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callistotoniAfter the barn today my throat started feeling worse, so I decided the best thing was to go straight home. Being home, I decided to tackle something I'd been thinking of making for J/S, namely, the Norlund (or Herjolfsnes) No. 63 gown/tunic/whatchamacallit (see http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~Marc-Carlson/cloth/herjol63.html ; also depicted in the Woven Into The Earth book.)
Yes, I know historicenterprises sells these, but I wanted to figure it out for myself as a mental exercise and I don't have any money anyway. Per the mental exercise part, I thought it would be interesting to try to recreate what I saw without imposing what I *expect* to see as a modern or 16th C costumer, albeit moderated by common sense/logic.
I got a pattern for the body relatively easily, although I did have a few false starts.
The bigger challenge was/is the sleeves. My personal bugbear today was whether the main seam is at the top (opposite the underarm), or whether it is towards the back, more like your classic suit-like-seam-half-way-the-back-following-to-elbow-etc sleeve. It almost looks like that gore at the top back sorta pushes the main seam back towards the center back, but then the line mores towards the "top" going towards the elbow and wrist. When I started it looks like it was the former, and that was being weird enough that I wasn't being able to draft it. Now I think it might be more to the back. But, I have to say, when you look at the picture of the garment in Woven Into The Earth it really looks like it's on top. Still working on it; decided to let it sit overnight and see if my brain can see it better tomorrow.
Anyone else ever do this?
Oh, and on another 14th C front, I see that there's a first and a second edition of one of the Greenwood Press's Daily Life series, Daily Life in Chaucer's England. The first edition is by Jeffrey L Singman, the same author as for Daily Life in Elizabethan England (which I own and have found quite useful). The second edition has two different authors. Does anyone own these? Do you know what the difference is? I can pick up a first ed. for between $10-20 from amazon.com vendors, but the second edition is more like $40-50. Oh, and I was happy to be reminded that the Decameron is 14th C. Story telling! Finally I've found something "salon like" about the 14th C. :-)
Yes, I know historicenterprises sells these, but I wanted to figure it out for myself as a mental exercise and I don't have any money anyway. Per the mental exercise part, I thought it would be interesting to try to recreate what I saw without imposing what I *expect* to see as a modern or 16th C costumer, albeit moderated by common sense/logic.
I got a pattern for the body relatively easily, although I did have a few false starts.
The bigger challenge was/is the sleeves. My personal bugbear today was whether the main seam is at the top (opposite the underarm), or whether it is towards the back, more like your classic suit-like-seam-half-way-the-back-following-to-elbow-etc sleeve. It almost looks like that gore at the top back sorta pushes the main seam back towards the center back, but then the line mores towards the "top" going towards the elbow and wrist. When I started it looks like it was the former, and that was being weird enough that I wasn't being able to draft it. Now I think it might be more to the back. But, I have to say, when you look at the picture of the garment in Woven Into The Earth it really looks like it's on top. Still working on it; decided to let it sit overnight and see if my brain can see it better tomorrow.
Anyone else ever do this?
Oh, and on another 14th C front, I see that there's a first and a second edition of one of the Greenwood Press's Daily Life series, Daily Life in Chaucer's England. The first edition is by Jeffrey L Singman, the same author as for Daily Life in Elizabethan England (which I own and have found quite useful). The second edition has two different authors. Does anyone own these? Do you know what the difference is? I can pick up a first ed. for between $10-20 from amazon.com vendors, but the second edition is more like $40-50. Oh, and I was happy to be reminded that the Decameron is 14th C. Story telling! Finally I've found something "salon like" about the 14th C. :-)
