The problem is making the sleeve head match the armseye. You should be able to do this with a "flexible ruler and some graph paper. Someone who has taken the sleeves workshop at Costume College (which I did but have no useful notes from) might be able to elaborate on the process.
MaggiRos Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 Available at your favorite online bookseller See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Cherylyn Crill <[email protected]>wrote: > This is true, so I guess any historic sleeve tutorial would be appreciated > as well! > > --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Marjorie Wilser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Marjorie Wilser <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Sleeve Drafting (Information Guide) > To: "Historical Costume" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 9:15 AM > > > Admittedly not a 16th c specialist, but my impression is that sleeve > heads/shapes, etc. were way different than our current set-ins, and that > set-ins may be a much later construction. So a modern tutorial might not be > ideal. > > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
