How many relatively accurate (for any period) premade historic
embroidery designs are out there? Is it essential to digitize most of
your own to get anything decent?
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on making historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
On 10/28/2012 2:37 PM, lynlee o wrote:
USB's are great. If you have trouble using a new one, check the size. My fancy
Tajima won't read more than 1MB. It can be hard to find small ones now so I
bought up big. The designs take so little room that you can get heaps on each
one.
Lynlee
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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:25:55 -0700
Subject: [h-cost] How to clean vintage metal presser feet?
I discovered that low-shank, side-clamping vintage feet will work on my
Bernina 1008 with the aid of one of the adapters sold to me with an eBay
lot of modern generic feet. There are sizable box lots of suitable
vintage feet on eBay, at lower prices than one Bernina foot or even most
generic feet.
I have avoided buying any feet that looked rusty in the photos. I still
think they are grubby and I want to clean them before putting them in
contact with my sewing projects. I am not sure what metal they are made
of, and since they are not all the same brand and date they may not be
all the same metal. My guess is steel or a steel alloy but I am not
sure. Some feet appear to be chromed, most not. One of the attachments
has a black finish.
What is the safest way to clean them?
Also, I now have several vintage rufflers and tuckers that will fit my
machine because one or two of each seem to be in every box lot. They
appear to be rather stiff, but I am not sure whether they are supposed
to be oiled, or what.
Any info from anyone who restores vintage sewing attachments would be
appreciated.
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books of historic sewing patterns
www.lavoltapress.com
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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:53:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Embroiderry software
This means you probably don't want a Husqvarna. While they are great
machines (hubby has one and loves it), they will only use the
particular USB drive sold by them. When he lost his, it was over $75
to get a new one.
Sandy
At 12:10 PM 10/27/2012, you wrote:
Yes, Embird seems to have a lot of fans, as offering good features
for the price. As for how the designs get onto the machine, I
definitely want a machine with a USB drive.
Thanks,
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on historic sewing
www.lavoltapress.com
www.facebook.com/LavoltaPress
I am thinking of buying a Brother PE770, which is a
fairly inexpensive dedicated embroidery machine. It takes a flash drive
so I can import designs from my computer.
I want to do historic embroidery designs and I want to create or at
least customize my own. I'm used to using graphic design software (scan
editing and draw programs), but I know little about embroidery design
software. Any suggestions?
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on making historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
International Costumers' Guild Archivist
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"Those Who Fail to Learn History
Are Doomed to Repeat It;
Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly -
Why They Are Simply Doomed."
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"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
-- C. Y. 4971
Andromeda
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