Use it as the puffs in pinked or slashed sleeves for a tudor or elizabethan!
You may have to double it or put some cotton wool behind it so it will stay
puffy, but it would work.
Maybe the netting would work over emboridered sleeves.
MaggiRos
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Maggie Secara
A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603: Elizabethan commonplaces for
writers, actors, & re-enactors
ISBN: 978-0-9818401-0-9
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:15 AM, otsisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The white silk is light weight and though it is said to be a gauze it is
> not
> very see through. Too flimsy for a coif and not see through enough to have
> embroidery show through. The netting on the other hand is somewhat see
> through.
> This is the silk gauze. it is lightweight and I thought it was going to be
> sheer and it aint.
> http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/catalog_itemdetail.aspx?ItmID=QQ574
> This shows the netting silk but in red
> http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/catalog_itemdetail.aspx?ItmID=AA034
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I have 1yd x 45" white silk gauze. What pre 1600s item can I make of it
> other than a partlet?
> I have 2yds x 44" cream silk netting. A portion of it will be for a partlet
> to go with a cream pre- 1600s gown. What would you make with 2 yds of silk
> netting?
>
> De
>
>
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