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labricoleuse) wrote2008-04-25 09:55 am
labricoleuse) wrote2008-04-25 09:55 am
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Class project: ladies wool high-button spats
Another student project, this time a period reproduction of a pair of late 19th c. ladies wool spats...
left: antique spat from our archive
right: reproduction in pumpkin-colored boiled wool by Jacki Blakeney Armit
(note the slight alteration to elongate the area over the vamp to accomodate high heels)
detail of the interior construction and finishing of both pieces
Jacki models her spats with the shoes for which she made them
front view of same
left: antique spat from our archive
right: reproduction in pumpkin-colored boiled wool by Jacki Blakeney Armit
(note the slight alteration to elongate the area over the vamp to accomodate high heels)
detail of the interior construction and finishing of both pieces
Jacki models her spats with the shoes for which she made them
front view of same
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I've never worked with boiled wool before. Did it come that way, or did she, uh, boil it herself?
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I think she used scraps from our fabric stock--it looked like it was a wool gabardine that had felted, either it came that way or was washed in hot water. (Either way, it was already like that, felty, rather than something that she did to the fabric, though it's easy enough to wash some wool yardage and felt it up a bit.) The feltiness helps keep raw edges from fraying as much as they otherwise might.