not a good mail day

[jennylafleur]

Well nuts! The silk taffeta from fabrics.com is not what I wanted. It's more of a dupioni than a taffeta, without the sheen, the body and with too many slubs. So I'm sending it back. Hopefully that will be a painless process.

Moo I say - MOO! Now I'm super jealous of all the garment district shopping. Life is so unfair.

Comments

[bauhausfrau.livejournal.com]

Shantung usually has a hand like taffeta but has minor slubs, not the big ones you see in Dupioni. And according to Sally Queen it IS a period fabric! "Pongee" is what they called shantung in the Victorian era. If I remember rightly from Sally's book it was used for dresses after 1830. So I'm actually going to use it for my Poe Mourning dress and maybe as contrast trim, petticoats or ruffles on Victorian stuff.

[bauhausfrau.livejournal.com]

I meant to add that I figured the slubs won't be very obvious on ruffles.

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

Good to know - thanks! Now that I think about it the checked silk Brunswick I saw in the milliner’s shop in Williamsburg must have been a shuntang. With the busy pattern the slubs kinda disappeared but I was a little surprised to see slubs at all there.

I was going to use it for a new Poe Dress too (and an 18th century jacket), so it's probably just as well that I don't want to use it now! Matching fabric - horrors! *giggle* For the Poe I think I'm going to go back to my original idea of cotton. For the jacket... I really want that crispy, shiny, smooth look of true silk taffeta. What a snob I am becoming in my old age! :>