I am looking at some very old patterns I got from the City of Augsburg
when they were celebrating their 2000 anniversary. They decided to have
people in historic costume and since they had some 16th century pieces
laying around (!!!!) they used them to make male and female pattern.
There is a nice one for a cartridge pleated skirt on one of the gowns,
but they just say to adjust the hem from the waist seam (?) Since this
is one of those with bands of different fabric trimming the skirt, I
think they mean to sew the bands to the straight fabric, then somehow
gather it at the waist so the hem is right.
Has anyone done this? How?
Put the fabric around your waist, belt, and adjust?
How do you manage those pleats? Straight pleating wouldn't be as
hard, but these are definitely cartridge type. The skirts I saw on
older women wearing "folk costume" had pleats like this with the same
trim pattern but shorter. I realize that "folk costumes" even if they
look like they should be derived from period, aren't.
Thoughts?
Regina Romsey
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