Dental floss also is great for buttons for stage -- almost totally
actor-proof!
Kate
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Olanich Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] The bead-net dress (was: movie costumes--Egyptian)
On Friday 05 January 2007 12:51 pm, Lynn Downward wrote:
Robin, thank you for sending us that link. It's only fabulous!
Warning in case someone is thinking of making that dress, even for a
doll: I do some net beading - my sister calls it the insane beading -
and the way that net dress was reproduced promises that it would never
survive a day of wear (not that they reproduced it for wear). The
threads would have to be woven through the beads several times each
for stability, especially since many of the beads used by the
Egyptians are faence and are very sharp-edged and would cut through
the threads.
As for folk brave enough to try to make such a beaded dress, I have two
words
of advice--dental floss. Stronger than any other thread I know of (makers
of
belly dance garb sometimes suggest it for beading dance bras).
These beautiful dresses would be very time-consuming to
produce and therefore probably owned only by the rich who could afford
to have someone make them. in the case of musicians or dancers who
might wear them, they would probably have been owned by the troupe or
the owner of the troupe, like any other stage property.
That would be my guess, as well.
--
Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point
of doubtful sanity." --Robert Frost
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