Simonnot Godard Chambray

[brescd01]

I love a (what I thought to be) Italian fabric in (what I thought to be) end-on-end. Yesterday, a shirtmaker told me this is a chambray. It is my favorite shirt fabric, bar none. I could wear only this and be happy. Simonnot's chambrays have been touted before. First, can anyone post a picture of chambray next to end-on-end to definitively resolvethe terminology issue? I am talking about the finest chambray, light material one would only use for shirts, not the heavy denim-like material.

Second, does anyone have pictures of solid blue Simonnot fabric? And is this fabric available? I have a shirtmaker who will make fabric into shirts if I can it.

 

[dopey]

I imagine one of your fellow knights would be able to help.

Having been halted at the gates of the nine doors, peasants like me don't get to wear such fancy stuff.

 

[Manton]

They will only sell it in 50 M rolls. Very few shirtmakers will bite at those terms.

 

[brescd01]

I was offered membership, I have not joined yet. I don't even know if the offer is still good. RE chambray, any pictures?

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by brescd01

I was offered membership, I have not joined yet. I don't even know if the offer is still good. RE chambray, any pictures?
If you need a squire, I work cheap.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Manton

They will only sell it in 50 M rolls. Very few shirtmakers will bite at those terms.

How many shirts will that make...about twenty?

Buy one roll, and get various configurations made up...hmmm...


- B

 

[brescd01]

If someone could clarify for me what chambray is, I might split a roll, if that is accurate, 50 m makes 20 shirts.

 

[JSTF]

i'll get into that too. a short sleeved shirt for myself takes 2/2.5 yards depending on the width of the fabric (chest p2p: 40 and length: 31)

 

[brescd01]

There is no way I could afford someone as classy as you Dopey! Pictures so that I know what the Hell I am talking about? What is the fabric Manton (sic?) wrote everyone wears in Naples?

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by brescd01

There is no way I could afford someone as classy as you Dopey! Pictures so that I know what the Hell I am talking about? What is the fabric Manton (sic?) wrote everyone wears in Naples?

Can't help with the pictures. I have blue end on end, but no chambray and no idea what people where in Naples.

 

[dv3]

chambray: a lightweight fabric woven with a white weft and a colored warp

it is rather general, so a number of fabrics can qualify.

 

[whnay.]

I'd take a shirt length.

 

[Kuro]

Is this the stuff???

 

[brescd01]

Minus the decorations, that is it I am pretty sure.

 

[Holdfast]

Originally Posted by whnay.

I'd take a shirt length.

Ditto. Maybe two lengths.