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13TH CENTURY TUNIC TUTORIAL
EASY WIDE-SLEEVE
GOWN TUTORIAL
BASIC EASY
LACED GOWN TUTORIAL
KIRTLE OR GOWN TUTORIAL
LADIES HOSE TUTORIAL
EASY
EARLY HOOD TUTORIAL
HOOD WITH SHOULDER
GORES TUTORIAL
BASIC SURCOTE TUTORIAL
SIDELESS
SURCOTE TUTORIAL
FORMAL SIDELESS
SURCOTE TUTORIAL
FILLET-
FRILLED, FOR USE WITH BARBETTE
FILLET-
PLEATED, FOR USE WITH BARBETTE
EYELET
MAKING TUTORIAL
BUTTONHOLE
MAKING TUTORIAL
CLOTH
BUTTON MAKING TUTORIAL
LUCET
CORD TUTORIAL
TASSEL
MAKING TUTORIAL
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Sewing
Tutorials
Basic D.I.Y. Clothing Patterns for Medieval Women

These pages are aimed
at basic patterning and some of these patterns are not
aimed at historical costumers or re-enactors. A couple of the
patterns are quite good for re-enactor ladies. They will give
quite usable and relatively accurate clothes for stallholders
or members of the public attending an event who want to have decent,
basic clothes which look right, avoid the pitfalls of fussy, unnecessarily
complicated commercial patterns.
They can be made in solid linen/cotton blends for stallholders
or made for nobles in brocaded fabrics or dupion silk. Even a
very basic pattern looks completely different when an upmarket
fabric is used, which is especially true of the Easy and Early
Tunic patterns.
- EASY
CHEATY T- TUNIC TUTORIAL - How to make a basic cheaty medieval
gown
- EASY
T-TUNIC TUTORAL - Mostly historically accurate
- EASY 13TH CENTURY
TUNIC TUTORIAL - How to make an overgown with short, wide
sleeves
- EASY WIDE-SLEEVE
GOWN TUTORIAL - How to make an overgown with really big
sleeves
- BASIC
EASY LACED GOWN TUTORIAL - Basic gown with front lacing.
- KIRTLE OR GOWN
TUTORIAL - How to make a medieval dress with buttons
- LADIES HOSE TUTORIAL
- How to make hose based on the London hose pattern
- EASY EARLY
HOOD TUTORIAL - How to make an early medieval hood
- HOOD WITH SHOULDER
GORES TUTORIAL - How to make a 14th or 15th century hood
- BASIC SURCOTE
TUTORIAL - How to make a surcote with 4 seams
- SIDELESS
SURCOTE TUTORIAL - How to make a sideless surcote with gores
- FORMAL
SIDELESS SURCOTE TUTORIAL - How to make a noblewoman's sideless
surcote
- FILLET-
FRILLED, FOR USE WITH BARBETTE - Manesse Codex style
- FILLET-
PLEATED, FOR USE WITH BARBETTE
- EYELET
MAKING TUTORIAL - How to make eyelets
- BUTTONHOLE
MAKING TUTORIAL - How to make buttonholes
- CLOTH BUTTON
MAKING TUTORIAL - How to make buttons to match your clothes
- LUCET CORD
TUTORIAL - Making lacing cord for your gown
- TASSEL MAKING
TUTORIAL - How to make tassels

IMPORTANT THINGS
TO NOTE!
These pattern cutting guides are not actual measurements.
ALL of these patterns will require a certain amount of taking
in and pinning once they have been cut.
This will give you a custom fit to make it fit your body shape.
Medieval people did it that way.
I use these pattern guides myself for things that I wear and they
only fit so nicely because I pin them in to fit after the basic
fabric has been cut. Otherwise, yes. They hang like a sack.

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