Hi Becky; Here is a link to my gown: http://tinyurl.com/dmpcb
Elizabeta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Becky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Elizabeta's Garb was: attaching feathers to a hat Can you send a link so I can see the costume? Sounds like what I'm doing and it might help me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crimson Vision" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Elizabeta's Garb was: attaching feathers to a hat > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
