Thanks for all your input. I've used that technique for belt loops and tacking
linings in place, but never knew the name bride, and also never thought to
use it as a reinforcement.
When using it as a neck opening slash reinforcement, do you think that it would
be a short bar attached near the
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From: Kathryn Pinner pinn...@mccc.edu
Subject: [h-cost] Secondary question - bride ?
Thanks for all your input. I've used that technique for belt loops and
tacking linings in place, but never knew the name bride, and also never
thought to use it as a
That would certainly reinforce it. Do you do the same for the lower end of side
seams when they are open flaps and the cuffs?
Kate
When using it as a neck opening slash reinforcement, do you think that it
would be a short bar attached near the point on both sides, or would it be
worked
That would certainly reinforce it. Do you do the same for the lower end of
side seams when they are open flaps and the cuffs?
Kate
Usually not the cuffs, unless the person I'm sewing for puts a lot of stress
on that seam, but certainly on the side slits.
Carmen
I've put little gussets there, but like the idea of a bride better. Thanks!
Kate
That would certainly reinforce it. Do you do the same for the lower
end of side seams when they are open flaps and the cuffs?
Kate
Usually not the cuffs, unless the person I'm sewing for puts a lot of stress
Hi Laurie,
A quick google didn't turn up much but I did find this:
da Monticello, Catarina [Joyce Cottrell] Since You Ask: Hill
Bucknell Patterns for the 16th Century. Compleat Anachronist 40,
1988.
Which led me, eventually, digging under the bed!, to Compleat
Anachronists #38, 39 AND
I do not, since neither is a slash, and the flat fell seam helps take
any strain. I usually put gussets at the bottom of the side seams,
but neither gets the same stress that the bottom of the neck opening.
I also buttonhole stitch around the bottom of the slash, beyond the
point where a rolled
Hello again. Im working away on my Civil War era ensemble, and my
question for today is: seam treatments for skirts--if I am using an
unterlining, rather than a separately made lining, should the seams be
finished in some way, left raw, or sewn together at the edge with a
running stitch?
The skirts I have seen had seams finished by hand overcastting. But not with
the seams together-you might need to let it out.
Kim
BTW--I serge mine. Who's going to see them?
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Actually, this is for a competition piece, so the judges ARE going to be
looking at it.
Do you mean, that each skirt panel is hand-overcasted separately?
Because Im not sure that makes sense--I was expecting, that after the
seam was in, either #1) the raw seam edges were overcast together, #2)
The most common treatment I've found on mid-19th century original garments
has both seam allowances pressed to one side. If the selvage edge has been
not been used, both seam allowances are overcast together. If the selvage
edge has been used, then they're just pressed to one side. During this
Usually not the cuffs, unless the person I'm sewing for puts a lot of stress on
that seam, but certainly on the side slits.
I will do a bar tack on the seams where they open at the cuffs which is not
a bride of course. And the side slits usually have a small gusset set into
where they
Thank you so much--this was JUST what I wanted to know. In my case, I am
actually using the selvages, but they don't show up on every seam, so I
will probably just overcast everything to make it look consistent. I
actually did flat-felled seams ont he hoops and will carry it through for
hte
The most common treatment I've found on mid-19th century original garments
has both seam allowances pressed to one side. If the selvage edge has been
not been used, both seam allowances are overcast together. If the selvage
edge has been used, then they're just pressed to one side. During this
The skirts I have seen had seams finished by hand overcastting. But not with
the seams together-you might need to let it out.
**
With skirts this full, most letting out is done with redistributing the fabric
as opposed to letting a seam out. Besides, the seam allowances are like
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