Quick&Dirty

Quick&Dirty Tunic Construction

Here’s my instructions for assembling a tunic with flat-felled seams. As with most hands-on things, this works much better in person. Please feel free to email me if you have questions or if I’m unclear. Sylvie (sylvie@fibergeek.com)

Quick&Dirty

Quick&Dirty Peri-oid tunic

This is my pattern for tunics, chemise, dresses. Whatever. Medevial-oid and tons better than a T-tunic or some silly “trace around your t-shirt patterns”. Sometimes called an R-tunic or “rectangular tunic.” This pattern uses gussets and gores. Love love love gussets and gores. I started with a pattern from a period garment that placed a gore in the middle of…

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SCA

Written Word

Irish 1100 tale.. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1100derga.html 1400 wills: http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Lbth/Lbthbook23.htm

Garb/Clothing

Byzantine

http://www.gryph.com/byzantine/dress.htm A Byzantine Shirt from Manazan Caves, Turkey (8th century AD) (link)

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Glass Beads

http://www.sgb-midatlantic.org/how-tos.html http://www.corinabeads.com/ Scadian with sources: http://www.timelessbeads.com/

Garb/Clothing

Viking Woman

underdress: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~hmg/lrp/kostyme/viking/v-k-underkjole.html food: http://www.sca.org.au/st_florians/university/library/articles-howtos/9-12C_Norse_Food_AR070604.htm The account of the Hedeby harbour finds has only been published in German [1]. The following article is an annotated summary of Inga Hägg’s report on the Trägerrock. The report was translated by Rachel Kellett, and the summary written by Shelagh Lewins. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/shelagh.lewins/shelagh/Hedeby_apron/Hedeby_apron.htm Overview of apron suppositions: http://www.dragonbear.com/text/VikingApronDress.doc

String

Thread Numbering

what does 60/2, 20/3 etc mean? http://www.q7design.demon.co.uk/lacenotes/sizes/threads.html