Step-by-Step: Patterning a Simple Medieval Tunic or Gown Using Your Measurements
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- Updated version! This is the first video in a planned series. The series is designed to introduce people who are new to medieval sewing -- or new to sewing at all! -- to a simple approach to making your own clothing in medieval style. This is followed by the "how to sew it" video: • Step-by-Step: Sew Your...
Simple geometric shapes are combined in a style known as "rectangular construction", which is most suitable for periods from about 400-500CE until 1350CE in a variety of Eurasian cultures. After 1350CE, curved seams and complex shapes became more common (at least among the very wealthy and very fashionable!).
This clothing is great as a starting point for SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) garb, LARP character costumes, and Renaissance Faire outfits.
This video is part of a series:
• Sewing Medieval Clothi...
The series includes:
Part 1: Step-by-Step: Patterning a Simple Medieval Tunic or Gown Using Your Measurements
Part 2: Step-by-Step: Sew Your Simple Medieval Tunic or Gown
Part 3: Fashionable Medieval Clothing: Variations on the Basic Tunic/Gown
Part 4: Fashionable Medieval Clothing: Design a Layered Style
Part 5: Fashionable Medieval Clothing: Easy-to-Sew Accessories
...and assorted shorts that demonstrate useful skills
Timeline:
0:00 Introduction to rectangular construction
2:56 Characteristics of the style
5:40 Pattern-making introduction
7:09 Body rectangles
9:08 Sleeve pieces
11:45 Godets and gussets
16:38 Contrasting neck facing
18:31 Double-check the pattern
19:19 Getting ready to sew
20:07 Fabric selection and preparation
25:45 Get to know your sewing machine - Jak na to + styl
I've been sewing for 4 decades and doing historical costuming for almost as long but this is my first foray into earlier than the 1600s. I still learned a lot from this tutorial. You are an outstanding teacher. Thank you!
Thank you!! I think this is one of the nicest compliments I've gotten! -- It means so much that my small offering could be of some use to an experienced sewist.
This is the most useful of the 50 or so videos I've recently watched on this subject. Great work! Thanks!
Thank you SO MUCH for your kind words! I hope your sewing adventures bring you joy.
@@ravenswatchfarm Thanks and you're welcome.
I've got linen and hemp sheets for some tunics/gowns/chemises, and some cotton sheets for preliminary mockups.
I've also purchased a beautiful reversable wool blanket, with a wide stripe at each end. Plan to save it for after I have more experience. Have been looking for a pattern that accounts for matching stripes at the bottom. Considering folding blanket in half and making a one-piece seamed up the sides. Have you seen anything like that? If there a reason not to use such a pattern? Is there a video you can point me to? (These questions are also for any other viewers/commenters who might have experience with this sort of blanket project.)
Thanks again and I look forward to binging all your videos.
@@OffRampTourist Although others will certainly have other ideas, I think of blanket-weight wool as outerwear. What you are asking about would be called a "peplos", especially look at the Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, or Celtic tradition, but it'll only use some of your fabric. Me, I'd see how much mileage I could get out of that blanket. The first thing I'd do is set aside enough for a nice rectangular cloak (every culture). Minimum size is top of your head to your knees (or floor) tall x doubled over elbow-to-elbow wide... a size which will also work as a peplos. Or go even bigger. A contrast stripe on one of the edges would be quite striking. You can cut a head-to-knee side a bit long and pick out and inch or two of fringe, mostly seen in cloaks NOT the peplos. (My accessories video shows several ways to pin/style this garment.) After that, grab my fabulous layers video and focus on these ideas: The tabard/zapona certainly would be easy to cut and wear as a mid-layer! For female presenting, consider the "Viking" apron-dress-- some of those patterns would easily lend themselves to a contrast lower hem. Or any sort of a rectangular-construction jacket, such as a caftan/kaftan, can be cut to put the stripe on the lower edge of the rectangular body panels. You'll need to cut the gores to match, but you can use the triangular/trapezoidal "waste" between those for your sleeves. Weird shaped scraps can be recycled for hat pieces. It'll take some creative layout.... but you might be able to get a midlayer + a cloak/peplos + a hat out of your blanket.
@@ravenswatchfarm Wow! You've given me a lot to consider. I didn't expect such a speedy and detailed response. I'm going to do the research, view the rest of your videos, and make several cotton/linen/hemp innerwear items before I tackle the pink/gold blanket project(s) but I know it's going to be even better than I originally thought, for having your input.
I wish I could show a photo here. It's so pretty and it's 94” x 65” worth of potential is almost intimidating. I definitely plan to get the most out of it I can. (If there are long narrow scraps I hope to make leg wraps to match.)
this is your first vid damn! Way more professional than I ever would have expected for a first vid. thank you for the tutorial
You are too kind. I am always my own worst critic, and I learned a lot about how to better set up my cameras & microphone in the future. But we all start learning somewhere, right? ;)
I am in the process of giving this a go, and for the sake of any other folks with wide shoulders, double check the body measurement against your shoulders to make sure you can actually put the thing on... I may or may not have had to get a new piece of fabric to rectify that mistake. 😄 I'm sure I can piece some side panels in in the future, but my first complete one will have a proper body piece.
I hadn't come across this yet, but when I think about it... I can imagine how it could happen! Every body is different, which is half the fun of tailoring. I'll figure out if I can add a warning about this. (CZcams is awful about allowing edits.) Thank you for teaching me and helping others!
Just to be clear; the vast majority of commercial Bamboo fabrics are viscose/rayon fabrics :)
Indeed. We can *hope* that bamboo-based cellulose fabric is made of longer pieces of individual fiber (it is, at least, *possible* with bamboo), but... there is no certainty. It could be made from the mooshy inner bits of the bamboo and not the strong linear parts. Much like "silk" that flame-tests as polyester, so much fabric is "buyer beware." Sadness. :(
Have been looking everywhere for a good, comprehensive tunic tutorial and this is incredible. I'm new to sewing but you make this seem so doable! Really appreciate the hard work you put in to this series. 🙏🏻
Thank you❤
that helps a lot🎉🎉🎉
My depth perception challenged mind thanks you SO MUCH for this well-paced, in depth series.
It's time to move forward from the T shirt pattern!!
I wish you much success! I'm glad this helped.
So comprehensive! Thank you.
This is such valuable information. Thank you for posting it! ❤
I'm so happy that other people are interested in my "geek". :D
So informative! Excellent tutorial, thanks for explaining everything so effectively and with diagrams!
This is so incredibly helpful! Thank you.
This is so helpful!
Thank you! That was my goal :)
I'm looking at making one for my daughter - any guide on the proportions to add for ease and the size of the gusset? She's one so it will be small.
I would skip the gusset entirely and just make the top of the sleeve a bit generous in width. A couple inches of ease in the body would be comfortably loose-- ease disappears faster than you expect. But I'd plan ahead for room to grow! You could cut 4-6" of body ease-- just cut the body as an oversized A-line (don't piece the skirt) -- and then take the extra out in big (1+") side seams. Lightly tack those down to manage bulk. Skipping the gussets and godets --> simplifies letting it out later. You can also take an extra wide lower hem and give yourself up to 4" of future length. Room to grow = less sewing for a busy mom!
@@ravenswatchfarm thank you that's fabulous advice. Your video is amazing and I can't wait to have us in matching outfits for a fair next month!