Re: The Tailor's 'S'

This sounds like an inverted pleat to me... They do this for couch skirtings
and stuff at the corners. Like the red skirted chair about 1\2 way down:
http://www.taunton.com/threads/pages/t00131.asp

If you did an inverted pleat on the top and bottom, you would get the
fullness to still balloon at a corner...

Am I making sense?

Thanks :)


"Bloddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> > >From: "Bloddy" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > >....... There is a pattern (or geometrical shape/relationship) that
> Tailors
> > use to
> > >mark out a piece of material for cutting/stitching around corners that
> > >retain the loci. ......
> >
> >    I am trying to picture this in my  mind and am having a bit of
> difficulty.
>
> <grin> me also
>
> > Obviously, you aren't making a 90 degree turn around a corner like you
> would if
> > you were going around the edge of the front of a table to the side of a
> table
> > -- vertically .  Are you making the right angle turn within the same
> plane?  As
> > in going along one edge of the TOP of a table and then making the turn
to
> go
> > along the adjacent edge of the TOP of the table --  horizontally?  If
> *that* is
> > the case -- 90 degree turn in the same plane, then you need to make a
> mitered
> > corner somehow.  There are many different ways to do this but anyone who
> sews
> > much would know what it is you need.
> >    would there be any diagrams online that you could lead us to?  Might
> make it
> > easier to understand just what info it is you need.  CiaoMeow >^;;^<
> <snip>
>
> Lets see if I can explain  this in more detail. Using your example, the
top
> and bottom edges of the material have to follow the shape of the table in
> the horizontal plane. Thus in the vertical plane all distances top and
> bottom are the same in the perpendicular. However, and maybe the thing
I've
> not explained properly, when air is pumped into the skirt it flares or
> swells to form a curve. The skirt swells up and looks like ...(I...
>
> The bracket represents the skirt filled with air and the 'I' the side of
the
> craft. A mitre doesn't work because it removes material. I need to add
> material. The skirt has to retain the (I shape around the right angled
turn.
> I hope this helps. I'll try to post a link in the next couple of days that
> show the detail of what I need to do. TIA
>
> Mmm... a cat lover. Thumbs up and tail high.
>
>