New fabric

[frualeydis]

When I was away in eastern Sweden, holding lectures, I also visited two fabric stores. Since I didn't want to carry the stuff with me on the train - I had enough stuff already - my friend B-M offered to bring it here when she came for herzeloyde's birthday party toady. So now I have my pretty, pretty fabric at home.

The dark brown wool with minty "spots" is for a 40s skirt and waist coat. The mint green wool (with some poly) flannel, which I had before, perfectly matches the "spots" and will be made into a jacket with a collar from the brown and a skirt - which gives me a suit with two different skirts.



The rayon brocades with metal threads will be trim and revers on my coming Swedish/German loose gown from the 1560s. They do NOT photograph well, but both the gold and the dark red one are gorgeous.

Comments

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

Beautiful brocades! Are they soft or more stiff?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Rather stiff and I'm going to mount them on velvet, which is stiff in itself, so I will look like a velvet and brocade cone. With puff sleeves.

/Eva