Comments | lifeofglamour: First linen test ruff completed

lifeofglamour

First linen test ruff completed

Mar 11, 2012 19:15

I took some pictures to show the process because this is, without a doubt, the most accurate period ruff I am capable of producing. It is all, every stitch of it, completed by hand, and it is all, every stitch of it, based upon documented extant examples and techniques. ( Read more... )

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sarahbellem March 12 2012, 02:51:53 UTC

Awesome! I really love the effect, even unstarched. You can definitely see where this developed into the later falling ruffs of the 17th century, but I can't wait to see it in all its starchy glory!

Also I'm jealous of your long neck. I feel like I look like a dork in big ruffs because I have a short neck and no chin... Hope you don't mind if I live vicariously through you. ;)

sarahbellem March 12 2012, 03:52:06 UTC

Oh, and I meant to say that I have never been able to master the spit roll technique... Teach me, O wise one!

lifeofglamour March 12 2012, 04:04:38 UTC

Happy to!
I learned it at the first Collegium I ever attended in ~1995 from Hillary of Serendip. I carried that handout around with me for years and years, but somewhere in the 10 or 12 moves since the last time I saw it it disappeared. I'm sad because it was perfect, but I think I'll just have to settle down and make my own drawings so I can teach it myself. :-)

helblonde March 12 2012, 03:52:11 UTC

I've always envied your awesome rolled hems. That looks fabulous!

lifeofglamour March 12 2012, 04:04:48 UTC

Thank you. :)

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lifeofglamour March 12 2012, 04:14:15 UTC

Thank you. :-)

answers_within March 12 2012, 05:17:12 UTC

I have seriously enjoyed listening to this process as you have gone through it, and to me this is absolutely the best kind of "doing it right" - experimenting with increasingly period techniques *just because you want to*. No pressure, no obligation, no fussing about who's watching you and what they will think of what you - just simple curiosity, both historical and technical. I think it's awesome and I am very glad you have posted all the stuff you have ( ... )

lifeofglamour March 12 2012, 05:26:24 UTC

I WOULD LOVE TO GET A COPY OF THAT HANDOUT!!

I'm so excited that you have one! Also, I used to pleat my veils like that for YEARS before I started doing late period because of all the techniques she showed, I thought that one was the prettiest. Wow, I'm so tickled you have a copy of the handout still! Can you scan it?

Thread...I admit I'm just using the regular old Guterman because, uh, it hadn't occurred to me that I could get silk thread. Thank you for the comment, I had totally overlooked that aspect of it! Hmm. Where do you get the silk thread you use?

answers_within March 12 2012, 05:57:33 UTC

:-)

I will totally scan it for you when I get home! It'll be a couple more weeks but I will for sure, it's safely held in my Binder of Handouts Worth Keeping. I took her class at West Kingdom 25th Year when I had been in the SCA for about 6 months and knew no one and nothing, so it stands out as one of my best early memories and I've kept a deathgrip on the handout this whole time.

Thread was seriously one of those things that I was totally blind to until I...wasn't anymore, I guess! It was a fun "aha" moment for me because it came up totally spontaneously, and it's made a big difference in my sewing since then ( ... )