A local costumer here abouts used to teach a ruff making class that when he was done you were hitting your forehead thinking, now why didn't I think of that!?!
He used twill tape, upolstry twill tape. It holds its shape and it comes in very very very bright white or a slight beige. It comes in varying widths. You then add on to it as needed of the frills. You can wash it 20 times and it will still hold its shape, honest. Cut out your neck band and fit it. Now take your length of twill tape and use a water eraseable marker or pins and with a long straight edge draw a line every inch or wider apart. Make a running stitch on every other line on one side of the fold, repeat for the other side, going the other direction but do it on the the lines you skipped. Draw both threads up. Stitch it sideways to that neck band you fitted to him earlier. Formula posted on this list many times for yardage help on ruff making: yardage = ((length * width * 2) / spacing) / 36 Hope that helps. :) On Mon, June 19, 2006 1:18 pm, REBECCA BURCH said: > I have what is probably a very basic question, but I > need an answer anyway. > > I am making Elizabethan garb for my son to wear this > summer at Bristol. I started on the neck ruff the way > I would normally and suddenly realized that this will > be seen up close and the machine stitches on the > edgeing will show as will the horsehair braid. > > How do you construct the neck ruff so that the hem, > etc is hidden? > > Rebecca Burch > Center Valley Farm > Duncan Falls, Ohio, USA > _______________________________________________ > 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
