Thank you Heather - your figures 9 to 12 and 19 through to 21 are most useful. Your figure 14 is essentially what I have done with the linen tunic - but it would be too bulky on the wool I have. I may use number 10 - it looks like the running stich is designed to be seen from the face as Sunny said in an earlier post.
Jean I'd forgotton about the felting aspects - you are right we should wash wool only sparingly. Having said that I have a woollen cloak I only ever air and brush becaus it is simply too big to wash. On 03/12/05, Heather Rose Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Caroline wrote: > > > I have just finished the long seams on a new 10th/11th century > > woollen tunic > > for my husband. In the past I would now switch on the zig zag and > > do the > > bits that are likely to fray with that. I've only ever hand sewn > > hems before > > (what the public can't see etc) However, I have just spent a > > month doing > > run and fell seams on a linen tunic and it would be nice to finish the > > woolly one also by hand. > > > > I have had a look at the York and London stiches and the main > > option seems > > to be to flatten the seam and put a running or whip stich up the seam > > allowance. The running version would I think leave two parallel > > lines on > > the front of the garment (either side of the seam) and the whip > > stich might > > leave a series of diagonal lines on the front. > > > > Does anyone have any other techniques they know about or have > > tried. I > > don't think run and fell is particularly aproproate the seam would > > probably > > be rather bulky. > > I'm not sure if this will work with the sewing you've already done, > but when I was researching my article on seam types found on > surviving textiles <http://www.heatherrosejones.com/ > archaeologicalsewing/index.html> by far the "standard" wool seam > treatment from the iron age through the medieval period seems to have > been a fell-type seam. Often these seem to have been designed so > that there was never more than three layers of fabric at any one > point. But the diagrams at the article may give you some other > inspirations. > > If the wool is fairly springy or has much of a nap, I wouldn't expect > the stitches to show unless they're fairly big. On the other hand, > you could always treat any visible stitching as a deliberate design > element! > > Heather > > -- > Heather Rose Jones > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.heatherrosejones.com > LJ:hrj > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Caroline _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
