Hi Regina, The gold guards were sewn directly onto the skirt fabric before piecing the skirt together. The skirt has a total of 16 gores on it which I carefully measured the length on before cutting so all I would have to do was turn the edge under to hem. After that I mapped out the gold pieces and cut those out; I had to paint all of the red swirls on them which was crazy time consuming so in ordre to paint only what was going to be used I really had to measure carefully. After piecing all the gold onto the velvet and making sure all the guards lined up I then sewed the 16 gores together and roll pleasted it to the waistband.
The reasoning I had behind sewing the guards on before sewing the gores together was I wanted to skirt to fall in those tubular shapes seen in many of Cranach's paintings. I figured if there was a seam at each gore it would encourage the fabric to fold in a little bit and fall the way I wanted it to. I think it worked out pretty well. :) Elizabeta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Pease" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:23 PM Subject: [h-cost] Elizabeta's Garb was: attaching feathers to a hat Elizabeta, How did you do the horizontal "stripes" on the skirt? Did you sew them straight onto the skirt fabric and then adjust the skirt from the waistband, or apply them after you had the skirt hemmed? Regina _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
