Tiered skirt instructions

That's great fabric. I'm sure this has a very reasonable explanation but what is a broomstick skirt? Halloween is well over and it's 6 months to the next one. I think I'm missing something somewhere! Should I be assigning my brooms to new uses?

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the other day. Thought that would be Perfect for one of these skirts.> NAYY. Just thought I'd point it out. ;)>> Sharon

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Viviane
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Perhaps it's a US thing, but see here:

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's a skirt, usually quite full at the hem, usually of a gauzy fabric, and crushed or twisted while wet to be crinkled or pleated. Not sure why that became known as "broomstick", seems to me that "broom" would more closely describe the effect. HTH, NAYY,

Beverly

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BEI Design

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> It's a skirt, usually quite full at the hem, usually of a gauzy > fabric, and crushed or twisted while wet to be crinkled or pleated. > Not sure why that became known as "broomstick", seems to me that > "broom" would more closely describe the effect. >

Maybe it's because you twist them into a sausage shape then wrap them round the 'stick' of the broom for the skirt to dry to get that crinkled effect?

Sarah

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Sarah Dale

Sarah, your answer is very close.......I had one my Mother made for me in the late 40's, maybe 51 or so.....around there......they were all the rage then, too. (or at least they were in Arizona)

You actually dried the skirt on a broomstick, tied in several places with pieces of string to get the crinkles......hence........broomstick skirt. At the time they were often called (pardons if this is not PC) Squaw skirts...because the Navajo women wore the same style.

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Pat in Arkansas

I wrote: ...

Saw some yesterday at a hippy-dippy sort of indoor fair. They (the Indian laborers) had made the tiers out of very sheer loud prints. Colorful ribbon top-stitched at each tier intersection, to provide stability and additional strength (also because the stitching wouldn't look so good viewed through the layers).

HTH

--Karen D.

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Veloise

The reason they were called "broom stick" skirts was because while they were wet you would wind them around a broom stick and then wind twine around that. You left it until it was dry. That is what made the wrinkles. Dot in Tennessee

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Scare Crowe

When you cut on a drawn thread it's possible, with the aid of a high-powered lens, to pick up the same thread on the other side of embroidery and continue drawing it, even when the thread broke at an eyelet.

I have, of course, no idea whether this particular fabric will draw at all. Sometimes you can't tear and can't draw and just have to cross your fingers and hope that the fabric was straight when the design was applied.

(with knits, you can't even count on the selvages to be on the straight of grain -- often the side edges of the fabric are lengthwise cuts.)

Joy Beeson

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Joy Beeson

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