I know - sometimes its way more effort to take something apart than to make something new from scratch!!
Could the velvet pass for stamped velvet?
I'm ordering "REAL" stiff buckram from Whaley's. Ninya has swatches of it at KW open day and I was amazed at how stiff it was. It was like a board! I want to use it for my middle class kirtle and see if I can have a bodice that has minimal steel/rigilene boning in it.
Mine will be side laced as well - I want to be able to get into it easily without having to rely on Edmund to dress me all the time! After all, that what MOST women would have done. Its only the gentry and nobility who would have had huge amounts of help!
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Date: 2006-03-27 04:59 pm (UTC)Could the velvet pass for stamped velvet?
I'm ordering "REAL" stiff buckram from Whaley's. Ninya has swatches of it at KW open day and I was amazed at how stiff it was. It was like a board! I want to use it for my middle class kirtle and see if I can have a bodice that has minimal steel/rigilene boning in it.
Mine will be side laced as well - I want to be able to get into it easily without having to rely on Edmund to dress me all the time! After all, that what MOST women would have done. Its only the gentry and nobility who would have had huge amounts of help!