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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2012 8:23:24 GMT -5
Thanks for all the encouraging words, friends. This was my big garb project for the fall, so I'm glad it all worked out. It is amazing how the little things, like the knots, bring out everything else. "Little things"? Each knot is made from 18 inches of cord, and is about six inches tall. I may have gone a bit large on them, actually. If I ever get around to replacing them with hand-braided cord, I may go a bit smaller. (Five inches tall from 15 inches of cord, probably.) For some reason seeing it the way it looks now makes me think of Floyd Pepper. One thing about the hitoe and under-hakama. I wanted this layer to be as light as possible, so I went with the lightest weight linen I could find on "fabrics-store.com". This was a mistake. Their lightest weight linen is lightweight because it has a very open weave, gauzy in texture. You'd be better off going up a bit in weight, but with a higher count of finer threads The resulting fabric would probably be thinner, easier to work with, and smoother.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Oct 19, 2012 11:47:39 GMT -5
The devil is in the details. ;-D
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Post by Sō Haruko on Oct 22, 2012 14:22:36 GMT -5
Wow, that looks wonderful! (:
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Post by AJBryant on Oct 22, 2012 23:27:51 GMT -5
Looks REAL nice -- and a good choice in color for the cordwork.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2013 12:51:40 GMT -5
This is almost finished, so I thought I'd post a picture. Decided to go the painting route on this one, with stripes across the front and back, and my badge on the shoulders and mid-back. There's a bunch wrong here as I've pictured it, but I wanted to get a picture up before I forgot to. What's wrong? Those braids are actually meant for another garment, and they're just pinned in place. I'm wearing kosode underneath, not hitoe. Those kosode are not meant for this kamishimo; I also finished them up recently so they were handy for the photo-session. I have up painting after a while; technically there should be maybe four more badges on the sleeves and three on the hakama. The fabric is a very heavy hemp/linen blend that has the texture of canvas. I should have a fencing marshal punch-test it. Update: A few more pictures of the pieces.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Feb 22, 2013 13:20:19 GMT -5
SENSEI DON'T CARE! I really like this one. OK, I'm a sucker for greens, but it's a good color and the paint detailing came out very well. Having spent much of the past several months building rapier gi and other stuff-for-other-people, I'm itching to make something pretty for me. Soonish, just not sure what yet.
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Post by AJBryant on Feb 22, 2013 17:33:16 GMT -5
Thou suckest.
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Post by Matsuyama Yoshitoshi on Feb 22, 2013 17:46:16 GMT -5
Spiffy!
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Post by Ishida Kentarou Mitsumasa on Feb 26, 2013 2:42:02 GMT -5
That looks awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2013 8:40:49 GMT -5
I replaced all the store-bought braid on the first green hitatare with hand-braided cords. Then, I entered it in the A&S Pentathlon at Ice Dragon this year. I didn't win the "Garb, Post 14th Century" category with my average score (I have miles to go on my documentation), but I cross entered it in the braiding sub-category and won that because I was the only entrant. Anyway, here it is on display: I really need like a mannequin or something. I got one comment on the commentary sheet that complained that outfits really only come alive when worn. True, but not very helpful, since this was an anonymous competition so I couldn't sit there all day wearing it. I'm wearing it to Coronation in a couple of weeks, so I'll try to get new photos. Anyway. close ups of the sleeve braids and kotsuyu braids are available. Those are both 16-strand braids made with silk lace-weight yarn. I went with slightly smaller kotsuyu this time, only 5 inches tall instead of 6".
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Apr 8, 2013 10:20:46 GMT -5
I really need like a mannequin or something. I got one comment on the commentary sheet that complained that outfits really only come alive when worn. True, but not very helpful, since this was an anonymous competition so I couldn't sit there all day wearing it. I'm wearing it to Coronation in a couple of weeks, so I'll try to get new photos. An alternative solution is to supply photographs of you in the garment with your face obscured.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2013 11:20:53 GMT -5
An alternative solution is to supply photographs of you in the garment with your face obscured. I did that as part of my documentation, including both the picture of me wearing the full sugata and just the hitoe underlayer. Maybe the pictures were too small. (Next year, eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one is.) Ice Dragon judges (volunteers all, of course, with limited time, recruited from enthusiasts who don't have any entries in that category) are notorious for simultaneously demanding good documentation and failing to read it through. I actually got one comment on the kumihimo samples saying they wish I had displayed all the braiding not just the samples, despite the fact that the documentation stated this was a cross-entry and the full garb was over in another category. :shrug:
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Apr 8, 2013 13:42:51 GMT -5
The sole qualification anyone needs to judge an SCA A&S competition is the inability to say no to a frantic A&S minister. Furthermore, when you're doing "narrow niche" subjects, which pretty much extends to ANYTHING Japanese, you're going to have to educate most of your judges because they just plain aren't familiar with your stuff. You're damned if you don't write enough and you're damned if they don't have time to read it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2013 15:08:39 GMT -5
The sole qualification anyone needs to judge an SCA A&S competition is the inability to say no to a frantic A&S minister. Hence the high quality of 1/3 of the woodworking judges.
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Post by kazuyama on Apr 8, 2013 19:32:54 GMT -5
Well, they all look great to me, far better than the one I made
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