How to Cut Material Away from a Wedding Dress

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Summary: Learn how to recycle a wedding dress into a hot, new fashion in this free video clip about cutting the fabric.

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Julia Barbee Julia Barbee has degrees in Marketing and
Three-Dimensional Design. She has shown her sculptural
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How to Cut Material Away from a Wedding Dress

My name is Julia Barbee, and my clothing line is Frocky Jack Morgan. On behalf of Expert Village, this is a tutorial on recycling and deconstructing old clothes. I also don’t like these pieces, so I’m going to cut those off, or at least start them, and then I’ll just rip again because I really like the way that is looking. So finally I think I’m going to rip all of the lace off the back train of this dress, because I really just don’t like the lace that they applied. Actually I don’t even have to cut this time; I’m just going to rip it. Okay sometimes you might come across some seams that you might have to cut near as well. Not everything is as clean as it might be. You’re just going to have to go with the flow. I would say when I first started deconstructing, this is not the way I began. It might take a few years even for you to get this courageous because it can feel wrong to rip into things like this. I think it's important to be willing to risk and a lot of times it ends up being more beautiful than you thought it might have been. So here is the finished product for this dress. No sleeves, no lace work. But it’s kind of nice. I think you get a little bit of a ghost impression on the garment so you can see that it’s been deconstructed, and I actually find that really beautiful. I think the train is a lot more interesting this way and I might add bead work along some of these lines now. But I think this dress has been greatly improved by my ripping it apart.