Darth Maul Fabric and Patterns??

[KaanE]

I have been looking at my pics and some of Gino's Maul and the scarf doesn't look silk to me anymore :confused Maybe I have been looking pics too much time but now it looks to me some wrinkled material, not too heavy, between light and mid-weight.

Please input :confused

Here're two pics posted here some time ago in a Gino's thread:



:thumbsup

 

[KaanE]

Now I'm 98% sure, I have seen some closer pictures and it looks definetly a black cotton crepe like this one, I will look for it definetly:

There you can see an aumented close-up, and how it looks really.

 

[Eopie Herder]

Now I'm 98% sure, I have seen some closer pictures and it looks definetly a black cotton crepe like this one, I will look for it definetly:

There you can see an aumented close-up, and how it looks really.

I've found that in a Wal-Mart. I have a lot of it in brown.

 

[Kwally89]

Now I'm 98% sure, I have seen some closer pictures and it looks definetly a black cotton crepe like this one, I will look for it definetly:

There you can see an aumented close-up, and how it looks really.

I've already ordered samples of silk crepe, cotton/linen crepe, and a cotton crinkle fabric. I am sure from these samples we will get a good estimate of what it really is. That fabric was actually the easiest of all for me to identify. I have ordered over 20-25 various fabrics to test! We will know the truth soon....I hope :confused.

 

[KaanE]

I have ordered over 20-25 various fabrics to test! We will know the truth soon....I hope :confused.

That's the way to go! And remember what Edison said: "I haven't done 1000 failures, I have done 1000 ways of how not to do a Darth Maul" :lol

I've found that in a Wal-Mart. I have a lot of it in brown.

I wish I were in USA, we don't have Wal-Mart here

 

[Eopie Herder]

That's the way to go! And remember what Edison said: "I haven't done 1000 failures, I have done 1000 ways of how not to do a Darth Maul" :lol



I wish I were in USA, we don't have Wal-Mart here

Wouldn't do much good anyway, it seems like all of the Wal-Marts around me have started removing the fabric sections.

 

[Kwally89]

That's the way to go! And remember what Edison said: "I haven't done 1000 failures, I have done 1000 ways of how not to do a Darth Maul" :lol

Haha! Nice! I hope it doesn't take that many failed attempts! :lol

 

[Kwally89]

Wouldn't do much good anyway, it seems like all of the Wal-Marts around me have started removing the fabric sections.

Yep....my Wal-Mart doesn't even carry thread anymore!! It sucks because I have to go a lot further to get to Joann's, and their thread/fabrics costs quite a bit more.

 

[KaanE]

Now that we have the scarf fabric more or less matched, we must go to match the under tunic fabric.

Oh, and as a detail, at the new pics I have seen, the rear/under side of the scarf (the non visible side) is made with the same fabric the under tunic is. Or at least that's what I can see.

 

[WarpedScale]

Wow, a thread about Maul and detail, haven't seen one in a while.

Well the costume that Gino patterned for his replica was mine. The pepsi statue's patterns are way off in quite a few places: inner tunic, collar, sashes, loin cloth on the leather belt, etc etc. As far as the fabrics, what I can tell you are the outer coat is linen, a heavy linen. The reason why it looks different between Gino's and the on screen version is that the on screen suit was laundered and dried which causes the pilling that you see on the coat. Gino's was made directly from new fabric and never laundered. The inner tunic is a medium linen. Both the inner and outer linens were a plain weave. The sashes were indeed silk, I bought about 10 yards of the exact stuff that we had to boil and then dye with 2 separate colors to get that sort of distictive gray. The boiling causes the silk to crinkle tighter. The entire outer coat was lined with a sort of satin fabric except the sleeves were not lined, the sashes and the loin cloth were also lined, I'll have to go back and check the sash around the neck, which was attached permanently to the outer coat. The pants were an extremely hard to find cotton in a very specific weave that had specks of blue in it that was almost unnoticeable.

Gino got his seamstress to match the fabrics including dye lot specifically to my original and also added every stitch and detail that was in the original costume even if it looked like a mistake. :lol

I'll try to tell you what I can and what I can remember, since I have since sold the suit. You can take it with a grain of salt or whatever.

That reminds me that I need to get back to a guy about some Maul cloak fabric he wanted from me. Here are a few photos of the fabric I had made for me in India. If the fabric looks bulky in these shots it's because I either doubled or tripled it over. You can see that in the second photo.

This last photo is the fabric held up. There is no DIRECT light behind it forcing the light through, just natural sheerness.

Sadly the patterns that we had made from the original costume got lost somewhere between the seamstress and Gino.

Ryu

 

[Kwally89]

Wow, a thread about Maul and detail, haven't seen one in a while.

Well the costume that Gino patterned for his replica was mine. The pepsi statue's patterns are way off in quite a few places: inner tunic, collar, sashes, loin cloth on the leather belt, etc etc. As far as the fabrics, what I can tell you are the outer coat is linen, a heavy linen. The reason why it looks different between Gino's and the on screen version is that the on screen suit was laundered and dried which causes the pilling that you see on the coat. Gino's was made directly from new fabric and never laundered. The inner tunic is a medium linen. Both the inner and outer linens were a plain weave. The sashes were indeed silk, I bought about 10 yards of the exact stuff that we had to boil and then dye with 2 separate colors to get that sort of distictive gray. The boiling causes the silk to crinkle tighter. The entire outer coat was lined with a sort of satin fabric except the sleeves were not lined, the sashes and the loin cloth were also lined, I'll have to go back and check the sash around the neck, which was attached permanently to the outer coat. The parts were an extremely hard to find cotton in a very specific weave that had specks of blue in it that was almost unnoticeable.

Gino got his seamstress to match the fabrics including dye lot specifically to my original and also added every stitch and detail that was in the original costume even if it looked like a mistake. :lol

I'll try to tell you what I can and what I can remember, since I have since sold the suit. You can take it with a grain of salt or whatever.

That reminds me that I need to get back to a guy about some Maul cloak fabric he wanted from me. Here are a few photos of the fabric I had made for me in India. If the fabric looks bulky in these shots it's because I either doubled or tripled it over. You can see that in the second photo.

This last photo is the fabric held up. There is no DIRECT light behind it forcing the light through, just natural sheerness.

Sadly the patterns that we had made from the original costume got lost somewhere between the seamstress and Gino.

Ryu

Holy crap! You rule man! I am extremely excited about doing this now. Thanks a million for sharing this with everyone. I knew it was a linen! I just knew it!

 

[WarpedScale]

Oops I mistyped that the pants were 100% cotton, not the parts.

Fixed in original post. Also to clarify, I'm not selling cloak fabric, it was just something we worked out.

Ryu

 

[KaanE]

Thank you very much Ryu Kumon! So that's what we have:

Inner Coat: Linen (Plain weave)

Sashes and loin cloth: Silk (looks like a crepe to me) - Lined with a satin fabric.

Outter Coat: Heavy Linen (Plain weave) - Lined with a satin fabric except for sleeves.

Pants: Cotton with a specific weave.

Belt: Leather the frontal part. Lined with satin fabric the rear/non-visible part.


That's PERFECT! :love

 

[Kwally89]

Thank you very much Ryu Kumon! So that's what we have:

Inner Coat: Linen (Plain weave)

Sashes and loin cloth: Silk (looks like a crepe to me) - Lined, I think it was lined with the inner coat fabric.

Outter Coat: Heavy Linen (Plain weave) - Lined with a satin fabric except for sleeves.

Pants: Cotton with a specific weave.

Is all this info correctly wrote Ryu?

That's PERFECT! :love

That is what I have penciled down! Now what am I going to do with all those raw silk samples....:lol

 

[KaanE]

That is what I have penciled down! Now what am I going to do with all those raw silk samples....:lol

You're going to choose the perfect one for a Yoda

 

[WarpedScale]

Thank you very much Ryu Kumon! So that's what we have:

Inner Coat: Linen (Plain weave)

Sashes and loin cloth: Silk (looks like a crepe to me) - Lined, I think it was lined with the inner coat fabric.

Outter Coat: Heavy Linen (Plain weave) - Lined with a satin fabric except for sleeves.

Pants: Cotton with a specific weave.

Is all this info correctly wrote Ryu?

That's PERFECT! :love

The sashes were lined with the same satin stuff that the outer coat was lined. Also the back of the leather under belt was lined with the same satin. And just for clarification it's not a satin persay but a lining material just looks like satin.

 

[KaanE]

The sashes were lined with the same satin stuff that the outer coat was lined. Also the back of the leather under belt was lined with the same satin.

Perfect! I will change that on my post. Do you have any pic of the satin fabric or at least what material was it made off? That would be supreme

 

[WarpedScale]

Perfect! I will change that on my post. Do you have any pic of the satin fabric or at least what material was it made off? That would be supreme

I have some pics of the original at home. I'll see what I have an what I can (or am willing) to post. I'd love to just give the info away but I have to also respect the current owner of the original suit, what I have never told people about the suit are his secrets now. Most of this info I posted before somewhere but I have no prob doing it again.

Ryu

 

[nwjedidave]

This last photo is the fabric held up. There is no DIRECT light behind it forcing the light through, just natural sheerness.

Sadly the patterns that we had made from the original costume got lost somewhere between the seamstress and Gino.

Ryu

This Maul fabric looks almost identical to the Anakin AOTC Cloak. From the first two pictures the fabric looks like it has a "brick wall" type of pattern.

I've only been lookin for this fabric (the Ani-cloak) since I first saw AOTC. Closest I've seen is this

 

[Kwally89]

What is the type of fabric you found for the AOTC cloak. It looks very nice!