[h-cost] Re machine embroidery
Machines can either do chain or other types. I can even add sequins on mine. The evenness can be digitized out by individual placement of stitches. Thickness can be adjusted by the number of passes or bean. Repeat patterns can have variability added by slight size or angle changes, just enough to fool the eye. There are now spiral fills which give quite an opus anglorum look. No real stem stitch but a very highly angled satin stitch or tatiama. Good programmes can do colour blending and photo like images. I can do applique and even embroider leather. You can also do free standing lace which is good for miniature making or getting just the right design. Sorry I can't snip from my new tablet. From: h-costume-requ...@indra.com Subject: h-costume Digest, Vol 11, Issue 246 To: h-costume@mail.indra.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:00:01 -0600 Send h-costume mailing list submissions to h-costume@mail.indra.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to h-costume-requ...@mail.indra.com You can reach the person managing the list at h-costume-ow...@mail.indra.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of h-costume digest... --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: bete...@mostlymedieval.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:40:32 -0700 Subject: Re: [h-cost] Indian? Pakistani? Not sure what it is. I found something. Someone on a forum or something like that was asking about a Kameez Lengha (sometimes spelled lahenga) which is the tunic with the skirt. I guess Lengha means skirt. Anyway, they were saying that this was the Pakistani style as opposed to the lengha choli which is more of an Indian style. So maybe your outfit is Pakastani? Teena From: Marjorie Wilser the3t...@gmail.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Indian? Pakistani? Not sure what it is. Lauren, Thanks for the link!! Not a lehenga choli like those pictures. No. The top is a *tunic* and not a choli. It's as if you were to take a Punjabi pantsuit *tunic* and place it over the long lovely skirt from the Lehenga choli. I'll find time later to post the pic of me wearing it. I'm unforgivably paleface, but the outfit is nice :) ==Marjorie Wilser On Nov 1, 2012, at 7:36 AM, lauren.wal...@comcast.net wrote: It's a lehenga choli. http://www.exoticindiaart.com/textiles/SalwarKameez/lehenga/ The Punjabi pantsuit is called a salwar kameez. The lehenga choli is often used for bridal wear. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: f...@lavoltapress.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:53:01 -0700 Subject: Re: [h-cost] Umm. . . please say something historical? Well, I DID say I was looking for a machine with the idea of doing historical embroidery that looked sort of accurate, and wondered if there were many available historical designs or if not, how to digitize my own. Blackwork is a nice idea but I'm also interested in other kinds of embroidery. I'm sure embroidery machines can do satin stitch, but can they do chain stitch? What kinds of stitches comparable to hand stitches are available on embroidery machines, other than straight sewing, zigzag, satin stitch, and the kinds of seam finishes available on sewing machines like my Bernina 1008? I'm not that impressed by the blackwork samples someone linked to, but I think they would have been improved by use of a heavier thread. The real difficulty I saw was a machine-like regularity. This list isn't very active, so let's not spoil a conversation by over policing. Fran Lavolta Press Books on making historic clothing www.lavoltapress.com On 10/31/2012 11:06 PM, Marjorie Wilser wrote: Hi guys, Technology is wonderful. . . and for theatre costuming I'm sure it's a timesaver. But I'm laboring under the illusion that this is a historical costuming list, and wearying of machine embroidery (begging all your pardon. . . 'tis true). Please somebody, talk historical costume? ==Marjorie Wilser ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: f...@lavoltapress.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:57:41 -0700 Subject: Re: [h-cost] Indian? Pakistani? Not sure what it is. Marjorie, Are these historic garments, or is this an inappropriately non-historic discussion? Fran Lavolta Press Books on making historic clothing www.lavoltapress.com On 11/1/2012 9:15 AM, Marjorie Wilser wrote: Lauren,
Re: [h-cost] Re machine embroidery
What model of machine do you have? Thanks, Fran On 11/1/2012 3:22 PM, lynlee o wrote: Machines can either do chain or other types. I can even add sequins on mine. The evenness can be digitized out by individual placement of stitches. Thickness can be adjusted by the number of passes or bean. Repeat patterns can have variability added by slight size or angle changes, just enough to fool the eye. There are now spiral fills which give quite an opus anglorum look. No real stem stitch but a very highly angled satin stitch or tatiama. Good programmes can do colour blending and photo like images. I can do applique and even embroider leather. You can also do free standing lace which is good for miniature making or getting just the right design. Sorry I can't snip from my new tablet. From: h-costume-requ...@indra.com Subject: h-costume Digest, Vol 11, Issue 246 To: h-costume@mail.indra.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:00:01 -0600 Send h-costume mailing list submissions to h-costume@mail.indra.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to h-costume-requ...@mail.indra.com You can reach the person managing the list at h-costume-ow...@mail.indra.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of h-costume digest... --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: bete...@mostlymedieval.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:40:32 -0700 Subject: Re: [h-cost] Indian? Pakistani? Not sure what it is. I found something. Someone on a forum or something like that was asking about a Kameez Lengha (sometimes spelled lahenga) which is the tunic with the skirt. I guess Lengha means skirt. Anyway, they were saying that this was the Pakistani style as opposed to the lengha choli which is more of an Indian style. So maybe your outfit is Pakastani? Teena From: Marjorie Wilser the3t...@gmail.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2012 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Indian? Pakistani? Not sure what it is. Lauren, Thanks for the link!! Not a lehenga choli like those pictures. No. The top is a *tunic* and not a choli. It's as if you were to take a Punjabi pantsuit *tunic* and place it over the long lovely skirt from the Lehenga choli. I'll find time later to post the pic of me wearing it. I'm unforgivably paleface, but the outfit is nice :) ==Marjorie Wilser On Nov 1, 2012, at 7:36 AM, lauren.wal...@comcast.net wrote: It's a lehenga choli. http://www.exoticindiaart.com/textiles/SalwarKameez/lehenga/ The Punjabi pantsuit is called a salwar kameez. The lehenga choli is often used for bridal wear. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: f...@lavoltapress.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:53:01 -0700 Subject: Re: [h-cost] Umm. . . please say something historical? Well, I DID say I was looking for a machine with the idea of doing historical embroidery that looked sort of accurate, and wondered if there were many available historical designs or if not, how to digitize my own. Blackwork is a nice idea but I'm also interested in other kinds of embroidery. I'm sure embroidery machines can do satin stitch, but can they do chain stitch? What kinds of stitches comparable to hand stitches are available on embroidery machines, other than straight sewing, zigzag, satin stitch, and the kinds of seam finishes available on sewing machines like my Bernina 1008? I'm not that impressed by the blackwork samples someone linked to, but I think they would have been improved by use of a heavier thread. The real difficulty I saw was a machine-like regularity. This list isn't very active, so let's not spoil a conversation by over policing. Fran Lavolta Press Books on making historic clothing www.lavoltapress.com On 10/31/2012 11:06 PM, Marjorie Wilser wrote: Hi guys, Technology is wonderful. . . and for theatre costuming I'm sure it's a timesaver. But I'm laboring under the illusion that this is a historical costuming list, and wearying of machine embroidery (begging all your pardon. . . 'tis true). Please somebody, talk historical costume? ==Marjorie Wilser ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: f...@lavoltapress.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:57:41 -0700 Subject: Re: [h-cost] Indian? Pakistani? Not sure what it is. Marjorie, Are these historic garments, or is this an inappropriately non-historic discussion? Fran Lavolta Press Books on making historic
