Adding Beauty

So it was coming down to crunch time, my silk HAD to get made. I went in to see Dundee Stitch Masters - recommended by Gus, who sometimes teaches things on IPD- to see if they could make my a garter from scratch and how long. I went in with absolutely nothing and tried to explain myself, she told me to come back with a drawing and they would see what they could do. I thought i better make a prototype cause i had no idea what i wanted. I pretty much decided on ruffles as not only did they look good i thought they would give out better light as it would allow the light to flow down the leg. I tried this out in the picture 3rd from top. before the silk was restricting the light.I bought a roll of black wrapping paper and sheets of black tissue paper. I bought the roll of paper because a) it was cheap and b) meant i didn't have to stick pieces of paper together to get the lenght of the garter. I bought the tissue paper as i thought i would be easy to ruffle and also easy to distinguish between the 2 for the tailors. So i set about prototyping what i wanted. 1 ruffle 2 ruffle 3 ruffle?? how long the ruffles, the distance between them, the height of them, the ratio to them and the garter. the size of the garter on the leg, all these details I worked out in an afternoon spent playing about. The ruffles i decided on was shown in the very first picture. Next I had to deiced on the perspex. I printed out copies of the design - read the chandelier perspex blog - and played with sticking 1 and 2 on the paper prototype and varying the size. this was obviously restricted by the battery and switch and its relationship to the garter. So i set off with my model, drawing and materials. handed it in on a Friday, got it back on the Wednesday and only £13.50 down -AMAZING!! the silk is interfaced with 2 layers of silk satin organza that was stiffened to give it shape. I also got a white one made the week later after ordering up some silk. I was stunned by the white one. Here's some pics

the wee circle bit is for the perspex to sit on.