What type of material do i use 4 a northern cloth dress?

*FineFancy* · 10-22-2006, 03:31 AM

I'm currently a fancy shawl dancer but i want to change to northern cloth.I'm not quite sure what kind of material to use....Can someone please help?

**WocusWoman** · 10-22-2006, 03:38 AM

I've had dresses made from satin, corderoy, velvet, velveteen, wool, and cotton. I like my cotton dresses the best, because they are "cool" to wear.

neegee · 11-10-2006, 07:14 PM

My gookum always wore small print flowers on her dress shirts.
In the North the ladies used to wear their own homemade clothing. It was bright colors, small prints with rick-rack. I can just see my gookum in her moccasins drinking tea watching "Edge of night." She didn't even know what they were saying...sweet memories.

SuzzeQ4 · 11-10-2006, 08:11 PM

I like to use cotton also, a nice cotton, I only ever use broadcloth for lining. I also use velveteen, but not the whole outfit, just parts where I'm putting floral beadwork (especially for my Ojibway friends.)

Anywhere that I'm beading I back with interface.

I also usually line the bodice (ribbon dress style but not sleves) or the yoke (which ever style your doing) broadcloth like I said & I either line the skirt or make an underskirt, like a slip but longer with lots of ribbon & rickrack etc.

Good luck with your dress. I'm sure you'll enjoy all the choices of cottons, I do, I just love going into the fabric store & wondering what I'll use this time. I have used the floral prints they are very nice but I also use the other prints. I used lots with matalic stars last year. Some lovely tiedyes & batics. & one of my favorites had a birchbark tree pattern on a soft blue, very pretty.

Suzze

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10-22-2006, 03:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
WocusWoman N8tiffUmatillaMAMA Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Interior Alaska Posts: 2,727	I've had dresses made from satin, corderoy, velvet, velveteen, wool, and cotton. I like my cotton dresses the best, because they are "cool" to wear.

11-10-2006, 07:14 PM	#3 (permalink)
neegee Pow Wow Visitor Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7	My gookum always wore small print flowers on her dress shirts. In the North the ladies used to wear their own homemade clothing. It was bright colors, small prints with rick-rack. I can just see my gookum in her moccasins drinking tea watching "Edge of night." She didn't even know what they were saying...sweet memories.

11-10-2006, 08:11 PM	#4 (permalink)
SuzzeQ4 Senior Dancer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: next door to Timmies...Jealous? Posts: 520	I like to use cotton also, a nice cotton, I only ever use broadcloth for lining. I also use velveteen, but not the whole outfit, just parts where I'm putting floral beadwork (especially for my Ojibway friends.) Anywhere that I'm beading I back with interface. I also usually line the bodice (ribbon dress style but not sleves) or the yoke (which ever style your doing) broadcloth like I said & I either line the skirt or make an underskirt, like a slip but longer with lots of ribbon & rickrack etc. Good luck with your dress. I'm sure you'll enjoy all the choices of cottons, I do, I just love going into the fabric store & wondering what I'll use this time. I have used the floral prints they are very nice but I also use the other prints. I used lots with matalic stars last year. Some lovely tiedyes & batics. & one of my favorites had a birchbark tree pattern on a soft blue, very pretty. Suzze

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