Just curious… before I take my seam ripper to these two silk meisen kimono, do you think I ought to keep them intact, or cut up to sell in pieces? They have been sitting on the shelf just a little too long for my liking and I’d like to move them, one way or another.
As an incentive, I’ll send a vintage kimono fabric pack to one random poster in this thread. Winner will be chosen on Sunday, July 26.
So, keep, or cut?
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I think that you should sell them intact. Cute fabrics by they way! :o)
I would be more likely to buy them as pieces instead of a whole – but they are not patterns that I would be generally interested in.
I think those fabrics are great! I vote for selling in pieces, they’d be great accents for other fabrics, I think.
I think it depends on the condition. Are they still wearable? If so, I would leave them intact. If they are showing a lot of damage and no longer useable as a garment, then I would salvage what I could and sell in pieces. Hope that helps. 🙂
To answer your question Cindy, they are in wearable condition. Damaged kimono never even make it in front of the camera before I tear them apart! It’s tedious, but fun.
i think you should keep them as they are since they are in wearable condition. would be a shame to cut it up. 🙂
I’m torn too. If still wearable, keep intact. But if it’s not moving, small pieces would be easier to sell. Okay, I talked myself into it: cut!
I say, if they’re not moving as is, it’s time to try something new. If you’re thinking about chopping them up, you know you really want to, right 🙂
Wow, this is a tough call. They’re wonderful fabrics. I think on the assumption that a buyer would cut them up, you should cut ’em. I love the pinwheels!
I think they would look great in patchwork, so my vote is to cut 🙂
If they are not moving, I think to let the fabric “live” is to cut them sell them as pieces. However, I do understand wanting to leave them intact, since they are in good condition. I even have a hard time cutting up thrift-shop pieces or old T-shirts to use the fabric because I see an inherent value in the fact that they have already been put together in usable form…
I’d probably take a deep breath, close my eyes (at least for the first cut) say “thank you” to the kimonos for having served their purpose and cut them.