At 01:58 PM 5/8/2009, you wrote:
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.
Speaking for myself, as a past historic judge, if your documentation
notes the correct type of seam finish and properties of the fabric
and you have to deviate because of the properties of the available
fabric, then you are good. You are demonstrating to us that you know
what is correct, while explaining that the available materials cannot
achieve that effect and what you are doing to compensate.
And note, there is no "right" way to achieve your compensation. In
your example, I could also see binding all the seam edges and then
flat-felling the seams. You could also zig-zag stitch or even serge
the edges as well. None of these techniques would be any "better"
than the others. The important thing is you make it clear you know
what was correct, why you can't do that, and how you are achieving a
similar look.
Pierre
Likewise with sergeing, would that be "better" than a raw edge?
-Carol
"Those Who Fail to Learn History
Are Doomed to Repeat It;
Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly -
Why They Are Simply Doomed."
Achemdro'hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
-- C. Y. 4971
Andromeda
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