Donations
May be sent to
Plimoth Plantation
c/o Kim Corben, Development
PO Box 1620
Plymouth, MA 02362
Please write on your check or enclose with your contribution a note saying:
“Restricted to Embroidered Jacket Project” or something to that effect.
And thank you so much for asking!
Cheryl asked how much we need. I will sweep together the estimates and let you know in dollars, but here’s a list of expenses.
Every time we have an embroidery session we need to buy food supplies. It is most cost effective, not to mention most delicious to have Marcia cooking for us, we spend much less than if we bought food through a restaurant, but depending on number of participants and number of days we need $200-400.
We need to buy some supplies for the lace making; pins, prickers, cards for the prickings and some other things.
We need to buy the silver and gold for the teardrop spangles.
We need to buy the gold and silver threads for the lace.
We’ll need more GST, especially the first three colors - bisse, carnation and redde.
These are just materials costs; I’ll have to look up the figures on what we allowed (in the grant application) for a hired embroideress for the vines. Plus, I’m sure I’m forgetting something….
Ah, yes, I was just reminded about buying the sequins, the little round bits that’ll be sewn onto the cloth itself. (These were and, I think, still are made by coiling a wire and smacking it sharply to flatten it, Susan. The teardrop ones, though, were punched out of a flat piece of metal, almost a metal ribbon. The historic spangles themselves told us, by the striations visible at high magnification, by the ‘burls’ on the edges of the spangle and the edge of the hole, and by the irregular spangles, the ones punched too close to the edge of the ribbon or too close to their neighbor spangle. That’s the abridged version, but more will be coming soon, and with photos.)
Tricia has promised more blogs, including instructions for the plaited braid stitch and more on the teardrop spangle quest. I have on hand a few more blogs written by Wendy on spangle history, teardrop and other shapes, and I will start with those tomorrow, hopefully.
See you then.
Tags: , donations, gilt sylke twist, Lace, plaited braid stitch, sequins, Spangles, thread, vines
March 12th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I was just thinking that in May many of us are getting $600 checks from the government for spending on the economy. Maybe we could all send in a chunk of this “found money” to stimulate our favorite suppliers! I know I will plan on it and hopefully it will come in time to help.