On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Saragrace Knauf wrote:
I am about to embark on a "Arnolfi Wedding" dress. http://tinyurl.com/creey OR http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG186 I have 12 yards of the bright green wool....it weighs a ton! It looks like that will just barely squeeze by as enough. What kind of fur does it look like to you? I am pretty sure I can't afford that much Ermine....if that is what it is. Unless it is REALLY good faux fur, I don't want to use it. I am almost more inclined to use a natural color of velvet --thinking rayon/silk.... What would you do? Sg
I think she's wearing gris, or, the gray backs of squirrel with the white trimmed off. Squirrel is a fairly low-pile fur, shorter than rabbit. An actual squirrel skin is about $5 or so.
Me myself I'd just trim with it and not line the entire garment (although it almost certainly *is* fully lined with fur) and line the rest of the garment with lightweight linen or something along those lines.
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