Picture update time
Jun. 8th, 2007 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stellar_muddleSo, victorian chemise is nearly done - just needs the length shortened, hemmed and a button or two added to the front for fastening. A little large around the shoulders which means that it needs to be fastened at the front with a bit of overlap to get it to sit right, but nothing that wont work with a button or two. Pictures here and the next 2 photos. Corset is one from Gallery Serpentine - a bit long to go with the outfit, so will try and make a corset from the same pattern set at some point.. later.
So, eyeing up the next project*... (or proof that Z can actually sew stuff other than canvas and leather... just don't look too closely at the stitch size**)
Dug out the Svante Sture doublet that Z started way back in '95 (See here and the next photo for his started shoulder piece). There is a lot of very nice black velvet, apple green silk (colour not shown well in photo) and cream raw silk (lining!) that really shouldn't be wasted. Torso length is fine on me, but arms are too large and it is a little wide. But the shoulder bits are usable and while things are cut out, should be able to cut pieces down. May be some interesting issues round the arm holes though. Still too small for Z though. So, will sit down and transfer the pattern onto spare fabric, fit to me, recut the pieces and see how things go. After all, the shirt to go underneath I finished last year...
* Following the current rule of finish what has been started - nothing new or for which I need to go out and buy materials. Does it count if the trim has been cut out (LOTS of woollen strips with a woven in pattern salvaged from a hidious skirt a couple years back), but nothing else has been done - trim for a Viking jacket perhaps... It is not like we don't have the rest of the fabric...
**More of Z's current sewing can be seen here with him attaching chinese brocade silk as a (high status) cuff decoration on one of his tunics. (His call based on Complete Anachronist #64 Scandanavian Textiles, talking about appliqueed silk samite from Birka and Oseberg burials pg 11).
Would put in pictures, rather than just link, but will be kind to your bandwidth. Besides, I should get on with lunch and some maths revision... and after that, actually finish the chemise, rather than just posting about it.
So, eyeing up the next project*... (or proof that Z can actually sew stuff other than canvas and leather... just don't look too closely at the stitch size**)
Dug out the Svante Sture doublet that Z started way back in '95 (See here and the next photo for his started shoulder piece). There is a lot of very nice black velvet, apple green silk (colour not shown well in photo) and cream raw silk (lining!) that really shouldn't be wasted. Torso length is fine on me, but arms are too large and it is a little wide. But the shoulder bits are usable and while things are cut out, should be able to cut pieces down. May be some interesting issues round the arm holes though. Still too small for Z though. So, will sit down and transfer the pattern onto spare fabric, fit to me, recut the pieces and see how things go. After all, the shirt to go underneath I finished last year...
* Following the current rule of finish what has been started - nothing new or for which I need to go out and buy materials. Does it count if the trim has been cut out (LOTS of woollen strips with a woven in pattern salvaged from a hidious skirt a couple years back), but nothing else has been done - trim for a Viking jacket perhaps... It is not like we don't have the rest of the fabric...
**More of Z's current sewing can be seen here with him attaching chinese brocade silk as a (high status) cuff decoration on one of his tunics. (His call based on Complete Anachronist #64 Scandanavian Textiles, talking about appliqueed silk samite from Birka and Oseberg burials pg 11).
Would put in pictures, rather than just link, but will be kind to your bandwidth. Besides, I should get on with lunch and some maths revision... and after that, actually finish the chemise, rather than just posting about it.
