted about this as the kit is beggining to look like real > clothing as oppossed to a costume, and making kit smaller is easier than > making it bigger. > sorry about my speelling mistakes. > > regards > Joy > > _______________________________________________ > 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
