One difficulty is that cloth was fulled much better in various historic
periods than what's available now. There are some fulled fabrics available,
but more expensive. Anyway, as pointed out earlier, sometimes raw edges are
appropriate.
For a recreation in competition, I personally would
At 01:58 PM 5/8/2009, you wrote:
One difficulty is that cloth was fulled much better in various
historic periods than what's available now. There are some fulled
fabrics available, but more expensive. Anyway, as pointed out
earlier, sometimes raw edges are appropriate.
So what
And note, there is no right way to achieve your compensation. In your
example, I could also see binding all the seam edges and then flat-felling
the seams. You could also zig-zag stitch or even serge the edges as well.
None of these techniques would be any better than the others. The
On May 8, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Käthe Barrows wrote:
Of course, there are periods where a raw edge is more authentic
than finished edges.
But if you'd documented the lack of seam finish, and if your other
hand-sewing was good, the lack of seam finish would have looked
deliberate, not like
On Friday 08 May 2009 2:58:59 pm Carol Kocian wrote:
On May 8, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Käthe Barrows wrote:
Of course, there are periods where a raw edge is more authentic
than finished edges.
But if you'd documented the lack of seam finish, and if your other
hand-sewing was good, the lack of
A raw edge is one thing; a seam with loose threads hanging off of it is
another. *That* sort of seam is not period for Anglo-Saxon; clothing took too
many resources (both of material and person power) to make for it to be
tolerable to create shoddy clothing.
Edges shedding loose threads is
On May 7, 2009, at 2:19 AM, Käthe Barrows wrote:
What if the judges don't like my historical period?
This shouldn't matter if they're honest. Case in point, all three
of us
judges gagged when we saw that someone was entering that 1959 Dior
outfit.
We' were all old enough to have developed
On May 7, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
It's probably bad manners to say this on the list rather than
privately, but I'm a bit concerned for what the lurkers might think
if this isn't responded to.
No, it's really not bad manners.
If that had been something I entered, I would
that, but
it was the best.
Kathleen Norvell
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On May 7
Sorry. I guess people couldn't see how much I was laughing when I wrote it
- the entrant saw our actual reaction at the time. IIRC, the entrant
laughed *with us* when we said all this in front of her, so I didn't think
she'd be offended when I said it again. (If she was offended, I'll
apologize
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