Can you turn it upside down and attach to the lamp with the top finial and work on it that way?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lavolta Press Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:50 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT: Victorian style lamp shades Sharon Collier wrote: > If you use something like silk chiffon, it stretches enough to give > some leeway. Can you remove what's left of your shade to use as a pattern? One of the panels is more or less intact, so yes. The pattern is not really the issue, but getting the material onto the frame with the correct tension. Do you stretch out the whole piece, pin or baste it like crazy, and then hand sew it onto the wire all around? Or sew one side and then stretch the material across to sew the other side? This is a huge shade, so the frame is not convenient to hold. Fran _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
