OK, so there are a few words, but just a few. Here are some pictures of the construction process…A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Feel free to post a comment if anything doesn’t make sense. I had to be selective and chose a representative sampling, so I probably left stuff out inadvertently.
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wow! this is just beautiful work
I do a lot of costume design and layout myself, but unfortunately I’m not so talented behind a sewing machine! XP
I recently (maybe about a year or so back) constructed a very large cartwheel farthingale to emulate the Spanish court dress of the 1660s, but you couldn’t really call it a “legit” piece; since I cannot sew, I made it from everyday items, but it held up beautifully!
I used a basic hula hoop from a local Walmart and bought a cheap belt. I poked 12-holes into the belt where I wanted fasteners to go, and I just tied moderately durable pieces of thin rope to the hoop and fastened them with rivets into the holes I made in the belt. Surprisingly, it held up for the Renn Faire and even later for several conventions I attended that summer
LOL!!!
Great idea with the hula-hoop! You basically made the “spokes” out of rope and used the stiffness of the hula to get a nice rigid outer hoop that could keep it’s shape under your gown. What an ingenious solution. I LOVE it!!!
Thanks for sharing, Steffauri!