Taffeta, Darling
Jul. 15th, 2012 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotOkay, I have returned to the isle of sanity.
You see, at the risk of sounding like the unsophisticate I am, I don't believe I've come into contact with taffeta in a non-historic, museum context, really. So at first feel I can't quite tell the difference between silk (dupioni, but a very good dupioni) taffeta and poly/acetate taffeta, because science has come a long way there. Then my second impression, while I'm working with it, is that it's so horrible and slippery to work with and I hate it so it must be man-made. But then I made a breakthrough while working on the skirt - it started to feel more like silk to me, I don't know, and I realized that the machine is part of the problem in dealing with it. I've started to really want to make something historical out of it by hand, because I'm getting the hang of it and liking its luster and feel. And the sound, of course, who doesn't love the sound?
Anyway, I'm feeling better and this dress is really coming along. I need to pleat the skirt, attach it to the bodice, put in the zipper, hem it, and bind the armscyes. When I type it all out it looks like a lot, but when I imagine it I'm doing quite well.
You see, at the risk of sounding like the unsophisticate I am, I don't believe I've come into contact with taffeta in a non-historic, museum context, really. So at first feel I can't quite tell the difference between silk (dupioni, but a very good dupioni) taffeta and poly/acetate taffeta, because science has come a long way there. Then my second impression, while I'm working with it, is that it's so horrible and slippery to work with and I hate it so it must be man-made. But then I made a breakthrough while working on the skirt - it started to feel more like silk to me, I don't know, and I realized that the machine is part of the problem in dealing with it. I've started to really want to make something historical out of it by hand, because I'm getting the hang of it and liking its luster and feel. And the sound, of course, who doesn't love the sound?
Anyway, I'm feeling better and this dress is really coming along. I need to pleat the skirt, attach it to the bodice, put in the zipper, hem it, and bind the armscyes. When I type it all out it looks like a lot, but when I imagine it I'm doing quite well.
