Creating A Medieval Fantasy Gown Without a Pattern: The Everyday Bliaut Part 1
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2022
- In this latest video, I pattern and assemble a 12th-century gown, known as a bliaut. My little twist was making this a bit more versatile by making the big, dramatic sleeves removable. For once, the romantic and fantastical medieval costumes we see in many films and a lot of artwork is actually pretty accurate.
Here are some helpful links for more information~
Helpful blog posts with art sources:
adamselindisdress.wordpress.c...
scasewinghowtomakeabliaut.wor...
Woad dyeing: designsfromtime.tumblr.com/po...
My 14th-century kirtle and body block patterning: • I Drafted my own Medie...
Medieval Headwear: • Did Medieval Women Wor...
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If you want to see how I finished dressing this gown up to be more fitting of a 12th century noblewomen, please see this follow-up: ua-cam.com/video/MKc8Et2nd4U/v-deo.html
The big sleeve thing always reminds me of Marilla and Anne. Completely different time period, but her comment, "I hadn't any material to waste on puffed sleeves" has a very similar ring to what non-wealthy medieval sewist would have said. The colour on this dress is wonderful and making it modular for wearing in different settings is brilliant. Can't wait to see how you zhuzh it up. Take care.
Yes! The 19tu century loved a big sleeve too, but it was definitely a fashion statement, rather than a practical choice.
I am eagerly waiting for the post to bring me a few necessary items to finish this up!
This video would have been so helpful about a week ago when I was trying to make basically the same dress! I still have the sleeves though, so that'll be super helpful. Great video, beautiful dress, can't wait to see what else you do to it!
If you're doing the sleeves permanently attached, you can definitely simplify this process too!
I'm excited to finish it up and start wearing it ☺️
For your neckline issues - You don't have particularly unusual shoulders. What you do have is a large bust, and I think what's going on is you essentially have an (unsewn) dart coming from the neckline to provide the extra fabric. It's going to be tricky to get a tight fit over the (perfectly normal) 3D shape of your body with a 2D piece of fabric and no darts, folds, or gaping at all. If you look back at your mockup there were folds at the side seam and the neckline pointing to your bust - proto-darts, essentially. I don't know how this problem was solved historically, but definitely don't blame your body for a problem that's inherent to all of clothing design.
With styles from this era, there is no evidence of darting, so I actually think my best bet is to take more fabric out of the sides and adjust the angle of the shoulders for the next similarly cut dress.
I say weird, but more accurately, they are not proportional or completely even with each other. In modern clothing as well, I often flash my bra straps because nothing stays up on my shoulders. There are adjustments for this, but I'm still figuring my shoulders out. They are a strange conundrum to me. Not a negative, as no human body is perfectly symmetrical or proportionate-- this is just one of my particular quirks to work around and I'm still learning and figuring things out along the way since I have no formal training.
In modern clothes you do a FBA ( full bust adjustment) but I have found in historical garb, if I make the back narrower and shift the width to the front that helps.
You might have a dropped shoulder, which is more common than you think. It makes neck lines wonky, because one shoulder is lower than the other. It made a huge difference in my fitting of clothes when I realized that about myself. I solve it in contemporary clothing with a small shoulder pad.
This was a really helpful video, I am in the process of venturing into the medieval period.
It is very possible! I noticed some asymmetries about myself before when patterning, so I really need to transfer them to a dress form one of these days...
I used to feel really intimated about the body drafting for medieval gowns, but after I did my first 14th century front lace one, I realized that once you have that pattern block, it's easy to adapt it to different styles like this one!
oh this is glorious, I love it!
one weird thing that helped me- if i cut the shoulders too square they fall off of me no matter how reasonable the neckline, and I've fixed that a couple times by unpicking the shoulder seam and cutting it to slope more. I don't understand it.
NOT telling you to unpick anything obviously, goodness, just trying to say that even on the literal same neckline it somehow works for me.
Haha, yeah, I definitely have to do a whole shoulder workshop at some point. I thought these would be angled enough to stay up and not give that gaping I'm the front, but still they slip 🤷♀️
Upstate New York, eh. What region? I'm in the Rochester/Finger Lakes region.
Not too close to you, if you're in Rochester, sadly!
@@OdessaDenby Ahh, but closer than most other CosTubers. I've lived in the Finger Lakes region and the Southern Tier (Elmira-Corning) most of my life.