Zuzana, I've made a pourpoint for my husband based on the Charles de Blois model. It has been used successfully in SCA combat for a number of years. I've made several forms of fabric armor over the years and have usually added two inches all around to the pattern, flat quilted all the layers, and then fit it back on the person. Even for the more fitted Charles de Blois poupoint this seemed to work.
On thing that helped in making the pattern or block was to use very heavy fabric. I used some thick flannel. It helped to know where wrinkles would occur as I could put less batting there. BTW even if you make the rest the garment not particularly tight it really helps to still make it fitted through the hips. It looks better and works better with armor but also allows the shoulders to do what they were designed to do - be very flexible. I'm going to need to make another one of these soon. The fabric I chose has not worn well. A friend is making a pourpoint by stuffing carded wool into tubes sewn into the fabric. The thing stands on it's own. I can't wait to see how this will work for him. On the other hand the 3-D soft sculpture upholstery method sound facinating too. Cheers, Mary > I'm going to make a pourpoint inspired by the > Charles de Blois pourpoint, fitted, but not as much > as the extant garment, and of a slightly thicker > material and padding. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
