At 07:10 PM 8/5/2009, you wrote:
Good evening,
Does anybody know where I could buy split rods for making velvet or
other piled fabrics? I mean the ones with a groove to cut the pile
loops?
Thank you!
My weaving guild had a presentation a few months ago by an expert on
velvet production (my goodness, her samples from Italy were
incredible!) who said that the velvet wires are no longer being made;
the one maker of the wires just retired recently and no one has taken
up the craft. In fact, she said that they are so valuable that if
her house were on fire, she'd grab her velvet wires before she'd grab
anything else.
If you are not going to make velvet with a short pile, there are ways
to come up with substitutes, but the real velvet wires are no longer
in production.
Joan Jurancich
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