A lot of my chemises/shirts ar bleached msulin. This serves several purposes. First, ibcanbexpeiment and fine tune the fit on the cheap stuff but it is still perfectlywerable usable. Second, I can then knock out a linen " good shrit" and kep it for just thet. The cotton gets wprn for ollecting firewood, cooking waashing dishes setting up you get the picture. It would even get worn for fighting were i a fighter. The linen gets worn for nice. A in court, feast, visiting. I have a lot mre shlep chemises than i do fine ones but that helps me keep the good ones for special! -----Original Message----- Date: Sunday, October 17, 2010 3:41:29 pm To: "'Historical Costume'" <[email protected]> From: "Laurie Taylor" <[email protected]> Subject: [h-cost] Fabric - was: Shirt pattern - SCA period - pre-1600
Hello, me again. For that same shirt project, now that I have woken up and recognized the many resources already present in my studio, I'm hung up on fabric. Well, not really hung up as I can certainly use 100% linen and end up with a reasonably period shirt. But the shirt that he already has is 100% cotton - I know - not period - but very comfy and again, he likes it. The fabric strikes me as rather unusual. It's an off-white - very creamy - but it's almost like a crepe - a cotton crepe. Online searching for 100% cotton crepes has yielded very little. Fashion Fabrics Club does have a tan cotton/linen crepe and a purple 100% cotton crepe, but that's all I've found. I may be wrong about the existing shirt being of a crepe, but that's the closest I can guess, even handling it directly. It reminds me of cotton (or maybe linen) dish towels, reasonably finely woven but very soft. It's very much different from any weight/weave of linen that I've found anywhere. Any thoughts? Laurie _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
