http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/02/21/back-to-school/ The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:25:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/02/21/back-to-school/#comment-1106 Sandy Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:49:51 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=320#comment-1106 Tech question: What do you use to bone the stays? Plastic/nylon? Steel? (Spare whales being in short supply . . . .) The channels look wide for hemp cord. 'Conventional wisdom' is that steel wasn't used until sometime in the 19th century, but it takes a woman with a very spare figure to achieve the inverted-cone silhouette of the 16th-17th-18th century, without something that stiff. - I'm currently trying to build German dress of about 1580 to 1590, and while most German woodcuts show more curve (fortunately, as I'm a bit on the curvy side), support for which is probably achievable with hemp cord in narrow channels, I'm still curious. Yes, I'm asking for your research, but I promise to credit you if I ever write my project up! Tech question: What do you use to bone the stays? Plastic/nylon? Steel? (Spare whales being in short supply . . . .) The channels look wide for hemp cord. ‘Conventional wisdom’ is that steel wasn’t used until sometime in the 19th century, but it takes a woman with a very spare figure to achieve the inverted-cone silhouette of the 16th-17th-18th century, without something that stiff. - I’m currently trying to build German dress of about 1580 to 1590, and while most German woodcuts show more curve (fortunately, as I’m a bit on the curvy side), support for which is probably achievable with hemp cord in narrow channels, I’m still curious.
Yes, I’m asking for your research, but I promise to credit you if I ever write my project up!

]]> http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/02/21/back-to-school/#comment-1104 Devon Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:55:39 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=320#comment-1104 With opening day not so far away, I am thinking, for the sake of my own visit, I might as well wait until the site is open as it may be more interesting to my husband. Do you know when you will have the two lace pillows up and running? So far, all the fun is being had by the embroiderers. Devon With opening day not so far away, I am thinking, for the sake of my own visit, I might as well wait until the site is open as it may be more interesting to my husband. Do you know when you will have the two lace pillows up and running? So far, all the fun is being had by the embroiderers.
Devon

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