Not being familiar with this era, would it be correct to leave a slit at the bottom sides,(for ease of walking), if not enough fabric was available for the gores? What about an over gown, the sleeveless kind with overlarge armholes?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:08 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] minimum yardage for 14/15th century kirtle I think we're a similar size & height, so some of the layouts that I use might help: http://www.formfunction.org/temp/4-gore1.gif http://www.formfunction.org/temp/4-gore2.gif http://www.formfunction.org/temp/4-gore3.gif http://www.formfunction.org/temp/4-gore4.gif http://www.formfunction.org/temp/4-gore5.gif Sorry for the poor image quality; my scanner just did not want to see the grid! These are basically to scale, give or take about an inch, but should not be scaled up exactly or used as patterns. The last is (obviously) not a 4-panel, but I threw it in anyway; it's a mid-late 15thC it's-not-a-princess-seam gown. (SL-sleeve, SLG=sleeve gore, BG=back gore, SG=side gore, FS=front gore; I assumed 30" fabric width for each. 60" garment length is conveniently top-of-the-shoes for me at ~5'10.") All of these are based on draped patterns rather than commercial ones, but they all take under 4 yds of fabric. When (as is usually the case) the gores have one on-grain edge and one bias edge, the on-grain edge should go towards the front. Where not marked otherwise, the top edge is the fold edge. I'm too lazy to hunt the diagrams up now, but when you have fabric twice your desired length or a tad more, you might want to try folding the fabric widthwise rather than lengthwise; you can get a lot more out of it that way. -E "cut your cote to fit your cloth" House _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
