Indelible ink designed for filling in wedding registers won't wash out so it was time to make a new one.
I still had the length of ivory, slubbed silk from the first one and a cog design sprang to mind. Paul originally being an engineer and the way that cogs fit together, working together, it's a good image. 3 equal sized cogs on one side representing the trinity and different sizes on the other, representing different people or communities working together, with the possibility of the trinity linking in.
The cogs are lining material in gold and bronze (which I already had) and a silver grey which had to be ordered. I also needed to order the "strongest" bonding so that the teeth on the cogs wouldn't fray.
Here the right-hand side is shown with the cogs bonded. You can see that the silk is very pale compared to the first stole. They really are the same fabric so it's slightly disturbing how discoloured the first one is...
In this picture you can see the image used for the design. It was downloaded from a steam-punk design and enlarged to fill the whole width of the stole.
The 3 trinity cogs have been edged with goldfingering in silver, antique gold and regular gold. There isn't a copper or bronze colour so the 2 different golds had to serve.
In this image, metallic buttons and sequins have been added for the centres of each cog. Each button post has been pulled through the silk plus a square of white felt and fixed with a tiny safety pin.
I haven't edged the internal spaces of the cogs. I was concerned that it wouldn't be easy to do it neatly plus, time was running out. Paul needs them on Sunday and this is my last free day.
The finished product - I'll try to get a more focused photo.
