If you're looking for sew-on rhinestone elements such as buckles, buttons, shapes such as dragonflies or flowers, etc, try contacting www.such-a-deal.com.
Don't ask for "rhinestones", I was reprimanded for calling them that, what he has is "crystal". Never mind that they're exactly the same thing. Anyway, he only recently started repping this line, and I happened to stop in at the store when he was unpacking the sample suitcases. Oh My God. This is the best quality stuff I've ever seen. It looks like fine jewelry, most of the settings are gold or silver plated, and the prices reflect that. But if you're looking for something special, and don't mind buying in wholesale lots of a dozen pieces, this is the place to go for top of the line. He won't be putting the crystal line on the website, so if you want something you'll need to contact him directly, but it could be worth it. Margo On May 23, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Sharon Collier wrote: > The ones I've worked with have one set of prongs that go through the fabric, > then the stone is set into it, trapping the fabric between the backing and > the stone. But if you sewed the backing on first on top of the fabric, then > set the stone, you wouldn't harm the fabric. And you could remove them > later. > Sharon > > -----Original Message----- > From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On > Behalf Of Lynn Downward > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:57 PM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: Re: [h-cost] rhinestone accents > > Sharon, > > will that work? It seems that the settings I've seen have double prongs - > one for the stone and one to go through the fabric. > > I;d also like to apologize to Denise for kind of taking over her question. > > LynnD > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Sharon Collier > <sha...@collierfam.com>wrote: > >> Just sew on the back first, using an "X" stitch, without the stone in it. >> The back will be attached, but not going through the fabric. Then set >> the stone into the prongs. >> Sharon C. >> > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
