Cail Cordon
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Post by Cail Cordon on Jul 20, 2005 21:16:09 GMT -5
I was wondering what is the best fabric to use in your Jedi costume? Also the fabric that is in a good price range? Thanks for helpin me out.
Cail
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Ral Miran
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Post by Ral Miran on Jul 20, 2005 21:35:39 GMT -5
Hello. I can't give you any specific names, but what I suggest is to go to a local fabric store and just start feeling the fabrics. Choose whatever feels right to you. I have not purchased any fabric yet, but I plan to soon, and that's the way I will choose my fabric. I know I feel a bit nervous feeling the fabrics in a store where I've rarely seen another guy. But what's weirder is since I go in there often now, the employees know who I am!
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Post by Xana on Jul 20, 2005 21:48:06 GMT -5
Hehehe.................. Rabics................... I like Muslin for inner tunics. Muslin comes in different shades of tan and isn't too expensive, about $2 a yard or so. Many use cotton gauze for tunics also, and that CAN be expensive. The cotton gauze I used for my second cost $7 a yard and I needed a ton to get that fluffy, girly look. But it looks good! For Robes, I like plain old cotton. The material I used was about $5 a yard. And you don't want to know how much the ultra suede was for the tabards. And that's what I used for my costumes. I'm sure other people have more ideas and opinions.
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Post by Xana on Jul 20, 2005 21:51:06 GMT -5
Hello. I can't give you any specific names, but what I suggest is to go to a local fabric store and just start feeling the fabrics. Choose whatever feels right to you. I have not purchased any fabric yet, but I plan to soon, and that's the way I will choose my fabric. I know I feel a bit nervous feeling the fabrics in a store where I've rarely seen another guy. But what's weirder is since I go in there often now, the employees know who I am! That's a good plan too. We all do that. What feels right and comfy and how much it costs.
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Cail Cordon
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Post by Cail Cordon on Jul 20, 2005 21:51:18 GMT -5
thanks for all your suggestions ill look in to every you suggested *bows*
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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Jul 20, 2005 22:36:35 GMT -5
I use cotton and cotton blends for my tunics, obi and tabbards. Cotton blends means fabrics I've had for so long that I'm not quite sure what the fiber content is, but it feels like cotton. I have cotton twill and wool/polyester blend robes. Most of it was bought on sale, $5 or less a yard. I have used black, raw slik (also bought on sale) pants and tunic modified from an old ninja outfit, but I'm inclined to retire it for Jedi-wear since it only works as a New-Republilc-EU Jedi costume. People also use linen or cotton-linene blends for tunics, obi and tabbards as well.
Go by feel for fabrics. If it's at all slick, shiny or too smooth, don't use it. Jedi clothes are generally roughly woven and look and feel like nature fibers. Go window shopping at a fabric store, check out the material and read the labels.
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Post by Jedi Magus on Jul 20, 2005 22:49:29 GMT -5
Is the Raw Silk or Silk Noil hot to wear? A better way to ask might be, does it breath? (someone told me it might be to hot to wear.)
I was thinking of useing it for the under tunic, since it would be against my skin.
It looks just like the homespun they used.
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Jul 20, 2005 23:54:40 GMT -5
Read the Costuming forums. You'll find what you want to know I'm sure.... and more!
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Post by Xana on Jul 21, 2005 11:17:26 GMT -5
True........... moving to the Tunics forum. There are lots of fabric threads there. There are more in every forum for respective costume parts.
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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Jul 21, 2005 18:49:23 GMT -5
Is the Raw Silk or Silk Noil hot to wear? A better way to ask might be, does it breath? (someone told me it might be to hot to wear.) It feels wonderful next to the skin. It breaths as well as any natural fiber. But it's expensive. That's usually the impediment. Since only the collar and ends of the sleeves are visible for the undertunic, and cotton breaths just as well, most people choose the more frugal option.
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Post by Jaren Valnor on Jul 21, 2005 20:06:01 GMT -5
Cail, give me a call sometime or something and I'll hook you up with some fabric samples from my own Jedi costume if you want them. I used a polyester-silklike material for my undertunic (never again! looks good...thats about it...I think I sweated off about a gallon at C3!), something called Weavers Plains from Ben Franklin, and a wool felt from JoAnn's (maybe not JoAnn's, but somewhere in Reading, PA, and I think you go there a lot, Cail.)
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Post by JediKai on Jul 21, 2005 20:36:25 GMT -5
I see you're in PA....it can get very hot and humid there (thinking of Pennsic in August with 98 degrees and 98% humidity!)...... I always recommend only natural fabrics if you want to stay comfortable. Any synthetic content will make you feel warmer. So, 100% cotton, linen, silk, wool. And you can wash all these....just use a cool dryer. Wool will sometimes "felt" a little, but IMHO, that's a good thing in a robe as it will keep you warmer and dryer. Just be sure to wash before you cut if you're going to wash the costume and buy a little more in case of shrinkage. I have stopped drying my 100% cotton costumes (TJA and SCA) in the dryer as I've learned that cotton will continue to shrink! Indeed, silk noir/raw silk is cool. And it doesn't have to be expensive. At Thai Silks it is as little as $3.80/yd if you get the natural (which IS a perfect shade for the standard Jedi garb) www.thaisilks.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TS&Product_Code=0020 I've used this in my garb. I also like gauze for the undertunic as it is 100% cotton and very lightweight. If you watch for sales, it can be gotten cheaper. Sign up for JoAnn's mailer and you'll have a 40% off coupon every 10 days. My favorite fabric is linen. It wears like iron. You will rarely find a good shade of 100% linen at JoAnn's. Linen/rayon is not a bad option as rayon is made of cellulose so still "kinda" natural. I've seen linen/rayon in a natural color at JoAnn and it is a nice fabric. You'll need the sale coupon as it runs about $7/yd. Fabric.com www.fabric.com/ often has linen but you have to watch for the right weight and color. Go with medium weight, usually. Right now they have a couple nice dark browns... www.fabric.com/100--linen-fabric-2.aspx for about $7/yd.
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Post by Nova Darklighter on Jul 22, 2005 23:57:00 GMT -5
Another favourite in a great look & feel as well as colour, OSNABURG, 100% nat. undyed, unbleached cotton. Sturdy & at WalMart's about $2.07 a yd. Love it!
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Post by Tai-Shon Quinn on Jul 24, 2005 10:21:46 GMT -5
Hello. I can't give you any specific names, but what I suggest is to go to a local fabric store and just start feeling the fabrics. Choose whatever feels right to you. I have not purchased any fabric yet, but I plan to soon, and that's the way I will choose my fabric. I know I feel a bit nervous feeling the fabrics in a store where I've rarely seen another guy. But what's weirder is since I go in there often now, the employees know who I am! Fear leads to the dark-side (ha, ha). Be brave! I walked into a Joann Fabrics store yesterday not caring who saw me. It was a good thing too because they were having a 20%-40% moving sale. I have decided to go with linen for the inner and outer tunics, tabbards, pants, and obi, also wool for the robe. Those who decide to go with linen, per my mother who has been sewing all her life, try to find linen that is $3-$4 per yard. May the force be with you!
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JediKai
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Post by JediKai on Jul 24, 2005 11:11:30 GMT -5
Beware of what JoAnn's (and other fabric stores) call "linen". It is sometimes labelled as "linen look" and is largely polyester. Always read the actual fabric content on the label found on the bolt end. 100% Linen in such stores will often cost $10-14/yd. Sale coupons will help. Walmart sells "linen" (actually, linen-look poly) for $3-5yd. Don't buy it for Jedi costumes unless you live in a cold climate as you'll roast. The cheapest place I've found for real linen is at fabric.com, in my post above, and it's about $5/yd, usually. If your mom can get 100% linen for $3/yd on a REGULAR basis, I'd really like to know where as I've never found such a place (outside the garment district of LA) . The only luck I've had at less than $5yd has been happening on a fanstastic sale, or some such, where I can't get the colors I want. Please don't take that as a confrontational statement, which is not my intent. I would truely like to be able to get linen, regularly, at $3 yd. I would appreciate it if your mom would share the wealth, as it were! Or if anyone else knows where to find it that cheaply. (BTW, I've been sewing for 40 years, 25 of it as a costumer, though of simple garb, hence my use of A LOT of linen and the constant search for a cheaper source).
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