Hello,
A friend of mine just asked me what are gazar and radzimir fabrics. I have no idea. Has anybody heard about them? Thanks in advance for your help.
Lise-Laure
Hello,
A friend of mine just asked me what are gazar and radzimir fabrics. I have no idea. Has anybody heard about them? Thanks in advance for your help.
Lise-Laure
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Gazar [no pronunciation listed] "Silk or wool fabric with crisp hand and flat, smooth texture. Plain weave with high-twist double yarns interlaced as one.
radzimir
Thank you very much, Becky. I didn't look for these fabrics on Internet because I was pretty sure my friend had already tried. It seems I was wrong.
Lise-Laure
Sorry not to know how to shorten the link here, but the designer Adri had a number of ensembles a few years ago that featured silk gazar, usually as a short, light jacket. The fabric is sheer, like organza, but very stiff. About halfway down this page is a picture of a strange white dress made of gazar, showing that stiffness (the appliqués on the chest are a different fabric).
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.origamisources.com/images/dress2.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.origamisources.com/origami_sightings_fashion.htm&h=475&w=290&sz=78&hl=en&start=102&tbnid=cn9_HEf9rBHlrM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=76&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2Bgazar%26start%3D90%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN
A few years ago, Vogue patterns ran a series of patterns by Adri, and the envelopes showed the use of gazar. You might be able to track those down on ebay.
Edited 9/5/2006 11:08 am by woodruff
Thank you very much. The picture of the dress is interesting: gazar seems to be a really stiff fabric. Did you ever make something out of it?
Lise-Laure
No, I never made anything from it, precisely because it was very, very stiff. I think it would be terrific fabric for angel wings for a costume!
Whenyou look at Balenciaga designs he used alot of silk gazar . It was very useful for his architectural constructions!!
Hello Marianne,
I think "architectural constructions" gives me a good idea of how gazar looks and feels. Thank you.
Lise-Laure
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