In a message dated 5/4/2006 11:28:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How could such a pattern look like? ************************* Well....that's why you pay for a pattern if you can't figure it out. But if you really want to know....it's on page 30 of Janet Arnold's 1st volume of "Patterns of Fashion". I suggest you take a rectangle of fabric the length you want the opening and the width being the depth you want the hood and start draping it on a person...with a head....since dress dummies don't have heads, as I'm sure you know. It's basically a rectangle arched over the head, with the short sides gathered or pleated into the neck of the cloak and meeting CB...then the back sewn up a bit [ to about height of the crown of the head...8" to 10" I think for a big hood....but it's only like 6" in Arnold] and the rest pleated or gathered closed, fanning out from one point. To reduce some bulk in the back pleating you can make that back side of the rectangle shorter than the front [open] side...which makes it now a trapezoid with the short sides slanting to the CB. Did that make any sense? _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
