The red kirtle is all finished

I sewed the skirt to the bodice last week. I had to unpick the waist seam once after trying it on, since I saw that the bodice was too long. I'm not fond of unpicking hand sewn stitches.

For the closing of the wool edges at he front of the bodice I decided to follow liadethornegge's example and use hooks and eyes, though I suspect that pinning them together over the lacing was more common in hte 16th century.

The hem is made by sewing a ca 4 inch wide linen strip to it and then sew it down on the inside. Then I added a decorative strip of fulled black wool on the outside.



The light really was bad when this photo was taken, but I think that you can see a little how it looks on.