Hi, When adding 2 frills to an 18th century outfit, would you not gather each frill up separately, and then attach them on top of eachother? If i gather both on the same time, they make the same folds, wich i dont think is right?
Bjarne Bjarne I've been studying some spectacular 18th century gowns at the Costume Institute this past year. I've not seen any that had multiple sleeve ruffles gathered as one. Sometimes they're mounted right on top of each other and sometimes there's space between them. Often they start above the hem of the sleeve, but I've also seen the bottom (longest) ruffle whipped to the sleeve edge. A very nice treatment is to have a header on the top ruffle that's stitched down along its upper edge as well, forming a band of trim. The shape of the two or three ruffles on a sleeve are not the same. I'm sure you've looked at Janet Arnold's examples. What's amazing to me is the really wham-bam construction on the inside of the garments. Martha _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
