I chose to line with wool for two reasons. reason 1) Drea sais that the shrinerose gown was lined with wool, so i figured i'd go with that. "This gown bodice will have three pieces: one back, and two front pieces. Lining is optional. The shinrone gown was partially lined with wool; it is a rather complex lining process, involving extending the bodice pattern down and folding the excess fabric up on the inside. I tried it, and it made quite a respectable gown bodice. "
reason 2) it is fairly easy to make the gowns reversable, so I do so, and I figured that if I wanted wool on the outside, and i wanted it reversable, I needed wool on both sides. reasson 3) not a big deal, but if one wants wool, one of the reasons that one wants wool is that it hanges diffrently then linen, and so lining with linen would change the hang? this one i am not too sure of cause i have not done much with wool in the past. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Rebecca Schmitt <lotsofteap...@charter.net> wrote: > I'm curious why you decided to line with wool as well as use wool for the > top fabric? Most of the extant garments I can think of (and, admittedly, my > memory on this is not spectacular!) are lined with linen. > > I made an overgown of this sort a few years back, with the outside a > mid-to-lightweight wool and the lining linen; I'm pretty sure I did not use > an interlining of any sort. I it cut away in the front quite a bit, so it > really doesn't come together much past the shoulder straps. It's very comfy, > although it does wrinkle some. That doesn't really bother me much - the ease > of movement as I chase my 3-year-old is much more important! > > ************************ > Rebecca Schmitt > aka Agness Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence, Bristol Renn Faire > ************************* > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com >> [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of J A Urbik >> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:40 AM >> To: h-costume@mail.indra.com >> Subject: [h-cost] Flemish Dress >> >> Hi all, am making this year's edition of the whole flemish >> dress, this time I am making a Gored Kirtle >> (http://www.elizabethancostume.net/kirtlepat/gored.html) and >> an overdress >> (http://www.elizabethancostume.net/lowerclass/makeflem.html#gown). >> In the past I had made both under and overdress out of >> linen, because I was mostly doing summer events. >> >> However, this time I am going to make the overdress out of >> wool, with wool as the lining. Both are fairly light weight, >> and we will see about how hot it is (i actually think it >> should be book, at least for non-extremely hot days, and for >> the really hot days, a couple of pieces of ice down the >> bodice should do wonders). >> >> What I would like advise about would be should I put an >> addition layer of sturdy linen or something as an underlining >> on the bodice, or will the just the wool be ok? >> >> I know I will need a strip of something sturdy down the front >> edges, from previous experience with the style, but I have >> not worked too much in wool, so i don't know how it will go. >> >> The gored kirtle that the overdress will go on top of is a >> fashion fabric and a lining, both of sturdy linen, but not >> heavyweight. I wear size 16/18 and am about a B cup (about >> 5'4 and 180 pounds) if that influances your advise. Thanks >> for all help. >> >> >> jordana >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
