[Artemisia] farthingale "bones"

[Sue Clemenger]

Plastic tubing used for water coolers (?) works really well, also, and 
comes pretty cheap.  Flexible enough to fit in a suitcase, easy to 
remove for cleaning the fabric part.  I used it for years in my 
farthingale....
--maire

Georgia Foster wrote:

> 
> I just found the most wonderful substitute for the boning material for 
> my farthingale.
> Walmart (and i suspect other department stores as well) sells platic 
> coated wire, as Laundry line, for about 2.95 for 50 ft. in the hardware 
> department.  two wraps makes about half an inch of the usual metal 
> boning tape, is sturdy enough to hold shape under about 35 lbs of dress, 
> Flexable enough to retain its shape, and bendy enough to let one through 
> the port-a-portal door.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Malkin
> Otherhill
> Artemisia
> 
> 
> "It is a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word" ...
> Thomas Jefferson
> 
> Jo (Georgia L.) Foster
> jo_foster81 at hotmail.com
> 
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