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Posted by BEI Design on March 15, 2008, 12:21 pm
Kate XXXXXX wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:59:18 -0700, BEI Design wrote:
> >
> >
> > > The vest will be made of 100% cotton velvet completely
> > > underlined with hair canvas (there is a lot of stress
> > > on them, they are laced tightly, and then the dancer
> > > is
> > > very active while wearing them).
> >
> > Is this a case of different names for the same thing
> > each side of the pond? I have this mental picture of
> > something quite coarse and scratchy being used as a
> > lining. Thoughts perhaps of the hair shirts worn by
> > monks of old.
>
> Not this time! :) Hair canvass is a wool or wool/linen
> blend canvas woven with horsehair to make it springy.
> It's used in
> tailoring in things like men's jackets to support the
> fabric and help
> to give it shape and structure. There are many different
> sorts for
> the different parts of the jacket... Collar canvas is
> stiffer than chest canvas, which stiffer than body
> canvas... And they all also come
> in different weights for use with tropical weight wools,
> coatings, and silk suiting as well as the traditional
> men's suiting weights that we
> see all over the place. Guess who just had a deep
> conversation about
> all this and a whole set of lovely samples sent to them
> by Bernstein & Bailey's, suppliers of linings and
> interlinings, hair canvass,
> pocketing and etc. to the bespoke tailors and couture
> wedding gown makers of
> London? :D Damn - they smell good! And I thought I'd
> given up
> fabric sniffing...
> Interlining means that it will be used to mount the outer
> fabric and give it support. There will be a fashion
> fabric and a
> lining between it and the outer world or inner body.
What Kate said. ;-) The *lining* is a beautiful purple
bridal-weight satin. Each pattern piece of the velvet will
be mounted to a corresponding piece of hair canvas, then the
combined pieces will be assembled to make a vest which both
beautiful and strong.
Beverly
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