There are some really nifty needlepoint frames that might work. If you click on the accessories link on the web page, pasted below, you'll see several that might help. Denise, the owner is wonderfully helpful.
http://www.threadneedlestreet.com/ Good luck! Elena/Gia -------------- Original message -------------- From: "E House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I need some bright ideas. I'm planning to make my own goldwork embroidery > trim, > by embroidering some heavy silk satin ribbon; I'll be doing it both on some > 5/8" > wide and some 1" wide ribbon. The embroidery is going to be a continuous > design, and longer than any frames I've seen, so I won't be able to fit it > into > a normal embroidery frame without wrecking it. I thought of pinning it to a > pillow, but I can't figure out any practical way to do that without > accidentally > embroidering into the pillow itself. Ideas? > > Also, long ago I did graphic design for an embroidery company. To back the > embroidery, one of the things they used was a type of interfacing that > dissolved > when sprayed with water. Does anyone know the name of this stuff, or brand > names of something similar but perhaps a bit more substantial? The ribbon is > black, and all the traditional methods I've experimented with to mark the > design > just did not work well; there's too much fiddly detail in the design for > anything that actually shows up. I'm hoping to mark the design on an easily > removeable interfacing instead. (My last ditch idea is to paint the design > on, > but that seems like it will take forever and make it really hard to > accurately > render the design.) > > -E House > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
