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Post by Please Delete on Feb 3, 2017 18:35:41 GMT -5
In Aethelmearc, we use those colors for a lot of our awards. Do they mean something that I'm not aware of? Nope. It just caught my eye because I hadn't seen that kind of contrast in a kariginu, so I wasn't sure if there was a particular reason for it. That's as good as any. -Ii
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Post by solveig on Feb 15, 2017 13:16:39 GMT -5
Looks like you have gone over to patches to accommodate the cords. You appear to have used button hole for the cords on your first suikan. Can you comment on your approach to attaching the cords? Was your changed influenced by a visit to the Costume Museum? Incidentally, the green light brocade looks awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 15:29:51 GMT -5
Looks like you have gone over to patches to accommodate the cords. You appear to have used button hole for the cords on your first suikan. Can you comment on your approach to attaching the cords? Was your changed influenced by a visit to the Costume Museum? Incidentally, the green light brocade looks awesome. Thanks for the kind words! I'm pretty happy with how this came out, and starting with some nice-looking fabric always helps. I've used button holes on all of my suikan, and most of my hitatare, and prevented them from fraying by using actual button holes stitches from the sewing machine. I wanted to avoid using such obvious machine stitching on this garment, but I also wanted to avoid the fraying I fear would occur if I went to the simple slits that were apparently common. The kariginu I treid on in the Kyoto city library had simple slits, and obvious fraying. Then again, the fraying is not that extreme, really. There's just as much fraying from wear, at the end of the sleeve. Perhaps I am wrong the fear fraying.
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Post by Bun'ami on Feb 20, 2017 15:38:04 GMT -5
There is an example of the 'button-hole' stitched (Kittsuke-nui) used from the Shosoin. I'm sure it can be used as a real "button-hole" stitch. To clarify, it's the stitch running on the outside of the purple leather holding it onto the sash.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 7:24:13 GMT -5
There is an example of the 'button-hole' stitched (Kittsuke-nui) used from the Shosoin. I'm sure it can be used as a real "button-hole" stitch. I agree, that would bind the raw edges of buttonholes nicely. In English I might call that a "blanket stitch".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 9:43:40 GMT -5
finishing something less than month before it's needed is pushing it. I just wanted to quote myself here, for my own benefit. Sorry for the interruption.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 8:34:29 GMT -5
Here's a picture of me wearing the kariginu at the "Festival of the Passing of the Ice Dragon" event this past weekend. I've already been wearing it for about six hours at this point, so I'm a little disheveled, but it was the the only opportunity I had to get a picture in this gorgeous sunlight. Beneath the kariginu, I'm wearing my silk hand-sewn hitoe, brown ramie kosode, and white linen hand-sewn juban kosode. Below the kariginu, I'm wearing my only pair of sashinuki, silk hand-sewn hakama no hitoe, linen kyahan, linen hand-sewn tabi, and purchased setta zori. Above the kariginu I am wearing a lightweight linen eboshi. I had meant to wear my formal tate eboshi from my Japan trip, but forgot to pack it .
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Post by Kagami Tomoko on Apr 10, 2017 20:05:19 GMT -5
I love the hakama no hitoe fabric! I feel like it's sometimes hard finding the right pattern in the right hue but the overall look you have is quite nice. great work!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 21:49:29 GMT -5
I love the hakama no hitoe fabric! I feel like it's sometimes hard finding the right pattern in the right hue but the overall look you have is quite nice. great work! Hm. You can't actually see the hakama no hitoe in that picture. They are an underlayer. Maybe you mean the sashinuki? Sashinuki: Hakama no Hitoe: The sashinuki are a cotton print from Jo Ann fabrics that was popular five or six years ago due to its seigaiha-type pattern and affordable price. You can see the pattern a little better in the close-up of the kikutoji. I'm not very happy with them now, I made them kind of in a hurry from what was available.
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Post by Kagami Tomoko on Apr 10, 2017 22:41:00 GMT -5
Maybe you mean the sashinuki? Yes, I meant the sashinuki. My apologies. I did not mean to imply I could see your underwear. hah! Even if you are no longer a fan, I find that the pattern creates a great effect that I would not have picked up on the nuances if it were not for your up close shot.
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Post by Kagami Tomoko on Jul 2, 2017 17:37:15 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2017 6:06:09 GMT -5
For the past few months, I have been working with Sophie (http://www.sewsmooth.net/) on creating /my/ first suikan. That looks spectacular!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2018 20:09:34 GMT -5
Recently finished up some new sashinuki to go with that green kariginu. The bulk of them is a great orange silk brocade I got at Pennsic this past summer.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 21:34:46 GMT -5
I entered the orange sashinuki and green kariginu as a Kariginu Sugata into an A&S competition this weekend, and was selected by the local Baron and Baroness as their favorite! I think I won my category, too, but I was the only entry into post-1400 clothing this year. Pretty good scores, averaging in at about 7.2 out of 10.
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