ESB Cape Appears to Have Seams

I looked fabric tonight called wool suiting, much thinner than a blanket. It looks great, but it still seemed too thick to allow for the nice hemmed edges seen in some movie stills. Those hems appear to have a double fold. I no longer think the cape was made from a blanket. Could a stripe have been spray painted or dyed? I seem to recall some one on the site saying they used dye to create a stripe. Rafel Fett. Your template looks great and explains why the cape appears to go over the shoulder.
 
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Heck, any kind of bleaching can do weird things to colors. I was attempting to permanently weather some soft parts with cloth dyes when it all went wrong. To get rid of it (and the underlying fabric color for a re-dye), I used RIT's color remover. While my ESB flightsuit managed to somehow retain its original color yet bleach out the offending pinkish hue, my ESB cape turned green with a yellow stripe. Weird.

After experiencing that, I can get onboard with JimmyC's suggestion about the interesting color changes that any sort of bleaching can do.
 
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I'm going to switch to the dimensions Raf provided but I wont be switching to wool until concrete proof comes to light that it is in fact a wool fabric. Wool is very expensive and while the Khaki color may not be difficult to find the strip color will be it's just not a style current color. Switching to wool will also make these capes much more costly. Wool suiting is$20-$25 per yard.
 
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I'm going to switch to the dimensions Raf provided but I wont be switching to wool until concrete proof comes to light that it is in fact a wool fabric. Wool is very expensive and while the Khaki color may not be difficult to find the strip color will be it's just not a style current color. Switching to wool will also make these capes much more costly. Wool suiting is$20-$25 per yard.

I can't wait to see the end result. I think too the wool is not THE material used for the cape, but I might be wrong.
 
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Yes wool suiting is expensive, but it would look nice. I folded the fabric at an end a couple times and got the impression that it too was a bit thick. I plan to try cotton and see if I can lightly spray paint on a stripe
 
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The capes I make don't have any stitches at the seam since I use a serger machine. There isn't a commercially available dye that I've found for the stripe. Tests with dye to try and get a crisp line have always had extreme bleeding ad well. I did a circuit of stores today and there is wool suiting thin enough but no colors other than black or striking patterns. I will have a new cape to show tonight
 
In doing some research of fabric types, and having access to seamstress of about 40 years, I think the cape might be linen based. As for the stripe, I don't think it's died.... trying to get a line that clean as I've been told is very hard, not impossible but really hard.

And there is a way to sew that stripe where the seam isn't visible.

I'm hoping to have something to show after the first of the year.......
 
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None of the capes I make have visible seams. Linen is a fabric with a texture to it in different degrees. I don't see any of hat in the cape. Here's a shot of the seam on one of my capes.
I'm concerned with the recent CRL changes that the requirements for the cape fabric are going to be changed without knowing what the real cape was made from.
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Unless we can say for sure what it is, there would be no reason to change it...... the CRL that is.........

Good discussion....
 
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This is the wool cape I made. I had to dye it and spray paint on the stripe.

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I think to make a two sided invisible seam would mean a double layer of fabrics.

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