[Sca-cooks] Bronzino sleeves

[Heleen Greenwald]

I guess it's not gonna help for me to say, "Just do a narrow pinch pleat."
I'll ask my mom. She did lots of sewing in the 50 & 60
Phillipa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huette von Ahrens" <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Bronzino sleeves


>
> --- margaret <m.p.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > Has anyone figured out how to smock the sleeves
> > found in some of the
> > Bronzino portraits?
>
>
> Yes.  They are very similar to smocked pillows
> popular in the 1950's.  I have several McCalls
> and Simplicity patterns and directions for these
> pillows that I have used to approximate these
> sleeves.  You probably can find these patterns
> in a thrift store or on e-bay:
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11802&item=8104798973&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
>
> Huette
>
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