Margaret Layton’s Jacket Fitted
Time for round two with the jacket mock-up!
Time for round two with the jacket mock-up!
I finally got around to making a mock-up of the jacket pattern I scaled up last year. I thought it would be fun to see the jacket straight from the scaled up pattern on a body. I’m wearing it over my Elizabethan shirt, kirtle and red petticoat, it is just pinned and basted together in… Read More Margaret Layton’s Jacket Pattern Mocked Up.
Based on several patterns from Pattern of Fashion 4, this is a simplified version of the gored and gusseted shirt patterns. I drew this up for a friend just learning to sew, so there are fewer pieces to deal with. Each grid square equals 1 inch, drafted for 45 inch wide fabric and will take about 3… Read More Simplified Tudor or Elizabethan Shirt Pattern
Since getting The Queen’s Servant’s I’ve been coveting the pointed hood with a sort of fiendish glee, it also might be an under layer to the strange headdress in Holbein the Younger’s drawing. A month ago I scaled up the pattern and made a mock-up. It was huge, it devoured my head. I have a normal… Read More The Queen’s Servants Pointed Hood, or my Induction into a Secret Gnome Society.
Write up and photos are here
From a recent Christie’s auction, Follower of Francesco Salviati del Rossi Portrait of a Lady.
18 eyelets left to go.
This is a budget kirtle (total cost for materials maybe 30 bucks?) made for a friend who lives several states away. I had a chance to do one unplanned fitting on her of a mock-up from old measurements, I pinned the heck out of it, scribbled a few notes, and took it away with… Read More The Cranberry Test Kirtle
Here is a run down of all the layers. Cotton/linen smock: Machine sewn with hand finished seams and hems. Cuffs: Machine “blackwork” with silk thread, hand hemmed, they lace on to the smock cuffs with fingerloop braid so I can change them out as needed and wash them separately. Rust red petticoat: Same one I… Read More Green Tudor/Henrician Gown Finished!