Machine sewing velvet
Jan. 20th, 2006 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisHi girls! (and boys)
Do you know what I just did?
I pinned cotton velvet (or velveteen, I haven't checked if the nap was made from the warp or the weft) right side to right side to the slinky rayon twill and sewed it. And it worked!! It almost didn't creep at all, the nap _is_ very short, but I'm still surprised it worked so well.
Now I just need to attach the sleeves and make the plastron/stomacher thing and the actual dress is finished. Then I _just_ need to make the false undersleeves, the english hood and a smock with a square low neckline and puffy sleeves. I only have high-necked smocks with puffy sleeves or low-necked smocks with straight sleeves.
Do you know what I just did?
I pinned cotton velvet (or velveteen, I haven't checked if the nap was made from the warp or the weft) right side to right side to the slinky rayon twill and sewed it. And it worked!! It almost didn't creep at all, the nap _is_ very short, but I'm still surprised it worked so well.
Now I just need to attach the sleeves and make the plastron/stomacher thing and the actual dress is finished. Then I _just_ need to make the false undersleeves, the english hood and a smock with a square low neckline and puffy sleeves. I only have high-necked smocks with puffy sleeves or low-necked smocks with straight sleeves.
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Date: 2006-01-24 06:49 am (UTC)I am mainly inspired by pictures from Holbein's first visit to England in the late 1520s-early 1530s.
Eva
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Date: 2006-01-24 09:19 pm (UTC)