[Bryn-gwlad] Candlemas costume planning

[Sunny Briscoe]

I can bring the dress out to PiP next week, but the rest will take a bit as
it's currently in storage.

Elisabetta


On 10/5/07, Patrick R <tex_yankee2004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> WOW I am impressed (even if you didn't raise the sheep) and would love to
> see your work one day, so I would know what you mean.
>
> Thanks
> Dante
>
> *Sunny Briscoe <sunnyday72 at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> The closest I have is a completely hand sewn outfit which will include
> when I am finished a dress, sleeves, camicia (shift), cuffia (cap), mutande
> (underpants), and hose (I can't remember the Italian word for those - darn
> allergies are frying my brain).
>
> All of the materials used in this outfit are reasonably close to period.
> Wool for the dress, flax linen for the linings and undergarments, hemp linen
> and cord for stiffening, and linen thread for sewing.  But, I bought it all
> in a store and used modern dyes to dye the wool.
>
> On top of that, I did not grow my own linen from reverse engineered flax
> seeds, or raise my period breed of sheep with some period form of whatever
> it was that sheep ate back then.  I didn't collect and process madder to dye
> the fabric, or any of the other things that are required for the outfit.
>
> Yes, I am being pedantic, but to make a point.  We can never have truly
> authentic reproductions of period garments, because those things no longer
> exist, or there is no data on what did exist, or no one person would have
> done all of those steps, etc...  My outfit close to period in that I have
> used period-like materials and put them together in a period like manner.
> The degree of authenticity really depends on who is judging my outfit at any
> given moment.
>
> I don't normally completely hand-sew anything.  I just don't have the time
> to devote to it.  I am trying to make all of my clothes so that there are no
> visible machine stitches, that are cut in a period manner, and that all of
> my cheats are as invisible as possible.
>
> On 10/5/07, Patrick R <tex_yankee2004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just curious, can any of us say our clothing is truely period? I have no
> > idea when sewing machines were invented and if they were around does anyone
> > use what would have been period?
> >
> > Dante
> >
> > Be afraid when I am bored I am curious
> >
> > **
> >
>
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