Kimiko Small wrote:
At 09:23 PM 7/28/2005, you wrote:
Wooden toothpicks would work as well as matchsticks, and are available
in every supermarket.
-Helen/Aidan
The only toothpicks I seem to find are the round ones with plasticy
things on the ends. I will have to see if I
or you might try wooden skewers (like for kebabs). They are longer than
matchsticks or toothpicks and might be easier to hang on to. I think the
ones I have in a drawer are actually bamboo and were sold in the chinese
section of some grocery store.
These are bamboo and make nasty splinters,
Elizabeth Young wrote:
or you might try wooden skewers (like for kebabs). They are longer than
matchsticks or toothpicks and might be easier to hang on to.
true, but depending on how much fabric you have to take up, the
diameter is not big enough. That's why (after tons of calculations) I
I read one instruction set that calls for pleating organza by hand and
pressing by iron, but that sounds tedious and not quite the right look. To
my eye it looks more of a set pattern crinkle in an up and down pattern,
not really pleated as in a knife pleat, if that makes sense. But I am
kinda
At 12:57 AM 7/28/2005, you wrote:
Hi Kimiko,
I have seen some danish peassants hats/hoods that has such a finely
pleated band made of lace.
They also show how this was pleated that way. They used small sticks.
Place one stick under and one over - one under and one over etc. While the
lace is
At 08:59 PM 7/27/2005, you wrote:
Find somebody with a pleating machine like they use pleating up fabric for
smocking, and do your pleating on that.
I only know of one person locally that has a pleater, and she's on vacation
till September. :-(
Kimiko