Thank you so much, Laura, Yes, I mean the ruffler foot. Mine is a very close cousin to your first link, which I left quoted below.
It makes its ruffles is by making a little pleat, every stitch, or every 6 or 12 stitches, depending on how it's set. modern ruffler foot: <http://www.nancysnotions.com/NNVia/viaImagePageTacony.jsp?searchText=55705&pd=Ruffler%20Foot%20Low%20Shank> Mine was very much torqued, and I used two pairs of pliers to straighten it out--if it had broken, well, it wouldn't actually go on the machine in its bent state. I used it to ruffle the better part of 25 yards of cloth, less once it'd been ruffled, mostly on the every-6-stitches setting. This is for the ruffled overlay on Truly Victorian 101 bustle. Ann in CT --- Laura Rubin wrote: > I'm going out on a limb to assume you're referring > to ruffler feet, which also often make pleats. :) > The oldest patent I could find is dated as filed in 1865, > and talks about how it's an improvement on the existing ruffler foot. > Unfortunately, the illustration is dated 1887, which makes me think he > sat in the patent approval queue for some time. (There are a > *bunch* of patents coming in as "improvements" in ruffler feet around > 1873, including one that took "only" two months to be issued. > > <http://www.google.com/patents?id=OQ1pAAAAEBAJ> (Filed 1865, > issues1887) > > -Laura _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
