At 01:11 PM 2/15/2006, you wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "otsisto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:55 PM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] colonial
This shows some other portraits of similar fullness of skirt. Click on the
picture for bigger picture and info in Spanish. Then click on that picture
with enlargement features (note: 200% is fuzzy)
http://pintura.aut.org/BU04?Autnum=11680&Empnum=0&Inicio=46
I'm not sure, cartridge pleating looks possible. Some techniques usually
don't disappear so easily.
You also clearly sees her wooden busk trough the bodice, this i
never noticed before.
This must be a heavy duchesse satin, and imagine to pleat so much
width into such a small waist, you really must use cartridge pleats
:-) sorry i keep on
Bjarne
Actually, there is another technique, rolled pleats. And they are
easy to sew into a waistband. My tailor, Stephen Bergdahl, used them
for my latest Elizabethan gown (I still have not learned how to do
them since I have not needed a new gown, yet). He said it was very
easy. And it does give the look of the full skirts in many of the portraits.
Joan Jurancich
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