Viking women's dress - final part
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frualeydisHere's the translation for the last viking women's pattern at Historiska varldar.
"Principskiss rynkveckad sark":Schematic drawing of goffered shift
Scale 1:10
"The goffered (gathered and pressed) shift consists of seven different large pieces of fabric. They are sewn together and then gathered with gathering stitches (like tiny cartridge pleating), pulled tightly together and put in hot water to permanent the creases. When it is thoroughly dried you take away the gathering threads. (My comments: the rows of gathering stitches should have ca 5 cm between them. The drying process will take several days.)
Sew the gores to the sides of the main piece. Sew the sleeves together and sew them to the body of the shift. Remember that the shift has to be very wide to be goffered since the pleats take away c. one third of the garment's width. We have added a yoke over the shoulders to make the shift fit better. There is no archaeological evidence for this."
The text on the pattern:
"Arm"=sleeve. Cut two.
"Kil"= Gores, there should be four of them in all
Bakstycke"=back piece
"Framstycke"=front piece
"Det har oket..."=This yoke was added to make the shift fall nicely over the shoulders. We don't know how these shifts were constructed in the viking age.
"Den har typen av kilar..."= There are two gores of this type in each side. We have only drawn one pair.
Well, that was the pattern.
There is an article by Inga Hagg, "Viking women's dress at Birka : a reconstruction by archaeological methods" in the excellent book Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe ed. N.B. Harte and K.G. Ponting, London 1983, which discusses the goffered shift in more detail.
"Principskiss rynkveckad sark":Schematic drawing of goffered shift
Scale 1:10
"The goffered (gathered and pressed) shift consists of seven different large pieces of fabric. They are sewn together and then gathered with gathering stitches (like tiny cartridge pleating), pulled tightly together and put in hot water to permanent the creases. When it is thoroughly dried you take away the gathering threads. (My comments: the rows of gathering stitches should have ca 5 cm between them. The drying process will take several days.)
Sew the gores to the sides of the main piece. Sew the sleeves together and sew them to the body of the shift. Remember that the shift has to be very wide to be goffered since the pleats take away c. one third of the garment's width. We have added a yoke over the shoulders to make the shift fit better. There is no archaeological evidence for this."
The text on the pattern:
"Arm"=sleeve. Cut two.
"Kil"= Gores, there should be four of them in all
Bakstycke"=back piece
"Framstycke"=front piece
"Det har oket..."=This yoke was added to make the shift fall nicely over the shoulders. We don't know how these shifts were constructed in the viking age.
"Den har typen av kilar..."= There are two gores of this type in each side. We have only drawn one pair.
Well, that was the pattern.
There is an article by Inga Hagg, "Viking women's dress at Birka : a reconstruction by archaeological methods" in the excellent book Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe ed. N.B. Harte and K.G. Ponting, London 1983, which discusses the goffered shift in more detail.
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