Tablet woven trim

[liadethornegge]

Taking the measuring tape to it today, I discover that the trim I bought from Sagadis at Double Wars was 2.70 metres long almost exactly. Times two makes for 5.4 metres of useable trim! Whee!

Maybe I must make that green wool into a bliaut now... hmm

Comments

Re: I don't buy the pleated on skirt theory

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

I don't follow what you mean by your first line there, I only mentioned you in relation to the pleated on skirt, and of it being made of silk (the lovely wedding dress you made out of the sari).

I wouldn't want to make a dress out of cotton in any case - it doesn't perform as nicely as does linen or wool :)

Re: I don't buy the pleated on skirt theory

[jauncourt.livejournal.com]

As far as the first line goes, I meant that more people seem to be using me as a source for the pleated-on skirt theory than for a gored skirt theory since I got married and posted info about that one dress I made. It's really quite odd.. :)

Anyway, I think you are correct in wanting to make your green wool into a gored bliaut.

Re: I don't buy the pleated on skirt theory

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Aah, well, if you keep being the first one to try try out new things, you'll keep hearing your name tossed around. Besides, the wedding bliaut is beautiful, and my next 12th Century garment is a long ways off yet.

The pleated on skirt theory

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I wasn't convinced about the pleated on theory either, but Janet Snyder (who BTW isn't an amateur but a scholar in this field) makes a good case for it in her article in Encountering medieval textiles and dress: objects, texts, images, edited by Koslin and Snyder (New York 2002).

And waist seams aren't an invention of the 15th century, but can be found in medieval art from the 1340s at least (Stella Mary Newton writes about them in Fashion in the age of the Black Prince). I would say that it is not more natural to have an evolutionary view of fashion, with constant progression than a cyclical, tight garments give way to loose garments and then to tight garments again. Since the fashion of the 13th century was very loose and flowing there was no _need_ for waist seams, even if they had invented that technique, which of course isn't proven yet.

Eva