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| My other Italian wool cloak for sale in the HSV Gift Shop |
Friday, October 5, 2012
Child's Red Shaker Cape
I recently created this cape. A similar short cape hangs in the children's retiring room in the Brick Dwelling at Hancock Shaker Village (photo below taken by a student lizzie at HSV on a field trip). I have been wanting to make a similar one and was keeping my eye out for a good piece of red wool. This is a medium weight Italian twill I found from fashionfabrics.com. I washed it on the gentle setting with Woolite and warm water, then dried it on low heat until not quite dry. It fluffed up and gained a more handwoven look, but did not shrink at all. What a fabric! I made the pattern, sewed it up, and it is now for sale in the gift shop at Hancock Shaker Village.
see her blog: http://wanderingwrites.com/tag/hancock-shaker-village/
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There is one child's cape for sale at Hancock Shaker Village. I make my own patterns - the one for the cape is proprietary and it is not for sale. Anyone interested in the pattern could conceivably purchase the cape from HSV and reverse engineer it.
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