Regency sewing question

[isabelladangelo]

I bought this lovely embroidered linen (I think it's cotton muslin) piece on Etsy a few days ago. It came in the mail today and it is lovely. The other piece I bought at the same time will be an Edwardian tea gown but this first piece, I'm thinking Regency.

My problem is that the embroidery only goes along the hem and up one edge. That's not a big deal for the Edwardian, but it is for the Regency. I was thinking of cutting the heavily embroidered piece to make it into a train. The problem is then it would be a pointed train so....does anyone know off the top of their head of any examples of a pointed train during the Regency period I could look up? I've seen rounded and squared but not pointed.

Comments

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Maybe you could do something sort of piecing or insertion? Not quite sure...

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to see if there is a way I can cut it and not ruin the embroidery. The embroidery is really concentrated in the one corner and along the border. There are also small flowers embroidered through out -it's sort of like a pallu and half a sari! :-)

I started to think that *maybe* doing something like the half robe in Patterns of Fashion 1 might be better. With the criss-cross front, the mismatched embroidery wouldn't be as noticeable... But I'm not sure.