03-30-2015, 04:00 PM
Hi Brian
Where you mention that the button cannot be moved without it being sewn on the outside this is not correct for the triangular of circular bracket of the button could go through a very small vertical slot cut in the material then the button could be moved some 5 mm away from the edge and then the bracket piece sewn on the inside
Well, thats rather an assumption that there were slots cut in the garment, whereas I was under the assumption there were no cuts. Equally we are both under the assumption that this particular sculpture shows an authentic method!
Assuming it is, then my reconstruction does not replicate exactly what is shown. However in that case I prefer your earlier suggestion that the leather could be moved and have a smaller loop rather than resort to cuts.
Graham.
Where you mention that the button cannot be moved without it being sewn on the outside this is not correct for the triangular of circular bracket of the button could go through a very small vertical slot cut in the material then the button could be moved some 5 mm away from the edge and then the bracket piece sewn on the inside
Well, thats rather an assumption that there were slots cut in the garment, whereas I was under the assumption there were no cuts. Equally we are both under the assumption that this particular sculpture shows an authentic method!
Assuming it is, then my reconstruction does not replicate exactly what is shown. However in that case I prefer your earlier suggestion that the leather could be moved and have a smaller loop rather than resort to cuts.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
