On Oct 21, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Sunshine Buchler wrote: >> What are people's thoughts on the garments depicted in the early 14th c. >> Manesse >> Codex that have diagonal striped designs? >> >> Woven as diagonal stripes? Print? Woven as straight-grain stripes and cut >> on >> the bias? Symbolic interpretation of armorial >> >> designs not intending to represent actual garments? Some other option? > > I have a sligthly different possible option: If you cut the stripes on the > diagonal and sew them together into a new diagnoally striped piece of fabric, > then you haven't changed the grain of the fabric when you go to cut out the > garment. I believe Master Vyncent atte Wodegate did this with a later period > man's cotehardie, and I remember him saying that it didn't take much more > fabric > then a normally constructed cotehardie would. (Pictures of it are in the > Photos > section of the aotc Yahoo group).
*grin* Don't need pictures -- I see it in person on a regular basis. But my current interest in this topic came out of a particular piece of striped fabric, so the hypothesis of "pieced and straight-grain" ends up falling in the "don't use this fabric for this garment" category. Heather _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
