Thanks, I have a wonderful 1920s green metallic silk brocade with dead white rabbit fur collar and cuffs--my Mum recently found me a modern white rabbit fut jacket to replace them but I've never worked with fur before.
Katy On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Cin <[email protected]> wrote: > Vogue Patterns mag Dec 2010/Jan 2011 issue has a realy nice article on > working with fur. It has a huge chunk of advice for working with old > furs, mending splits, reshaping and more. I dont generally get this > mag, but this article was a "must have" for me. I too, have a closet > full of vintage furs and a box in the garage labelled "road kill" > filled with furs with big holes, badly worn areas & other problems. > --cin > Cynthia Barnes > [email protected] > > > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Kate Bunting <[email protected]> wrote: >> My current project is to trim the 17th century jacket, which I made last >> winter, with fur. Political correctness has made it impossible to buy old >> fur coats in charity shops, but a fellow reenactor kindly gave me the >> sleeves of a rabbit coat during the summer. I want it to look like the >> fur-edged jackets you see in many Dutch paintings. >> >> Does anyone have any advice about this? I've borrowed a library book with >> instructions for making fur collars etc. It recommends you to dampen the >> skin side of the fur and pin it into shape on a board before cutting. I've >> made a paper template but haven't had time to do anything more yet. >> >> Kate Bunting >> Librarian & 17th century reenactor >> >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves >> the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to >> you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct >> any concerns to [email protected]. >> The policy is available here: http://www.derby.ac.uk/LIS/Email-Policy >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [email protected] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
