Leonfelder Schnittbuch

[frualeydis]

Has any of you tried the pattern for a woman's gown from the Leonfelder Schnittbuch?
Does it look weird with the non-pleated areas?

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[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/schnittbuch/page37.jpg

if it's this one, both me and marion has. I can't find the images of mine (which i never finished, but still intend to finish)

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

If you mean page 37, I threw together a rough mock-up-in-miniature, some years ago, to see if it worked and it looked OK doll size.

Teddy

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

What I wonder is if you put the pleats so that they cover also the pieces of the bodice which are attached to the skirt.

/Eva

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

I just did one box pleat at each seam. It sat right if I extended the bodice seam down a litle beyond the top of the pleat....

Come to think of it, I couldn't figure out how to get the bodice opening not to foul up the top of that pleat, so it wasn't a total success, but it looked fien with the bodice pinned closed... and I suppose the top of the pleat could attach to the bottom of a placket/panel behind the bodice opening or something.

Teddy

[pinque.livejournal.com]

It's been really interesting looking at the different interpretations people have made of it. Drea made the pleats really deep and placed them on the outside (photos in the GermanRenCostume yahoo group.)
I've got a few thoughts on what this gown is, but I need to nut through some more of the article I was sent (the section dealing with the words describing garments in the invoice book of a Cologne woman.) The pleats I find completely bizarre.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Yes, aren't they?. Anyhow, I plan to make a kirtle for something from Hans Weigel's Trachtenbuch. I haven't deicide what yet. I will not use this pattern totally, it seems like it would waste quite a lot of fabric. But I will keep the curved front.


/Eva

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

I've made this dress, it's this one

http://www.curiousfrau.com/Diaries/TailorOfEnnsGown.htm

I put the pleats to the inside, the oppopsite of Drea's intrepretation. I tried putting the pleats outside, but they just looked wrong!

There is a picture of a German girl in Deserp's costume book of 1589 that shows the back view of a German dress. There are two spots on either side back where the fabric looks to be pleated inside the dress, just like how the pleats turned out in my dress.

No, it doesn't look wierd with the non-pleated areas as long as you wear an apron. Its a great work dress, and work dresses need aprons.

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

nods. I actually cartridge pleated tehm, but it doesn't look too good to be honest, it's not enough fabric to look like the reference material I found.

[silverstah.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had never seen that - thanks for posting the link!