Inverness Cloak (Empire Canvas Works Pattern)

[Jock Scot]

I like it!

[Amoskeag]

That's some really nice work! It also helps that it is very well modeled. You wear it very well!

[BoldHighlander]

Okay Jamie, I'd like to know more about the walking stick your holding?

[thomsec]

Wow Jamie (and Richard), simply smashing! Amazing! Astounding!
And your hose are the proper length!

[kevinkinney]

Hello all,

I'm proud to see that W2F has done such an excellent job. I'm also eager to see how his next project goes. We're updating our cape patterns right now.

Before sending off the next round, I must touch on a more serious topic...I offer our patterns to the home sewer as a courtesy and a service on our part to help folks advance their skills. The charge we levy is simply to cover the time it takes to trace the patterns, the paper consumed, the basic directions, and shipping. It's all done by hand, just like the remainder of what happens in this shop, and the other craftsmen you see on this site. Larger companies like Vogue, McCalls, and Butterick print their patterns by the thousands, and profit from your shopping with little real concern for what happens once you open their envelope.

We make our money by selling outerwear. To that end, I ask that those who receive our patterns, consider them ECW intellectual-ish property. Use them freely to outfit yourself, your family, and your friends. But please think twice before cranking out capes by the dozen for sale. We've seen our other products copied by local businesses http://www.duluthpack.com/products.a...7&CategoryID=w, including former customers of ours who kept the text from our labels. It's a fact of life in my industry. We do our best to stay ahead when it comes to making outdoor clothing, but all things will become community property in some form or another.

Please use discretion.....your next parcel might be full of cream colored, electro-staticly charged cat fur. No lint roller in the world will keep your fine woolens safe.

Cheers,

Kevin.

[way2fractious]

... I ask that those who receive our patterns, consider them ECW intellectual-ish property. Use them freely to outfit yourself, your family, and your friends. But please think twice before cranking out capes by the dozen for sale.

Kevin, be assured I understand perfectly your concern and, believe me, I have no intention of commercializing this product.

As to the actual pattern, do I understand correctly that I may give this pattern to someone else, preferably an XMarker, as long as they agree to the "non-competition clause"?

I would like to know where to get the material that W2F used and is it waterproof?

A costumer (one who makes theatrical costumes) on eBay offered up 11 yards of this beautiful fabric about a year ago. Being the fabric sl.. I am - and with a prescient eye and a longing for an Inverness cape - I bought all of it. Good thing, too, because without a hood the cape uses about 5 or 5.5 yards, so I still have enough for a correctly sized cape.

The fabric is a polyester blend of some sort and is not waterproof. Perhaps a DWR spray (durable water repellent) from an outdoor store could provide some protection.

w2f

[BoldHighlander]

As to the actual pattern, do I understand correctly that I may give this pattern to someone else, preferably an XMarker, as long as they agree to the "non-competition clause"?

Is making one for myself (& not for sale/anyone else) "non-competitive" enough?!

[Panache]

Okay Jamie, I'd like to know more about the walking stick your holding?

I picked up two brass inlaid hardwood walking sticks made in India at TJ Maxx for $20 a couple of years ago. One lacked a handle and the other was adorned with a brass jockey's head. I took them home (discarding the ugly brass top of the second cane) and drilled a hole into the shaft. I then cleaned, sanded, and polished two deer antler coronas. After a little shaping to get them to sit nicely inside the brass fitting I drilled a hole in the antler pieces. Using two part epoxy I attached the pieces together with a stong bolt for strength.

When the epoxy cured I had one nice stick for a kilted gentleman and a swell Christmas present for his Dad.

Far more interesing was the walking stick I made for my wife's step-mother out of a twisted ficus house plant...

Cheers

Jamie

[BoldHighlander]

Very cool. Thanks!

Any pictures of the 'twisted ficus'?
(I think I just said something naughty!?! )

I picked up two brass inlaid hardwood walking sticks made in India at TJ Maxx for $20 a couple of years ago. One lacked a handle and the other was adorned with a brass jockey's head. I took them home (discarding the ugly brass top of the second cane) and drilled a hole into the shaft. I then cleaned, sanded, and polished two deer antler coronas. After a little shaping to get them to sit nicely inside the brass fitting I drilled a hole in the antler pieces. Using two part epoxy I attached the pieces together with a stong bolt for strength.

When the epoxy cured I had one nice stick for a kilted gentleman and a swell Christmas present for his Dad.

Far more interesing was the walking stick I made for my wife's step-mother out of a twisted ficus house plant...

Cheers

Jamie

[Panache]

Very cool. Thanks!

Any pictures of the 'twisted ficus'?

Well here is an opportunity to see how well my scanner works.

Here is a picture from 2003 (sorry it is rather small but my efforts to make it bigger failed)




The "dragon" stick was one of those fancy twisted ficus tree houseplants one can buy in a fair number of places. It had died (read: my parents killed it) and had been tossed on the rubbish heap. I removed the branches and set the thing to finish drying out in my garage. The main root did have a nice bend to it but was sadly unsightly. Once completely dry I started rubbing it with various varnishes and tung oil, letting it dry again, and then lightly sanding it. Over the course a couple of months it became quite smooth and pretty hard. When I was satisfied with the wood I fashioned a leather "head" and called on the lovely F-H.C.A.G. 's skill at tying sutures to fix it into place.

It actually turned out to be a good walking stick. My wife's Step Mother was amazed at how light the thing was. When she asked what wood it was made of I loved the chance to say "houseplant!"

The other staff with the jaspar top for my Father-in-law took a lot less time but wasn't nearly as fun to make.

Cheers

Jamie