Colefax Fowler Linen Pinch Pleat To Pattern

Music: Images Of Tomorrow by Unicorn Head
Fabric: Esta in Red/Forest by Colefax & Fowler

You join me in the latter stages of making the most beautiful lined and interlined fully hand sewn curtains with lovely traditional triple pinch pleats carefully located to follow the design of the fabric and create a pleat to pattern finish. The fabric was not only a somewhat unstable linen which twists and skews as its worked on, it was also printed in a rather rudimentary fashion so the pattern doesn't line up across the width. The stripes that run vertically are also not evenly spaced and there was barely any extra print at the selvedges to create a good pattern match. Because of all these quirks, getting straight bottom and side hems was a challenge in itself. Extra fabric had to be added to the selvedges to create false turns so that pattern reuired to make turnings and form the pleat to pttern heading was not lost. A compromise approach was therefore necessary to share out all these quirks to create the most pleasing curtains with good pattern placement.

I pick up recording after the curtains themselves are made and I've added the buckram and turned to the top hems at the heading.

🕑 TIMESTAMPS 🕑

00:05 - Slip stitching the lining to the fabric hem at the top of the curtain
05:55 - Ironing the top hem
06:06 - Turning the curtain over
06:14 - Ironing the heading from the face to fix the buckram in place
06:30 - Calculated pleat locations and marking with pins
07:18 - Machining the pleats into the buckram (not filmed)
07:28 - Finger pressing open the pleat seams
07:42 - Forming the buckram heading into triple pleats
08:25 - Backtacking the bottom of the pleats at the machine (not filmed)
08:28 - Checing, flattening and arranging the finished curtain at the table
08:47 - Inserting pin hooks
09:12 - Test hanging the curtain in the workroom
09:24 - The finished curtain

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