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Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Tue 19 Sep, 2017 4:51 pm
by louisesimon
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This is an Indian wedding dress, which the client wanted to be able to remove and possibly down the line wear (we all know she never will)

It had an Mdf former cut to fit snug inside then was stuffed and lined in linen. The visible section in the waist line was then attached to the backboard by screwing in from behind. The dress is held in place with carefully placed stitches. I lined the board myself as it's 1.5 by 1.3metres, also wrapped the 10cm deep spacers. Framed in solid oak frame with hand gilded slip. UV glass

Please don't ask what I charged, having completed the job it's a bit of a :Slap: the price. I'll just say the oak alone was £400

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Tue 19 Sep, 2017 5:24 pm
by Jamesnkr
Cool! That's quite large. Did you have the oak made for you?

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Tue 19 Sep, 2017 5:35 pm
by misterdiy
Very nice job :clap:

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Tue 19 Sep, 2017 7:33 pm
by prospero
Great job all round. :D


Sooner you than me though. :roll: :lol:

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Tue 19 Sep, 2017 8:34 pm
by Not your average framer
Looks great! I'll bet it was not easy.

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Wed 20 Sep, 2017 6:46 pm
by Steve N
That is one of the best examples of clothing framing I have seen on this forum, the dress looks so natural, not squeezed into the frame, well done :clap: :clap: :star: :star:

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Thu 21 Sep, 2017 8:44 am
by louisesimon
Thank you all. Yes James had it milled at the local timber yard, then a carpenter friend across the yard ran it through it his table saw to mitre it.

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Fri 10 Nov, 2017 6:39 am
by Nicole
Beautiful a lovely job to be proud of. Hope they had a strong wall. Do you know how they fixed it up?

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Fri 10 Nov, 2017 11:10 am
by louisesimon
Thank you. It had a ply wood sub frame on the rear which also acted as a split batten.

Re: Indian Wedding Skirt

Posted: Fri 10 Nov, 2017 4:50 pm
by Uncle Sumo
Superb. Work of art.