Hi Laurie, If you bought the original shirt from a vendor, and from I recall of RenFaire vendors, it's probably cotton gauze (is it crinkly?)
I suggest just using a lightweight linen. It'll be similar in texture, and very nice to wear. I loves me linen shirts, shifts, smocks, pants, skirts, dresses, etc. Claudine ----- Original Message ---- > From: Laurie Taylor <costume...@mazarineblue.com> > To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> > Sent: Sun, October 17, 2010 12:40:55 PM > 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 T. > > -----Original Message----- <snipped> _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
