left over of the
lovely cotton lace to improvise a cap and lappets for the lady? Not
that you yourself had time for it, mind you, as I well know. She looks
lovely in the dress. But lace-makers just have to find ways to add
more lace whenever we can!
Beth Schoenberg
--- in lovely, nasty-raw
Hi, Aylwen,
Have you tried Runaway? I believe Woolworth's and Coles sells it,
and possibly also Kmart. It worked when we had a red-running problem
on the huge baronial banner for Politarchopolis, which I believe you
may have seen once or twice.
Beth
On 24/06/2006, at 1:43 PM, A J
It's a great book, for those interested, and the price (so far) isn't
bad.
Books like this serve a good purpose, even when so much of their
information is way out-of-date. The fact is that things like lace are
easily destroyed in fires, floods, and wars, and early books with good
clear
On 06/06/2006, at 12:16 PM, Susan B. Farmer wrote:
If I can pull it off (and it will probably take an act of God), I want
to go to the Evolution Meeting at the end of the month (June 23-27) at
SUNY Stony Brook. Apologies to those of you who may see this more than
once ...
I've *never*
On 03/06/2006, at 12:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. And lots of clothes were still made by hand, and the patterns
reflect this, up until the late 1860s [they all were until the
1840s...and then it was considered sorta low life to have machine
made clothes, especially women's, until
Hi, Bjarne,
You always amaze me!! Making one of these is such a big project, yet
you mention it so matter-of-factly, as if it was a good idea, but a bit
of an after-thought!!
What did you use for the outer surface of the dress form? Unbleached
cotton (muslin or calico)? Linen?
On 04/06/2006, at1:27 AM, AlbertCat wrote:
My main point was that the machine, once completely accepted, which
took a
little time, changed the way clothes were cut. And even that doesn't
really hit
it fair and square. There is also the time it took to discover what a
clever
seamstress could
..It's not surprising--it usually slows down a lot during the
summer, especially during sunny weekends.
Somebody say something! :-)
Yeah, you know how hard it is to convince someone--anyone--to pin a
hem for you when the weather is this good? :P
No, but I can just imagine. Heck, I
.
There are no credits given for the owners of any of these; it's fairly
safe to assume that they all (still) belong to the Kyoto Costume
Institute.
Hope this helps!
Beth Schoenberg
--- in warm and overcast autumnal Canberra
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Or something to that effect! :-D
Beth Schoenberg
in sunny downtown Kambah, Canberra, where we've been having
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