Re: [h-cost] ribbon embroidery frame, water-dissolving
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:48:59 -0500 From: E House [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] ribbon embroidery frame, water-dissolving interfacing? Also, long ago I did graphic design for an embroidery company. To back the embroidery, one of the things they used was a type of interfacing that dissolved when sprayed with water. Does anyone know the name of this stuff, or brand names of something similar but perhaps a bit more substantial? Google tear-away heat-away stabilizer and you should find Taunton Press' quick ref on stabilizers. There are wash-away versions, too while I have some in my embroidery machine's stash, I havent used it yet. I use Tearaway and Heat-Away, these are the brandnames. The ribbon is black, and all the traditional methods I've experimented with to mark the design just did not work well; there's too much fiddly detail in the design for anything that actually shows up. I'm hoping to mark the design on an easily removeable interfacing instead. (My last ditch idea is to paint the design on, but that seems like it will take forever and make it really hard to accurately render the design.) -E House I would embroider the major elements first... whatever gives the repeat length fairly quickly. My suspicion is that you're stuck doing it by hand perhaps with pins denoting the repeat. I had to do this for both of my Victorian beaded waterfall chokers as they were on royal purple black, respectively. FWIW, I didnt frame them, I just did them free-hanging. I'm a lifetime lap-quilter so this is not a surprise given what I'm used to and the fact that the beads cant be sandwiched in a frame. Yards of embroidered ribbon?! You have more patience than I. Zowie. Whatcha goin' to do with it? --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] ribbon embroidery frame, water-dissolving interfacing?
I need some bright ideas. I'm planning to make my own goldwork embroidery trim, by embroidering some heavy silk satin ribbon; I'll be doing it both on some 5/8 wide and some 1 wide ribbon. The embroidery is going to be a continuous design, and longer than any frames I've seen, so I won't be able to fit it into a normal embroidery frame without wrecking it. I thought of pinning it to a pillow, but I can't figure out any practical way to do that without accidentally embroidering into the pillow itself. Ideas? Also, long ago I did graphic design for an embroidery company. To back the embroidery, one of the things they used was a type of interfacing that dissolved when sprayed with water. Does anyone know the name of this stuff, or brand names of something similar but perhaps a bit more substantial? The ribbon is black, and all the traditional methods I've experimented with to mark the design just did not work well; there's too much fiddly detail in the design for anything that actually shows up. I'm hoping to mark the design on an easily removeable interfacing instead. (My last ditch idea is to paint the design on, but that seems like it will take forever and make it really hard to accurately render the design.) -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] ribbon embroidery frame, water-dissolving interfacing?
Responding to myself--I remembered the right term (duh) for the second question, so I have that settled, but I'm still idea-less on the first question. -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] ribbon embroidery frame, water-dissolving interfacing?
Could you possibly refit a beading loom to stretch your ribbon on? I have seen beadwork ribbons that were quite long and were rolled as they were worked on. If you created a stencil to paint the design on with it wouldn't take all that long. Which just reminded me - one time when we were painting banners we used two canvas stretchers and some of those carpenter clamps to make large frames. You could do the same in a smaller version with a couple 1x1 frames. --- E House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Responding to myself--I remembered the right term (duh) for the second question, so I have that settled, but I'm still idea-less on the first question. -E House Rebecca Burch Center Valley Farm Duncan Falls, Ohio, USA ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
