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[CecilsTanequin]

Lady Cecil-I like that use of pinking on that tab trim.
  You folded a strip of fabric longways, snipped the holes then backed it with a contrast color?
  I am going to experiment with that technique; it looks a like a nice way to add small detail and color without a huge amount of sewing.....I imagine you had plenty of that with those panes !

Yeah I took strips of the orange leather, marked the intervals on the backside, snipped out the wedges and folded it over the strip of bagged out burgundy velvet. Call me crazy but I like my skirting to have its own skirting!

[Irma]

Lady Cecils - it's so striking and so precise.

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

This is a project my Lord Toki and I are working on. He will do the leather work, I will do lacing, modify the chain mail, sew the outer tunic is suede and the under tunic and breeches in heavy cloth



The start of the abdomen belt armor

[isabelladangelo]

DSC03379 par Isabella, on ipernity

I'm hand sewing a mid 16th century Italian dress out of some lovely cotton brocade I picked up last year at Joanns.  The only reason I'm hand sewing it is that I needed *something* to do on the way home back from the beach in the car.    

However, I'm at the point I'd like to add trim to the bodice and I'm not sure which trim I like best.   The rose velvet looks lovely but I think it might be too plain.  The cream and orange is okay and goes but I'm not sure about it either.   The pink and gold looks really nice when the other two trims aren't there but it is a bit thin.  Any preferences? 

[Stuben]

The rose velvet is out, the cream and orange goes good color wise but too much busy on busy patterns so I would go with the pink and gold.

[AngieT]

I like the pink and gold.  I don't think it's too thin. 

[PollyPoPo]

Depending on how wide you want the trim, you could always stack or go side by side.  Say two rows of the red, butted together with either of the other ones down the middle, hiding the seam and making the trim 3 times as wide.

[gem]

What kind of Italian? For some reason, when I first read your post, I was thinking (b/c evidently I can't read  ) late 15th c. giornea, in which case I vote for the gimp/braid. But since that's not what you're making, that vote is irrelevant! LOL

I really like the orange jacquard trim, just on principle; it reminds me of Assisi work, like you see on Italian aprons sometimes.

[Stuben]

I realized last night that its been over a year and I still haven't started on any garb. I been working and quilting but the PARF season is quickly approaching. So today is the day to get started. I have the fashon fabric and liner cut out and together on a doublet using Simplictiy 4059.

[isabelladangelo]

Thank you everyone!   



Gem, this is the style I'm going for.  I recently found out the dress in the portrait is green and the trim is gold - not that it shows up that way on anyone's monitor!   So far, I have five votes for pink, two for orange, and no love for the rose.   I think pink may be the way to go.   

Stuben, I really like the plain red.  Is that the lining or the fashion fabric?  That would look really neat with some pewter buttons. 

[Stuben]

The solid is the liner and the brocade is the outside. I been trying to decide on big buttons or maybe gold clasps. Here's an update. I have the shoulder pieces made and basted onto the fashion fabric and getting ready to put the liner in.



The brocade is supposed to be a cotton blend but it feels mostly poly but I decided to use it anyway. The liner is a mostly cotton blend. I'm hoping its going to breathe enough. I guess only time will tell.

[Stuben]

My stopping place for now.  I work 60 hrs a week so might not finish it until next weekend.

[Rowan MacD]

  Stuben-I'm loving that shoulder treatment.  Did you draft it?

[Stuben]

  Rowan, I changed the shoulder pieces. I started out cutting a spikey looking pattern but I liked the reverse piece better so I used it. I wanted to use piping on them too but I only had enough fabric for one go at them and didn't want to risk messing up.

[gem]

Thank you everyone!   



Gem, this is the style I'm going for.  I recently found out the dress in the portrait is green and the trim is gold - not that it shows up that way on anyone's monitor!   So far, I have five votes for pink, two for orange, and no love for the rose.   I think pink may be the way to go.   

Well, now the red velvet makes TOTAL sense! (Your damask is PERFECT! So perfect!) So now I vote velvet. Maybe velvet + gimp, b/c that inspiration pic trim looks more elaborate than just a solid ribbon...? Ooh, or maybe you could overdye or paint the cream/orange jacquard trim....