Drapery Pleater Tape : Shades Furniture : Paint For Shutters.
Drapery Pleater Tape
A ready-made strip sewn to the top of curtain window treatments and attached to the hanging system.
The artistic arrangement of clothing in sculpture or painting
Long curtains of heavy fabric
Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles (Old French drap, from Late Latin drappus ). It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes - such as around windows - or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for clothing, formerly conducted by drapers.
curtain: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
Cloth coverings hanging in loose folds
CORSET 2: Inside View
This is the 2nd corset I created with a different style of pleater tape, with CF closure:
*Strips of 4" pleater tape were sewn together vertically to create 1 long piece, 8" high and approx. 45" long.
*I began sewing small 1/4" "fisheye" darts along the piece, placing them in the same area as princess seams.
*After fitting the piece on my own waist, I added more darts at the sides & back to accomodate the curves.
*Ridgline boning is then added in between darts, with S/N zig-zag stitch through center of boning.
NOTE: It's very important to finish the ends of boning so the little nylon threads don't poke through. I round off each end with sissors and melt the edge with a lighter.
*1" twill tape is sewn through center of piece for waist reinforcement. This is crucial!
*Top and bottom edges are finished off with 1" single fold bias tape.
CORSET 1: Inside View
This is the 1st corset I created with the pleater tape media, with CB closure.
*2 pieces 4" wide pleater tape were sewn together horizontally. Edges are overlapped 1/4" and sewn with S/N zig-zag.
*"Fisheye" darts were sewn in to fit my waist/torso area.
*Ridgeline boning was sewn in between darts with staight stitch. This stitch method I later updated to zig-zag for improved quality.
*The entire outside was painted in an Egyptian motif for a "Zombie Cleopatra" costume.