If your fabric is finished, your seam does not have to be.
In other words, if the fabric doesn't fray. But it's a finishing type that you
can pretty much only get on wool--or polyester bathrobe fleece (loved that
bathrobe for years . . .).
If your as-accurate-as-you-can-make-it Anglo-Saxon costume has a linen part or
parts, I'll bet the edges are finished, whether by selvedges, run & fell seams,
hemmed, or any of the variants.
And if you chose to enter some sort of costume contest, and you Document that
this type of seam allowance used in this period and this context is 'nothing',
then you get points, at least for documentation.
Ann in CT
another of the Historical judges for CC27
fwiw
--- Glenda Robinson wrote:
> You wrote:
>
> --The worst thing we judges saw, in Workmanship, was unfinished raw edges
> with loose threads fraying out of them. I think about half of what we
> saw had this problem, and it didn't gain anybody points.
>
> Of course, there are periods where a raw edge is more authentic than
> finished edges. My 7th century Anglo-Saxon outfit is made that way
> deliberately. The cloth is a really hardy diamond twill, the seams are
> just laid over each other and stitched with the fabric's wool
> (which would have been left over from the fabrication), both inside and
> outside. A lot of 12-13th century garments were made without finished
> edges too.
>
> Glenda
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