Subject: RE: [h-cost]Canadian Smocking
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I'm going to assume that you meant to suggest this portrait as an
example of Canadian smocking, but I don't think it is. It's possible
that it's slashing-and-pinking, but in fact on close inspection it looks
more like embroidery meant to look like slashing-and-pinking. Or it may
be that this
Those are spangles and not cloth of gold. And though Canadians like to claim
the smocking technique, it was done way before Canada was Canada. I vaguely
remember seeing it once on a extent 1700s French stomacher.
De
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I'm going to assume that you meant to suggest this
The strapwork on the sleeves, I'm guessing. But I think it's actual
strapwork, and not smocking
--Sue
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From: Saragrace Knauf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost]Canadian Smocking
If you look at the dress it is not slashing. It could be strips of velvet
woven together but I am more inclined to believe that it is lattice work.
The embroidery (or small pinking) and the spangles are emphisizing the the
woven look.
http://www.savvyseams.com/techniques/canadian.php
I wasn't referring to the spangles, but to the pattern of longer and
shorter lines, which looks like slashing and pinking, but I don't think
it is. If you look closely, each line looks like it is embroidered on
top of the fabric with metallic thread. I meant to suggest that this
may in fact
OK. I'll ask the ignorant question ...
What *is* Canadian Smocking and how is it different from any other
kind of smocking?
susan
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Susan Farmer
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From: Susan B. Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost]Canadian Smocking
OK. I'll ask the ignorant question ...
What *is* Canadian Smocking and how is it different from any
Quoting Elizabeth Walpole [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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OK. I'll ask the ignorant question ...
What *is* Canadian Smocking and how is it different from any other
kind of smocking?
susan
I had the same confusion until I
It's called Canadian smocking.
http://www.savvyseams.com/techniques/canadian.php
It goes by other names as well, as this page will tell you. It is incredibly
consumptive but its well worth it. It took me a good couple of hours to
grasp how it's done; I am left handed and have to mentally invert
Carmen Beaudry wrote:
http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html This looks like the back of
lattice smocking.
That's not a valid link. Do you recall the title and artist?
Dawn
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Carmen Beaudry wrote:
http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html This looks like the back of
lattice smocking.
That's not a valid link. Do you recall the title and artist?
Dawn
sightry this one: http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi by Bronzino
Melusine
http://www.tudor-portraits.com/Elizabeth12.jpg
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Quoting Carmen Beaudry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Carmen Beaudry wrote:
http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html This looks like the back of
lattice smocking.
That's not a valid link. Do you recall the title and artist?
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