In this journal article we introduce to you three bold full skirts with an elaborate cut. They were all created out of one single piece of summery light silk and therefore do not need any side seams.
The circle shaped cut has a great, even fall and rises almost horizontally when twirling or even better when dancing.
The typical swinging up of the full skirts is beautifully displayed in the picture.
The
design arose out of the idea, to spread a row out of bright
colorful flowers over the seamless skirt. For this, circles were sketched onto
the stretched silk and abstract flowers were boldly applied, using
transparent Gutta. The single flowers were filled out with colorful paints, the background was colored in plain black.
After fixing, a large "donut" is cut out of the square piece. The inner circle depends on the measurement needed. The waistband consists out of a double-layered tube piece out of black single jersey, an overlock machine works best.
If the stretchable jersey waist is more narrow than the actually waist measurement, the skirt can be worn at either the hip or the waistline.
Tipp: Circles in desired sizes can easily be drawn by using a pen and a thread: Tie a piece of thread according in length to a pen and draw a circle, while holding the other end of the thread in place in the middle of the circle. If you hold the pen upright, you end up with a very exact circle and an even radius.
A real summer outfit: a short full skirt out of
Crêpe Satin 12,5 in combination with a hand-knitted top out of cut
silk ribbons. Both parts were painted in shades of orange/brown, or rather sprayed with the
Funpump.
A belt with a rose out of
golden Crêpe Satin decorates the waistline.
Here you can see the orange-brown full skirt in detail.
For this model a square piece of Crêpe Satin was also stretched and circular designed with the wax technique. After fixing and removing the wax (dry cleaning) the skirt was cut out in the shape of a donut. The inner circle depends on the desired size of the desired waist size.
In order to be able to put the skirt on and take it off, a small, clever slit was included.
Through that, the seamless character of the skirt is maintained.
The slit and top waistband were enclosed narrowly and both overlapping ends are used as a ribbon fastener.
About color designing with wax:
The stretched silk was first painted in pastel shades of yellow and orange. After drying, delicate twirls were applied along the hem using wax and a tjanting tool. Afterward, another layer of color was applied using a bristle brush, in more intensive shades and more twirls running all around. The more wax/color layers alternate, the more color depth is created.
The circular hem was enclosed with a rolled hem of an overlock machine.
Here a summery light full skirt with a clever wrapping technique.
As out of one piece, without any side seams, tucks or fasteners.
After sewing, the skirt was dyed in one piece in a pot with steam fixable silk paint.
The top consists of a Pongee scarf that was tied in the back.
The base is a cut open piece of tube out of single jersey, approximately 120x120cm in size. This skirt was not cut out completely round but rather in a slightly oval shape, for a discreetly tail like look. The unusual thing about this model is the fastener solution: both ribbon fasteners, which are used to tie the waist size in a variable way, are simply cut out of the inner part.
The inner cut edge were later bordered with a narrow stripe of single jersey.
Hereby, always choose stretchable seams.
More details can be discovered when zoomed in.
