Re: [h-cost] preserving patterns — paper
>>I rarely use commercial patterns; usually I would draft them >>out of a book onto paper. >I trace out the pattern on muslin and put any marks that I may need on it. It >also saves time in the long run because you won't need to do any >pinning when you lay the pattern out on fabric. Both of the above are true for me too. I'm a very lazy costumer for all that I like high-end results. I like to handle & fiddle w/ my patts, mockups & finished garment as little as possible. Part of this attitude is that I keep all my old mocks & drafts & notes neatly organized in 2 file cabinets in the garage. They're done on heavily starched muslin and/or butcher paper (comes in big wide rolls that last for years) and/or on the back side of D and E size mechanical drawings done on "vellem". It's not real vellem, it's the kind that CAD drafters use & goes in a plotter. This stuff will out last me. It's guaranteed 75 years archival quality, and I'm recycling. As for the starched muslin, I can draw on it, snip it to fit, pin it on a person and gather or pleat it, then press it back to flat. It will even drape a little, unlike any paper pattern. I love going to the pattern file cabinet, pulling out something I did a decade ago to use as a starting place. --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] preserving patterns paper
I want to buy a roll of florist´s wrapping paper for pattern making. It´s sheer enough for tracing, sort of stiff and sturdy and it is thin so that patterns can be stored folded. However, they sell only very big rolls and I can´t decide on a color yet... Hanna At 05:38 26.06.2008, you wrote: We use drafting/tracing paper. It's 36" wide, so many pattern pieces fit on one width. It's really transparent, erasable, and pretty durable. It gets a bit brittle after about 5 years but not too much. We used to get it at Office Depot, but we now get it at our university's bookstore - with the supplies for the architecture students. (Which is also a source for good pencils, erasers, and various curves and templates) Sandy At 04:02 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote: I totally agree with the Christmas paper. You can sometimes find it with grid patterns on the back side. I usually just use my tracing wheel & the tracing paper for sewing, especially when the paper is multi sized on heavy paper. A little more expensive but very well worth it if you plan to use the pattern several times is artist velum or erasable velum. It is slightly translucent and easy to work with. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [h-cost] preserving patterns paper> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Carol Kocian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> >>> What is your favorite method of preserving patterns to keep them intact?> "Those Who Fail To Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It; Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly -- Why They Are Simply Doomed. Achemdro'hm "The Illusion of Historical Fact" -- C.Y. 4971 Andromeda ___ 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
Re: [h-cost] preserving patterns paper
We use drafting/tracing paper. It's 36" wide, so many pattern pieces fit on one width. It's really transparent, erasable, and pretty durable. It gets a bit brittle after about 5 years but not too much. We used to get it at Office Depot, but we now get it at our university's bookstore - with the supplies for the architecture students. (Which is also a source for good pencils, erasers, and various curves and templates) Sandy At 04:02 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote: I totally agree with the Christmas paper. You can sometimes find it with grid patterns on the back side. I usually just use my tracing wheel & the tracing paper for sewing, especially when the paper is multi sized on heavy paper. A little more expensive but very well worth it if you plan to use the pattern several times is artist velum or erasable velum. It is slightly translucent and easy to work with. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [h-cost] preserving patterns paper> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Carol Kocian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> >>> What is your favorite method of preserving patterns to keep them intact?> "Those Who Fail To Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It; Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly -- Why They Are Simply Doomed. Achemdro'hm "The Illusion of Historical Fact" -- C.Y. 4971 Andromeda ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] preserving patterns — paper
I totally agree with the Christmas paper. You can sometimes find it with grid patterns on the back side. I usually just use my tracing wheel & the tracing paper for sewing, especially when the paper is multi sized on heavy paper. A little more expensive but very well worth it if you plan to use the pattern several times is artist velum or erasable velum. It is slightly translucent and easy to work with. > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:04:37 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] preserving patterns — paper> > On Wed, Jun > 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Carol Kocian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> >>> What is > your favorite method of preserving patterns to keep them intact?> >>> In the > past, I have fused the tissue to muslin, but those were *very* simple> >>> > children's play clothes, and eyeballing the cutting line for a smaller size> > >>> was simple.> >> >> > I rarely use commercial patterns; usually I would > draft them out of a> > book onto paper.> >> > My favorite paper source: If > anyone is near a large printing plant, call> > and ask if they print on web > presses, and if so wold they give you a butt> > roll?> >> > My favorite > pattern paper is Christmas gift wrap. Not just any old> gift wrap but the > glossy stuff you can usually only get at Christmas.> The back side takes a > marker beautifully and it's sturdy enough to use> over and over. Also, it's > just more fun. :)> > MaggiRos> -- > Maggie Secara> ~Coming in July from > Popinjay Press> A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603:> Elizabethan > commonplaces for writers, actors, & re-enactors> ISBN: 978-0-9818401-0-9> > ___> h-costume mailing list> > h-costume@mail.indra.com> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _ Introducing Live Search cashback . It's search that pays you back! http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=introsrchcashback ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
