I've only ever made 16th through 18th century stays and boned bodices, but I
get silk embroidery floss and make a 4 or 8 strand braid. Phiala's String
Page (http://www.stringpage.com/) has good instructions on these. I find
these work excellently well, and are not too time-consuming to make.
Right now, for convenience and in the interest of stash reduction, I'm using
1/8 and 1/4 silk ribbon, leftover from my last round of silk ribbon
embroidery. It's not very satisfactory, but I could not figure out a good
alternative.
20 years ago I bought a huge industrial spool of 1/4
Certainly not period correct, but I use lacing cord-by-the spool from
Greenberg Hammer and using a narrow zig-zag stich on the machine, I stitch
about 1.5 down each end a couple of times (actualy I stitch about 3 while
stretching the cord to make it as narrow as possible, then cut it from the
For corsets I make I use really big grommets. So a knot in the end of
whatever I'm using for lacing is fine, fits right through the holes.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Kate Pinner pinn...@mccc.edu wrote:
Certainly not period correct, but I use lacing cord-by-the spool from
Greenberg
One way to keep the ends from coming out the holes is to allow extra length and
creating a decorative knot. I'm learning Chinese knotwork and love it for trim
a well as 'stay-put' knots. SOme people call them frogs but these are the most
elegant knots I've ever seen. I'm buying this book when
Just be a merchant trader's wife, as they usually are rich, and involved in
importing in fine fabrics and other fineries that people bought. A tailor was
not paid a whole lot to make up those fine fabrics into garments, and was
considered just a craftsmen. And women didn't seem to be allowed
I have a new friend whose daughter inherited a large wooden loom - which
unfortunately was disassembled.
Does anyone know of a website for general information about reassembling a very large loom? He knows almost nothing about the loom
(it's in another state). His daughter could not find any
My wide, 8-harness jack floor loom was made so the back beam can be
taken off for transport, which makes it slightly smaller and lighter but
not a whole lot. Which may or not be your situation. See if there is a
maker's label on the loom, search the web, and ask them what to do. Or
better yet,
At 05:58 PM 7/27/2009, you wrote:
I have a new friend whose daughter inherited a large wooden loom -
which unfortunately was disassembled.
Does anyone know of a website for general information about
reassembling a very large loom? He knows almost nothing about the
loom (it's in another
