I have some lovely heavy silk twill from FFC in a sort of darkdark emerald
green, which I got because A) it's heavy silk, and anytime I see heavy silk
I must have it, and B) the husband loves that color. But I absolutely
cannot figure out what on earth to do with it. For some reason it screams
victorian to me, but it's far too floppy for anything that springs to mind
in that era. I'm going to hoard it for a few more years until it starts
screaming something more reasonable at me.
I can't really picture using any of the silk twills I've seen at FFC working
for the outer fabric of a structured Tudor-era gown. However, some of the
ribbed silks they sell would work very nicely! For example, I got some silk
ottoman from them not too long ago:
http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/catalog_itemdetail.aspx?ItmID=AA036
and it is perfect for anything structured. I haven't felt samples of their
other ottomans, but they should be at least somewhat similar (though the
sueded ones might not be quite right for the era):
http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog_items.aspx?Query=silk%20ottoman
Unfortunately, in order to find ribbed silks on the site, you have to know
the correct term for that specific fabric, and right now I'm drawing a blank
other than ottoman; they don't use any of the obvious terms like ribbed or
grosgrain. Mostly, you need to order 1/8 yd as a sample in order to find
out what a fabric is like, because fabrics with the same
name/description/price/appearance can be wildly different. Also
unfortunately, this sort of stuff rarely goes on sale!
-E House
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