At 11:04 AM 8/9/03 +0100, Brenda Paternoster wrote: >Sorry I can't help with Canadian sourcing, but you should be looking at >yardage fabric or maybe a good quality man's hankie which you can cut down.
I think that if anyone had a Canadian source, he would have posted by now. If you have Usenet access, try posting a query on alt.sewing. A search of the archives of the Yahoo mailing list "18th-C Woman" might prove fruitful, since they make their shifts and caps of the finest linen they can find. All the sources I recall noticing were USAian or British, but I have an excellent[1] source of apparel linen, and didn't pay attention, so there might be a Canadian one. ([1] White hanky weight linen doesn't turn up on fabric.com very often, but when it does, it's cheap enough that you can buy enough to last until the next time. The descriptions, however, are slanted toward people who think thin fabric is sleazy, so it may overstate the fineness. But you get a picture large enough to count the threads, and there is usually a ruler in the photo.) -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's warm and sunny - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
