Tiered skirt instructions

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

Beverly

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

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.

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.

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

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