Re: [h-cost] Fur trims, was What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?

2010-12-04 Thread Kate Bunting
My current project is to trim the 17th century jacket, which I made last winter, with fur. Political correctness has made it impossible to buy old fur coats in charity shops, but a fellow reenactor kindly gave me the sleeves of a rabbit coat during the summer. I want it to look like the

Re: [h-cost] Fur trims, was What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?

2010-12-04 Thread Wicked Frau
I'll be following this post closely, as I am about to embark on a similar project. I realize you are in the UK Kate, but have you tried looking on ebay? The US one is flooded with old coats of many kinds. Sg On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Kate Bunting k.m.bunt...@derby.ac.ukwrote: My