Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
I'm terribly interested, but I probably won't be able to afford it until fall/winter. I'd be happy to design several dozen patterns that I want as soon as I have a speck of spare time, though! =} -E House, who just spent her fabric budget for the year on the most recent-but-one Adobe software suite, and therefore will have no spare time when it arrives in the mail tomorrow hurryhurryhurryhurry... On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Kathy Stormberg ksto...@hotmail.com wrote: ... I would be interested in doing a silk brocade if maybe some others want to go in on it for a nice medieval pattern. -Kathy ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
I realized I made a mistake when typing the prices!!! Actually the price for creating a pattern is much lower - $10 is not per one square centimeter, but per 1 x 1 cm. So a 5x5 pattern would cost 5*$10 = $50. If the pattern is a rectangle, you take it as if it were a square by using the longer side (ex. pattern 6x8cm is regarded as a 8x8rectangle = 8*$10 = $80). The problem was communication between our company and the manufacturer in China, who only speaks Chinese, so that's why the information was so blurred. Zuzana ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
That sounds much better! I would be interested in doing a silk brocade if maybe some others want to go in on it for a nice medieval pattern. -Kathy my crafty blog: www.medievalartcraft.blogspot.com Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 03:26:58 -0700 From: zkraemer...@yahoo.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Subject: Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades I realized I made a mistake when typing the prices!!! Actually the price for creating a pattern is much lower - $10 is not per one square centimeter, but per 1 x 1 cm. So a 5x5 pattern would cost 5*$10 = $50. If the pattern is a rectangle, you take it as if it were a square by using the longer side (ex. pattern 6x8cm is regarded as a 8x8rectangle = 8*$10 = $80). The problem was communication between our company and the manufacturer in China, who only speaks Chinese, so that's why the information was so blurred. Zuzana ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
Elena House wrote: Wow, you know, this just suddenly put the whole medieval textile industry into perspective for me, since the type of design I most want to see in brocade is on average at least 50cm x 150cm repeat. You do the math for the cost on that one *nods* I saw a nearly perfect all-silk scarlet and yellow brocade, very medieval, at Britex, more than a dozen years ago, for $150/yard. I spent quite a while admiring it. I suspect that there are suitable top of the line brocades out there, it's just getting access to the catalogs that places like Britex uses for their ordering is impossible for the rest of us. -- Cynthia Virtue and/or Cynthia du Pre Argent Such virtue hath my pen -Shakespeare, Sonnet 81 I knew this wasn't _my_ pen! --Cynthia Virtue ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
When I was in London last month, I visited Watts Co. in Westminster. They mostly do ecclesiastical accoutrements and they had fabulous brocade. I even got to see real cloth of gold (830 pounds per metre)!!! They do have a VERY good facsimile for a mere 83 pounds per metre and they will do mail order. I picked up a couple of bags of off-cuts so that I had some samples. Anne I saw a nearly perfect all-silk scarlet and yellow brocade, very medieval, at Britex, more than a dozen years ago, for $150/yard. I spent quite a while admiring it. I suspect that there are suitable top of the line brocades out there, it's just getting access to the catalogs that places like Britex uses for their ordering is impossible for the rest of us. -- ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
So we are looking at roughly $24 per yard or $32 per yard? And you are paying $10 per .4 inches (or square inches?) for pattern design? De -Original Message- Speaking about custom design fabrics, I thought folks here may be interested in custom made brocade fabrics. Our company www.sartor.cz sells hiqh quality, tigtly woven brocades from China, mostly 50% silk brocades. We also offer making a brocade according to your wishes - your choice of pattern, colour and fiber. The offer's quite new, so we didn't yet manage to put it on the website (which has an unfinished English version, pardon me for that, we're currently working on it). The rules are as follows: Minimum order: 15 - 30 metres (15 if the fabric is suitable for our shop, 30 if we don't want to participate in the order) Price: pattermanikg fee: 10$ per cm**2 (you pay for the size of one pattern that is to be repeated on the fabric.) silk + rayon brocades: $24/metre 100% silk brocades: $32/metre Shipping: depends on the amount of fabric you order, the more you order, the cheaper the shipping. I thought this might be a good chance for people who want 100% accuracy in recreating historical costume. Let me know what do you think about it - or if you know any better orders, it is always good to know. Zuzana ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
It depends on the material, if you want 100% silk, you pay $32 per yard (actually per more than yard, one meter is a bit more) and if you want half silk half rayon, you pay $24 per yard. Half silk half rayon means warp is silk and weft is rayon. Yes, it is $10 per 0.4 square inches. You only pay for the size of the design that will be repeated on the fabric, such as here: http://www.sartor.cz/gallery/pattern.jpg In this case you'd pay for 3*7 inches = 21 = $525. This would be a very large pattern, so the cost will be high. The smaller the pattern, the lower the price. Zuzana ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
Got any of this material for sale? -Original Message- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Zuzana Kraemerova Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:00 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades It depends on the material, if you want 100% silk, you pay $32 per yard (actually per more than yard, one meter is a bit more) and if you want half silk half rayon, you pay $24 per yard. Half silk half rayon means warp is silk and weft is rayon. Yes, it is $10 per 0.4 square inches. You only pay for the size of the design that will be repeated on the fabric, such as here: http://www.sartor.cz/gallery/pattern.jpg In this case you'd pay for 3*7 inches = 21 = $525. This would be a very large pattern, so the cost will be high. The smaller the pattern, the lower the price. Zuzana ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.12.4/2081 - Release Date: 04/26/09 09:44:00 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
Yes, that's absolutely gorgous just the way it is. Janet Got any of this material for sale? It depends on the material, if you want 100% silk, you pay $32 per yard (actually per more than yard, one meter is a bit more) and if you want half silk half rayon, you pay $24 per yard. Half silk half rayon means warp is silk and weft is rayon. Yes, it is $10 per 0.4 square inches. You only pay for the size of the design that will be repeated on the fabric, such as here: http://www.sartor.cz/gallery/pattern.jpg In this case you'd pay for 3*7 inches = 21 = $525. This would be a very large pattern, so the cost will be high. The smaller the pattern, the lower the price. Zuzana ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Zuzana Kraemerova zkraemer...@yahoo.com wrote: Price: pattermanikg fee: 10$ per cm**2 (you pay for the size of one pattern that is to be repeated on the fabric.) Wow, you know, this just suddenly put the whole medieval textile industry into perspective for me, since the type of design I most want to see in brocade is on average at least 50cm x 150cm repeat. You do the math for the cost on that one (Hint: I could get one of my dream cars for less!) Now I truly feel what the average housewife would have felt, while watching the nobles walk past. That said, I am deliriously happy to hear this, and will be saving up. =} -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
