Originally Posted by
AFS1970
ON the ones with tassels, is that the ribbon itself tied in a knot or is it bound with thread to create the end? Also for the ones with the angle cut, how have you prevented fraying? This looks like a project I may want to try myself.
On one end of the ribbon you can tease the warp thread out easily without knotting as it pulls. This is your "working end", you want to work from this end. The other end will knot and bind on the outside ends, you'll quickly find out.
What I did was unravel about two and a bit inches of the workiing end pulling the warp in one long thread. When the tassels are long enough I rolled the junction woven/unraveled and bound it using the warp thread. (No relation to Jerry's warp squirrels). Whip finish the end with your knot in the back and dab in frat check to secure the knot and binding. I used fray check to bind all cut ends except the tassles of course. I little goes a long way.
I used iron on velcro because the wife and daughter were sleeping. Use the widest elastic you can. Spread the pressure over a wider area for all day comfort. After I made tem I wore them for the rest of the night (midnight shift transition) without a problem. Just get the tension right.
"The Highland dress is essentially a 'free' dress, -- that is to say, a man's taste and circumstances must alone be permitted to decide when and where and how he should wear it... I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed." -- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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