Sorry for taking so long to reply to this.
I chose Janet Arnold's method of making the wheel because it uses the least
amount of fabric. This has been a pet project of mine for some time. I
believe that if you had to weave the fabric yourself, then you wouldn't
waste any of it. So a lot of my theories are based around trying to come up
with a cutting method that has little watse fabric.
I like how Ninya uses the short bones down the centrefront edges though, and
will try that out as mine are collapsing at the moment. I also need to make
yet another bum roll, mine *still* isn't large enough!
If I can talk my spousal unit into some web work this evening, there will be
more photos up soon. I know how to make web pages, but this is his thing,
so I have to wait for him ;-)
Kelly/estela
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From: "WickedFrau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Kelly/Estellas projekt
Yeah! I am so glad to see someone else doing these types of gowns. In
doing "A Suitable Gown for Her Majesty" *http://tinyurl.com/87qbb *
we also chose to put the corset front under the farthingale. Now the
front of this farthingale is flat. In my research I found some wheels
depicted as being rather sharply tillted to the back but more often they
were not, which made me wonder if it wasn't the artists way of trying to
show what was going on behind in portraiture. Many of the effigies with
smaller wheels are pretty flat, which gives a prettty good 3D idea of what
they looked like. Ninya Mikhalia on the other hand looks like she places
most of her's on the outside.
http://www.ninyamikhaila.com/wheelfarthingales.html
I didn't care much for Hunisett's wheel construction. I made several up,
but chose to go with Ninya's way of doing them. Unfortunaely when doing a
flat front the tension isn't great enough to keep the fabric nice and
taut, so I chose to cover the cotuil with a little batting and the silk.
I look forward to seeing more of your work!
Sg
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