Kariginu continued
Dec. 28th, 2007 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyKOn the kariginu front, all the long straight bits are hemmed and the seams are all felled and finished. (Yes, by hand. Of COURSE by hand.)
Sleeves just need to be attached, slit and laced. Sleeve attachment on these is really interesting. The sleeve seam starts and ends in the back of the garment - the sleeve is unattached so as to flash the contrasting fabric of the robe beneath it.
(Why yes, that is a Shinto cleric on the right, blessing a new car. You have a problem with that? Fujimaki used to anoint our Pennsic-bound vehicles with sake so we'd get there safely....)
I am debating whether to do a gradated dye effect on the lacing.
Collar needs to be constructed.
Frog knot and loop need to be constructed and attached. I can either (A) use some gold cord I already have or (B) go completely bonkers and make cord out of the body fabric, which seems to be an authentic approach to construction.
Eboshi needs to be constructed. (I have black linen and a big can of Niagara.)
I'm going to take one of my gold itsutsugini layers and wear that as a hitoe over my white kosode.
I can either
(A) blind everyone like a god in a Noh play by wearing my orange hakama or
(B) sew like a lunatic and make a pair of sashinuki out of some light blue cotton-linen I have in the house and (C) go completely bonkers and do a gradated dye effect on the bottom of said sashinuki with indigo dye.
And somewhere in the middle of all this, I have to take up the hem on my blue velvet formal for Monday.
And do a non-gradated dye job on my hair!
Sleeves just need to be attached, slit and laced. Sleeve attachment on these is really interesting. The sleeve seam starts and ends in the back of the garment - the sleeve is unattached so as to flash the contrasting fabric of the robe beneath it.
(Why yes, that is a Shinto cleric on the right, blessing a new car. You have a problem with that? Fujimaki used to anoint our Pennsic-bound vehicles with sake so we'd get there safely....)
I am debating whether to do a gradated dye effect on the lacing.
Collar needs to be constructed.
Frog knot and loop need to be constructed and attached. I can either (A) use some gold cord I already have or (B) go completely bonkers and make cord out of the body fabric, which seems to be an authentic approach to construction.
Eboshi needs to be constructed. (I have black linen and a big can of Niagara.)
I'm going to take one of my gold itsutsugini layers and wear that as a hitoe over my white kosode.
I can either
(A) blind everyone like a god in a Noh play by wearing my orange hakama or
(B) sew like a lunatic and make a pair of sashinuki out of some light blue cotton-linen I have in the house and (C) go completely bonkers and do a gradated dye effect on the bottom of said sashinuki with indigo dye.
And somewhere in the middle of all this, I have to take up the hem on my blue velvet formal for Monday.
And do a non-gradated dye job on my hair!
