As the year’s most intensive creative period has come to end, it is time to replenish the reserves, backing up on the commonly used supplies, such as needles, elastic and closures, but also lining of which my creations require constantly having antistatic, stretchable, insulating and satin-finished variants of black in stock.
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Buying Fabrics (furs)
For being able to make best use of the last weeks before the festival, I made sure I gathered the required fabrics for making the remainig items on the Saturday outfits, comprising of: a long haired wine-colored faux fur (primary outfit, ground shoulder layer), a deep-red high-stretch velvety jersey (secondary outfit, blouse) and a luxuriously shining deep-black hairy velour (jacket), probably most resembling panther-hide.
Cutting Fabric
When a dividing line needs to be straight and ripping the material is not a valid option, cutting a little snip right into the fabric-fold might allow the picking up of a single thread and pulling it all the way out, carefully gathering and easing the woven textile as you go, to end up leaving a clear mark to cut on.
Buying Fabrics (velvets)
Rejoicing the fortunate arrival of the long besought thick-thread velvets, heavy and glossy, unrolled and photographed along with the facing and interfacings, employed for constructing 2011′s “Mystery Project“.
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