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Pile Fabric Primer title page – you can see the swatches are attached to larger pages interleaved with the small text pages<\/p><\/div>\n
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Possibly the coolest spread in the book – swatches of corduroy, velveteen, and velvet from each stage of manufacturing, to illustrate the different processes<\/p><\/div>\n
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The book is illustrated with rad engravings<\/p><\/div>\n
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And also weird atmospheric photographs<\/p><\/div>\n
The copyright date is 1970, and it\u2019s in great shape – the pile is a little crushed on some of the swatches, as one might expect from a book that\u2019s been crammed onto a shelf for god knows how long, but only one was missing.<\/p>\n
$\"missing$ <\/a><\/span>I went ahead and dug around in my parents\u2019 basement for an appropriately aged\u00a0swatch of corduroy to replace it. I can\u2019t vouch for the exact vintage of the scrap I dug up, and the color doesn\u2019t quite match the Harvest Gold extravaganza in the rest of the book, but I think it\u2019s in the right ballpark.<\/p>\n
$\"pile$ <\/a>Most of the book is about the history and manufacturing of these fabrics, but it\u2019s got a pretty solid chapter on sewing and garment care at the end.<\/p>\n
$\"pile$ <\/a> $\"pile$ <\/a>A pretty amazing find, all in all. Thanks, Mom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve done a couple projects with rayon velvet in the past several months – first the Ezio tailcoat lining, and later a kimono jacket that I made for a Christmas present – and sometimes I could swear that fabric is possessed. It\u00a0likes to creep when you try to mash two layers together at the seams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sewing with velvet, plus a vintage book review: http:\/\/wp.me\/p5soL3-5W","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48,46],"tags":[42,11,49,10,33],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5soL3-velvet","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alltomorrowspatterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}