Making a 16th century Man's Jacket -- Part 1
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The Modern Maker workroom is working again! In this video we learn how to make a 16th century jacket from a Spanish pattern that was published in a book more than four hundred years ago. Published during the Elizabethan era, this Spanish text has layouts for many different kinds of clothing from dresses, to jackets, to corsets (stays), petticoats, cloaks and more.
For this lesson I will explore the world of tailors that didn't have paper patterns available as a crutch. Armed with nothing more than proportion tape measures, a piece of tailor's chalk and a diagram of a jacket pattern, a skill craftsman could create a remarkable garment.
For the early modern enthusiast, this jacket has a far reaching wearability for various time periods. It is so common and easy to make that it spans a nearly 300 year period of history.
The world of historical clothing just isn't complete without directions to cut out a simple jacket like this one.
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A whole 30 seconds into the video. I LOVE your hat.
I personally love reading diaries or text like that because of exactly what you said. It makes someone in history relatable or more “real”. Whereas a text about them is almost just a story to me!
Loving the new titles! I can’t wait to see all of the piecing come together 😀
thank you! I'm weirdly excited about all the piecing!
me too. Looking forward to it
wow i wish i had this video as a resource 10+ years ago.
Forgive me, I am more of a knitter/crocheter than a sewer. Your sweater is amazing!
Thank you! It is my design, but I didn't knit this one myself. I had planned....ages ago, that I was going to have them manufactured and it never got off the ground. This was one of the samples.
@@themodernmakermathewgnagy215 Great design!
@@themodernmakermathewgnagy215 I couldn't listen I was staring at the sweater... Too bad it was not manufactured! Beautiful design
Ten minutes for a complete draft. Well, there's a ways for me to get to that level.
I am wondering, you are drafting the front piece slightly overlapped on the back and mention you will have to piece those.
Where do you grab those pieces of fabric from, and at what point do you do the piecing?
Well spotted...I think I must have forgotten to re-shoot that part! I had worked on the video for a week and then lost the whole project to file corruption yesterday and had to start over. When I shot it the first time, all the pieces for the front and back skirt as well as the top of the side back of the front came out of the hollow of the back pattern.
ok! so i wasn't crazy when i was making my costume for a Shakespearean costume contest 😂 making the pattern and putting the dress together was a nightmare. 😭
Another amazing drafting session. I do wish you had shown how you pieced it. Also explained more about why the draft looks different from the drawing. Is part of that because of the angle bed watch the drafting versus the straight on view of the drawing? Or is it because the original person had much more sloped shoulders than you do?
It is different for two reasons...I am much larger than the original pattern was and the fabric width for which the layout is drawn is wider than what we can get today. Their cloth, for this layout, was 66 inches wide. Most wools that we can buy today are only 54-60 inches wide. It causes differences in the layouts.
@@themodernmakermathewgnagy215 (On my account rather than my husband's). That makes a lot of sense for the overlap. However I'm also looking at that angle of the neck to shoulder which looks like a smooth line in the drawing and is more of an acute angle in your draft. That's why I was wondering about "sloped shoulders."
(If you see comments from the Grendal account, that's going to be me. I have to spend some time with my feet up every day so he loans me his tablet to stave off boredom. And the thing is a "touch tablet" which means I can't "type" like I normally do. "Bed watch"? What an odd "autocorrect"! Grendal does watch your videos, however!)
@@junerussell6972 I think the appearance of the extra sloped shoulder is just the parallax from the camera angle. It is a pretty normal angle for the period.
@@themodernmakermathewgnagy215 I thought that might be the other reason for it looking different. Thanks for answering!
hi, thank you very much, i,m from argentina, i,m trying to understand the patterns directly from the book, but i feel like there is some measures that isn´t there =/.
Wow!