Jan 23 & 27 -- lower skirt

[kproche]

The next big job was building the canvas underlayer for the grass skirt. The result is a combination of petticoat and corset technology:

Canvas wrapped and pinned to fit the skirt frame of TDK

Beginning to drape canvas around the skirt frame of TDK

The completed French seams in the canvas skirting Dowels will slide right into those channels

right side view of the completed canvas skirting

Pinned and marked to stitch the french seams in the skirting

The numbered custom cut struts for the canvas underskirt

Canvas underskirt attached to the frame Oblique side view of the strutted underskirt on the TDK frame

Front view -- canvas underskirtt on the frame The dowels in the French seam pockets give nice crisp contours to the edges.

Frame with underskirt and one wrap of raffia Here's a test wrap of raffia over the muslin underskirt. in the center of the photo it's two layers deep; I have enough raffia to do that all the way around

Lower edge of underskirt with grommets Now that the test fit was a success, I put the grommets in the bottom edge -- one at each vertex and one for each line of coconuts. A matching coconut-anchor-grommet was added to the top edge

Upper edge of underskirt with coconut line grommets

Closeup Jus tin case you've never seen a grommet :-)

The underskirt, propped against a wall