Purchaces...
2004-11-24 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggeSo, after computer-time on campus I went downtown to the second hand shop. I found there just what I was looking for, a fake velvet skirt (65 SEK - 10%) to be transformed into the veil of my french hood. I was also looking for a white silk with which to cover my brim, but no luck there, so I just went across the street to the good fabric store. Or, depending on your point of view, the evil fabric store. The one that has all that wool. Lovely lovely wool. Soft drapey wool. . . Ahem, right.
To the fabric store I went (Tygcentrum) and I asked the woman to show me her silks in white. There wasn't any un-slubby white silk, but there was the off-white, cream-y coloured silk. I was not convinced (and the price had me gulping a little) but I noticed she had remnant bins underneath the rack of linens. Rummaging through them I found a cut of polyester that looks close enough to the silk, but in a white rather than cream. At 30 SEK I bought it at once.
I should have stopped there, I know, but, well, they had very nice white linen, just the kind I was looking for for my shirt. If I am making a doublet I will need a shirt. For making a shirt you need linen, white. So I did a little calculating in my head and arrived at two and a half metres with enough extra to last me a long time. I figured two metres was probably more than enough, but, well, it was lovely lovely linen. Soft bright white linen. . . Agem, right.
So I decided I needed 2.5 metres and she started unrolling the bolt. We then noticed quite a few flaws in the fabric, like the first thirty centimetres had some black slubs in it. Unrolling the entire bolt there were intermittend flaws throughout - marked at the edge as is usual on a bolt - and the clerk said she hadn't even noticed that before. Well, I was checking it with her and she started measuring from the front end, starting -after- those 30 centimetres of flawed fabric. Measuring out 2.5 metres she got to JUST before the next flaw started, and I said she could cut there but she wouldn't do that. Instead she extended the cut to beyond the flaw in the fabric meaning I got extra to start with, and extra at the end surrounding my two and a half metres of pristine white.
I'm no fool so I did not complain! So I got approximately 3.3 metres of fine white linen for 322 SEK which should have cost me 129 SEK per metre.
I'm happy. I have the material I need now.
Also I got what I thought was a lovely cut of wool made up into a skirt at the second hand shop: looking at it more closely at home I discovered it's not a skirt, it's culottes: you know, the long shorts that look like a skirt but is, in fact, two legs. I wore them to tea with friends this evening who protested my plans of slaughtering them for the fabric. I'm not a big fan of culottes though, so I think I will just ignore the protestations.
To the fabric store I went (Tygcentrum) and I asked the woman to show me her silks in white. There wasn't any un-slubby white silk, but there was the off-white, cream-y coloured silk. I was not convinced (and the price had me gulping a little) but I noticed she had remnant bins underneath the rack of linens. Rummaging through them I found a cut of polyester that looks close enough to the silk, but in a white rather than cream. At 30 SEK I bought it at once.
I should have stopped there, I know, but, well, they had very nice white linen, just the kind I was looking for for my shirt. If I am making a doublet I will need a shirt. For making a shirt you need linen, white. So I did a little calculating in my head and arrived at two and a half metres with enough extra to last me a long time. I figured two metres was probably more than enough, but, well, it was lovely lovely linen. Soft bright white linen. . . Agem, right.
So I decided I needed 2.5 metres and she started unrolling the bolt. We then noticed quite a few flaws in the fabric, like the first thirty centimetres had some black slubs in it. Unrolling the entire bolt there were intermittend flaws throughout - marked at the edge as is usual on a bolt - and the clerk said she hadn't even noticed that before. Well, I was checking it with her and she started measuring from the front end, starting -after- those 30 centimetres of flawed fabric. Measuring out 2.5 metres she got to JUST before the next flaw started, and I said she could cut there but she wouldn't do that. Instead she extended the cut to beyond the flaw in the fabric meaning I got extra to start with, and extra at the end surrounding my two and a half metres of pristine white.
I'm no fool so I did not complain! So I got approximately 3.3 metres of fine white linen for 322 SEK which should have cost me 129 SEK per metre.
I'm happy. I have the material I need now.
Also I got what I thought was a lovely cut of wool made up into a skirt at the second hand shop: looking at it more closely at home I discovered it's not a skirt, it's culottes: you know, the long shorts that look like a skirt but is, in fact, two legs. I wore them to tea with friends this evening who protested my plans of slaughtering them for the fabric. I'm not a big fan of culottes though, so I think I will just ignore the protestations.
