Hi, Just wanted to mention that I'm now trying to do a version of Victorian quilled fabric trim on a 1/12 scale evening dress. Following what I could glean from the fashion plate I'm following and some written accounts of such trims, I've used bias-cut strips of silk organza. I stitch them into tubes about 3/32" in diameter, turn them inside out using 1/16" dowels, then insert two of those thin, double-pointed knitting needles used for socks, stitch between them, and gather. It's pretty nice, though I think in future I might use wire instead of the knitting needles to get something a little smaller, but there's a limit to what I can turn inside out, too.
What's interesting, though, is what the bias tubes do when gathered down the middle. The fabric sort of flares and poufs from being bias -- very different from what happens when I gather a tiny tube that's cut with the grain. There's also something SO Industrial Revolution about the massive waste of fabric in this kind of trim. Anyway, I'm having fun with it. I've just been trimming the berthe; next, nine rows of quilling for the skirt. Lauren M. Walker lauren.wal...@comcast.net _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
