reply about horsehair

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mxbuster https://www.tumblr.com/mxbuster replied to this post https://www.tumblr.com/bomberqueen17/695370391336665088/on-horsehair-in-fibercrafting

Tailoring uses horsehair fabric as a stiffener, as did Victorian crinolines and bustle pads. There’s a contemporary braided trim that’s called horsehair braid but is in fact now synthetic used to make hairpin tabs and such in hats, also edge stabilizing in wedding garments.

OH YEAH i can’t believe i forgot to mention horsehair braid and crinolines. I believe “crinoline” even literally means like. horsehair-and-linen.

There was something I was looking at horsehair braid for, I don’t remember now, a few months ago, and I was like “could i just braid horsehair for this” and i literally did not look into it any farther than that because like why would anyone do that, but I did have a bunch of it in my cart. I do wish I could remember what I was getting it for. I know you use it in the hems of retro-style circle skirts too sometimes, maybe it was for that i was thinking about it. Never did make that circle skirt did I. (Your picture was not posted)