After washing it's quite soft and gets softer with each washing. Silk Noil is comfortable and reasonalbe, and the natural is a great colour as well. Like silk noil, it gets softer each time you wash it. It's usually about $2.07 at Wal Marts or about $5.00 at Jo Anns, while it feels a little stiff on the bolt, it gets very soft after washing & drying, it's makes up wonderfully, and is cheap enough that you can buy extra for mistakes, or extra things like a sabre sack for carrying your EL blades or FX sabres, or a "Jedi Bag" for carrying stuff at cons etc, (less noticable than your average nylon backpack) it's also a very cool fabric to wear, breathes well, washes easily and is soft a drapey, so it hangs well. One of my favourites is cotton OSNABURG, 100% natural, unbleached, undyed and a great colour for Jedi Tunics and Tabbards & Obi, also takes dye in a nice ubeven rustic way. I think this makes set number 7, however, I've only got 2 now, so this is the 3rd for me to wear. I've just made myself another set of tan tunics, using the waist seam style pattern favored by Nova (?) and Leda. In any case, we all regard our Jedi garb as works in progress. If it is too lightweight, though, it will not have enough "body" to look quite right. However, for one's first tunic, there is nothing wrong with going with inexpensive cotton, which can be had for as little as $1 or 2 per yard with careful shopping. A blend of linen/rayon is next best as at least rayon is cellulose. Jedi garb has so many layers that you will be very hot in anything else. Whatever you do, choose 100% natural tton, linen, silk, wool. Joann's use the term "Linen-look" and is NOT linen, it is polyester.
Be sure to do so before you cut out the pattern.īe careful with what JoAnn's calls "linen". A light weight silk noil can be had at Thai silk for a very reasonable price.īoth linen and raw silk can be washed. Lately, though, I've favored raw silk as that was what Qui-Gon's tunics were made of.
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