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femkes_follies ([personal profile] femkes_follies) wrote2009-11-29 05:05 pm
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Fabric connundrum

I was at JoAnns, looking for something entirely unrelated, and ran across some fabric that I'm now of two minds about.

It's a "Holiday" fabric, of poly taffeta, with a flocked pattern. Normally, something I would avoid like the plague. However, it's a gunmetal color, with black flocking, in a pattern that looks very, very, very close to the skirt in this portrait:

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Caterina_van_Hemessen_Portrait_of_a_Woman_with_a_Dog.jpg/458px-Caterina_van_Hemessen_Portrait_of_a_Woman_with_a_Dog.jpg /> Now, this fabric wouldn't drape well. But wouldn't have to, given the style. It's almost an invert of the brocade painted. What do y'all think?

[identity profile] asagormsdottir.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Buy it and smile. These fabrics seem to wash much better these days, you may get away with that too. Nice find.

[identity profile] lorihalia.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Do it!

I keep changing my own stance on synthetics. Hot, funny feeling, weird drape sometimes.. But on the other hand, cheap, sometimes much better designs, did I mention cheap?

[identity profile] ablackram.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
since it is for a skirt, I would say go for it. Then you wouldn't need as much in the way of petticoats/stiffener. Thx for the help on the quilt