On Oct 6, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Beteena Paradise wrote:
The yellow looks like a damask to my eyes. Do you think it is? Or is it embroidery? Stamped velvelt? If I do it in a decent weight damask (I already have a nice golden yellow cotton damask), do you think that a silk velvet would have enough body to it to work right with the damask? Or would something else work better?
The yellow could also be a figured cloth-of-gold. Silk velvet (or what's called silk velvet today) is too limp to behave well in this context, but it's possible that you could underline it with something to stiffen it up. It would be tricky to control the layers, since the velvet will want to crawl out the door when you try to sew it. If you do want to try this, I'd recommend first hand-basting the velvet to the underlining along all of the stitching lines, then hand- basting the underlined pieces to the rest before you sew it on the machine. Even better would be hand-sewing the whole thing, as you can control it much more easily that way. Best would be padstitching the velvet to the underlining, then hand-sewing the whole thing...how much time have you got??
Good luck, Melanie Schuessler _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
