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Fabric Detail: Galadriel's Prolog Dress
OK, time to be really obsessive.... The fabric on the
prolog dress may have been bought, but it has the feeling of being custom
made... It is a wonderfully beautiful blend of a flower and
geometry. Recognize you do not have to have this exact material to
recreate the dress, but it's fun to know the obsessive detail.
Basic Description:
Summary:
- The geometric pattern of the prolog dress can be stared at for an
hour. (Did that.) It is cream silk with an 8 point petal design of
silver and white heavy thread that is chain stitched to form the
expanding pedals. Heaver white thread fills in the triangular gaps with
a crazy stitch. There are two different styles of
centers for these flowers
The Flower Centers:
- There are two types of centers: a detailed "X" and a simple circle
- The "X"
- 5 mini pearls, one in the center and one at the far point of an
imaginary "X"
- These pearls are outlined in an "X" pattern with iridescent seed
beads. (See design below.)
The Petals:
- The magnificent petals are just formed from simple chain stitching
with a blended thread of white and metallic silver thread. This
reflective thread makes it harder to see the actual designs.
- Like the sketch... there are 8 rows of chain stitching - 4 to the
left and 4 to the right. There is no center stitch. (That
line is just there in the sketches to line up the petals and pears.)
- All horizontal and vertical petals are exactly the same size.
All diagonal petals are the same size.
The Fill pattern:
- The area between the petals is also
loosely decorate.
- Heaver white thread fills in the
triangular gaps with a "free hand" crazy stitch.
Please note, these drawing are just rough sketches taken from my
notebook... but they were languishing unposted for far too long... so here
they are, until I have more time to clean them up.
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- This sketch is
closer to the actual
size of the petals and
the bead center.
- Even the little
beads are very
geometrically aligned.
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of big flowers.
Set of 5 pearls
surrounded by short
bugles |
Small
centers. One pearl
surrounded by seed
beads. |
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-- pattern and notes by Cat, from a number of hours
spent with this dress when it was shown at FIDM in 2001
Exhibit pictures throughout this section thanks to
Steve J., Secrete Elf, Garfeimao, Kelldar, and Silvara
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