It is empire with puff sleeves with little flowers on the sleeves and a
pleated Berta?
I found a picture of the tops of two other dresses in the same showcase.
http://www.deredere.dds.nl/Troep/Jurk3.jpg
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It is empire with puff sleeves with little flowers on the sleeves and a
pleated Berta?
That is not an Empire waist. This is more properly an Empire:
http://gregcookland.com/journal/uploaded_images/picMFANapoleonEmpireGownBlog
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Marjorie
Marjorie Gilbert
author of THE RETURN,
a novel
The background two, not the foreground gown.
Ann in CT
saw the foreground gown and the portrait first, too
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From: Gilbert twgilb...@roadrunner.com
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8:07 AM
It is empire with puff sleeves
with
You know, the modern version of same. I have a large repro shade I
bought about 20 years ago. The more or less tulip shaped wire frame
was new then, and it's still in great shape. The silk it was covered
with (even though the shade is a repro) is shattering badly.
It strikes me that getting
If you use something like silk chiffon, it stretches enough to give some
leeway. Can you remove what's left of your shade to use as a pattern?
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Sharon Collier wrote:
If you use something like silk chiffon, it stretches enough to give some
leeway. Can you remove what's left of your shade to use as a pattern?
One of the panels is more or less intact, so yes. The pattern is not
really the issue, but getting the material onto the
Can you turn it upside down and attach to the lamp with the top finial and
work on it that way?
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Can you get any clues from what's left? (Were the pieces seamed together
first, and then stitched around the top and bottom? Or was every other panel
stitched to the frame, and then every *other* other panel stitched to the first
set?)
It sounds like you'll need a skill set similar to
They covered each panel separately. Looks like they first wrapped the
wire of the frame with narrow twill tape, in a spiral. I don't see any
reason to re-do that. Then they probably sewed on the panels from the
outside--not much stitching is seen from the inside, though some is, and
it's hand
