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From: suzan
Date: 12-23-2004, 02:48 PM (1 of 13)
| Can someone tell me please what exactly is the difference between underlining and lining? Or is it the same thing? |
User: suzan
Member since: 03-05-2002 Total posts: 22 |
From: paroper
Date: 12-24-2004, 04:22 AM (2 of 13)
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Underlining is between the fabric and the lining. Depending upong the garment, underlining can be heavy like a coat or it can be light weight like in some evening gowns. It adds body to the item and can be used to hide things like boning.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: MaryW
Date: 12-24-2004, 04:58 AM (3 of 13)
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Depending on the garment it may also add warmth. For instance, Thinsulate in winter clothes. There is the outside fabric, thinsulate and lining.
MaryW
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From: suzan
Date: 12-24-2004, 02:47 PM (4 of 13)
| O.k. Thanks, it sounds like something that I would want to avoid - too complicated for me. And I definitely don't need any extra warmth. But just to see if I understand - if I cut a skirt out of cotton material and cut the exact pattern pieces out of poplin (for example) and sewed the poplin to the cotton, that would be the underlining, right? The two materials would be sewn together and treated as one? Would I still need to line the skirt or would that be o.k. just like that? |
User: suzan
Member since: 03-05-2002 Total posts: 22 |
From: paroper
Date: 12-24-2004, 04:33 PM (5 of 13)
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It isn't always done that way but you have the right idea. It probalby wouldn't be a cotton. I have done it on some pretty inexpensive slinky fabric with a nice quality stiffer but compatable lining fabric and then added an additional lining and it has turned into a dynomite evening gown. There is a special type of interlining that is often used in tailoring. It may or may not be a total reproduction of the entire coat. For example, in a swing coat it might be in upper part across the shoulders and all the way down the front. In that case it adds quite a bit of stabilization as well as body. In an evening gown it might just be in the bodice.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: suzan
Date: 12-25-2004, 12:37 AM (6 of 13)
| Thanks, Pam, for the information. Where I live, we use mostly cotton and even the lining is poplin. I wouldn't know where to begin to look for underlining material as nothing is ever noted as to what it is. It seems to me that you just have to know your materials. Next time I get to Canada I will have to check this out. Thanks again. |
User: suzan
Member since: 03-05-2002 Total posts: 22 |
From: paroper
Date: 12-25-2004, 12:46 AM (7 of 13)
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Wow! Canada is a long way from Africa! I'm not familiar with the area you have listed. Where are you located and what is the climate like? Is it arid or tropical and humid?
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: suzan
Date: 12-25-2004, 09:11 AM (8 of 13)
| Benin is in between Nigeria and Togo with Niger to the North and the Atlantic Ocean to the South. It's actually what they used to call the slave coast. We have two wet seasons and two dry seasons. So I guess that makes it tropical and humid. It's a beautiful country. We love it here. |
User: suzan
Member since: 03-05-2002 Total posts: 22 |
From: paroper
Date: 12-25-2004, 09:56 AM (9 of 13)
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Sounds lovely.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 12-25-2004, 04:22 PM (10 of 13)
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Suzan -- When you line or underline you can use any fabric but in a jacket or coat you want something slippery in the sleeves so you can slide it on and off easily. When you sew the fasion fabric to the underlining and treat it as one, that is underlining. Then you can line it or not. I sometimes use the underlining technique as a substitute for lining or in a pattern that doesn't allow for regular lining. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 12-26-2004, 12:45 PM (11 of 13)
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Suzan, I think I am confused by the term poplin for the lining for cotton fabric.. Poplin is cotton , of course, but it is a heavier weight than regular 100 % cotton (regular weight).. It is a weave that is similar to twill or denim.. Is that what you are calling poplin? It sounds to me that you are lining a thinner fabric with a heavier one?? 
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Libby |
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From: paroper
Date: 12-26-2004, 04:04 PM (12 of 13)
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Fabrics and fabric quality vary from country to country. One of my sewing buddies just came back from Brazil. She had gone down to make home dec projects for a mission of sorts. She very few of the fabrics we would have expected to find in the USA but they had LOTS or fabrics. Even the types of trims were not available as we know them and the many of the ones that we are familiar with were sold in the same way we buy them here. What we would call poplin here would not necessarily be the same thing as poplin some place else. It is probably dependant upon where their fabrics are manufactored.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: suzan
Date: 12-29-2004, 04:09 PM (13 of 13)
| It could be that I am using the french word (as they call it here). I wouldn't know what they call it in english. But it is cotton mixed with polyester. I am not sure of the percentage - maybe 60% cotton and 40% polyester or 65/35. Some blends seem thinner than others. Anyways that is what is used here for lining. It seems to be cooler than other linings. |
User: suzan
Member since: 03-05-2002 Total posts: 22 |
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