French-style farthingale

[alliette_d]

Having just cleared one very longstanding task from my task list, I'm turning to the next - making a corded petticoat or a farthingale. Haven't decided which yet. There are patterns for it in a couple of books I have so it shouldn't be a complicated task. Except that I want to make the farthingale that would give me the french-style skirts. I don't

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[elefianora]

Well I was going to refer you to the spanish pattern, it will certainly work for the first several portraits

[pinkdiamond]

I get that curve to the hem if I simply put a very long bone in the bottom hoop and slightly smaller further up ;)
It's the tension of the hoops in the casings that work to make a domed or bell or conical shape as well as the angle at the side. I look at those funny curved hemmed farthingales and think to myself "hmm that's a badly fitted bottom hoop" rather than regional variation, mainly because it only appears in the map book :) Which has some funky stuff happening with dress in my regions ;)

But you definitely do not need any sort of fancy patterning ;)

And I always recommend casings rather than tucks, I have seen no evidence of hoops in tucks. Tucks or hoops for different purposes- and different times. And most of the textual information for fartingales mention contrasting colours or textures for the casings :) It's pretty nifty and why I have the colour combo I have currently of green and crimson ;)

[alliette_d]

Do you mean just basically using the hoops to control the width/shape rather than using the pattern?
BTW - do you know whether the Alcega pattern is ok to use for the narrower profile (even without the curves in the sides, the skirt/farthingale is quite obviously narrower than what I'm seeing in English pictures)?

[elefianora]

That's a gorgeous dress in your profile pic. Who is the artist and who is it of?

[angel_a]

@elefianora - that is a photo of pinkdiamond herself, at home in one of her own creations. :) Go to www.glittersweet.com and you will see more of her work.

@alliette_d thanks for throwing up those pictures, I am looking at doing the pink dress with the black garding at this link http://web.comhem.se/~u41200125/bilder/templedeLyon.jpg as it is nice to see other examples of the dress I am looking at doing. :)