When I was working as a dresser at the Opera House, some back-laced
costumes came with little metal aiglets. Those were nice for
dressing, but always got stuck in the grommets after the show when
the ladies wanted to undress quickly to go home. I found out that
securing the ends with plain glue was a good solution as the ends had
a bit of elasticity that made them slip easily through the grommets.
I just used a drop of glue and massaged it into the braid, and then
rolled it to a nice thin sausage.
Hanna
At 20:04 27.07.2009, you wrote:
Certainly not period correct, but I use lacing cord-by-the spool from
Greenberg & Hammer and using a narrow zig-zag stich on the machine, I stitch
about 1.5" down each end a couple of times (actualy I stitch about 3" while
stretching the cord to make it as narrow as possible, then cut it from the
spool in the center leaving one end already done for the next time) -- then
I use Fray-Check on the ends. It's long enough to to last for the run of a
show and then trim off the 1/4" or so of the end when it starts to fray, and
re-Fray-Check the newly cut end.
Kate Pinner
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] Lacing question
Right now, for convenience and in the interest of stash reduction, I'm using
1/8" and 1/4" silk ribbon, leftover from my last round of silk ribbon
embroidery. It's not very satisfactory, but I could not figure out a good
alternative.
20 years ago I bought a huge industrial spool of 1/4" cotton twill tape. (I
STILL have tons of it!) I use that and it works well, but the ends do fray.
I think I ordered the spool from Greenburg & Hammer.
http://www.greenberg-hammer.com/
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