On May 8, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Käthe Barrows wrote:
Of course, there are periods where a raw edge is more authentic
than finished edges.
But if you'd documented the lack of seam finish, and if your other
hand-sewing was good, the lack of seam finish would have looked
deliberate, not like an oversight.
One difficulty is that cloth was fulled much better in various
historic periods than what's available now. There are some fulled
fabrics available, but more expensive. Anyway, as pointed out
earlier, sometimes raw edges are appropriate.
So what happens when someone uses a non-period appropriate seam
finish to accommodate a not-quite-period fabric? Frequently for
18thC, reenactors will make shifts with French seams (an easy finish
with machine sewing), but flat-fell is the way they were done at the
time.
Likewise with sergeing, would that be "better" than a raw edge?
-Carol
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