Beautiful! And thank you for posting your sources. I had never heard of Hedgehog Handiworks. I checked them out and found they had decorative pewter lacers which would go well on costumes like this one.
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/earlyflor/3flor3.html Thank you, De -----Original Message----- Well, i know i said i had to waite with this till when i have finished the yellow dress, but i could not resist my lust to try out the mulberry silk threads i got. This is going to be a dark grey gentlemans embroidered waistcoat of 1770ies. It is vey hard to trace pattern to dark fabric, so i used my rice paper, reversed the pattern and sticked it to the backside of the taffeta. Then i used white sewingthread and small running stitches to outline the whole pattern. This worked fine, but it took some time to do. Here is one pattern repeat of the pattern. At the bottom of the page; http://www.my-drewscostumes.dk/herreveste..htm Bjarne _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume