It means, Just leave out the gores. MaggiRos
Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 ISBN 978-0-9818401-0-9 Available at http://elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback.html See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Saragrace Knauf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh thank you! That is very helpful - both the link to Marc's pages and the > ifurther information on construction. I am not sure I understand this > sentence: > > >When you make a centre-split tunic, you just miss out the front and back > gores. < > > Thank you for the pointers! > > > Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:38:00 +0000 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Gore training: was: What period/country etc is this > tunic? > > > > I think it has just fallen into a pleat because of the way he has hiked > > the tunic up into his belt, and the fact that the trim looks to be > > stiffer than the main fabric, so it folds rather than gathering or > > rippling. It might also have a fold in the trim from how he has kept it > > in the cupboard! > > > > The standard pattern for an early medieval tunic or dress (exactly the > > same except for length) is a four-gore t-tunic, like the "Nockert Type > > 1" on Marc Carlson's pages > > http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/tunics.html<http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/%7Emarc-carlson/cloth/tunics.html>(be > > warned, some of the links on these pages no longer work). When you make > > a centre-split tunic, you just miss out the front and back gores. And > > it's really hard to make the split hang straight. You need the side > > gores for movement, but when he stands still, the centre either crosses > > or hangs open. Tweaking it with the belt is the only option, and if the > > front goes right, the sides will go wrong. > > > > Jean > > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
