Sida om första delen av mitt mästarprov

[frualeydis]

En sida om om den första delen av mitt mästarprov i Nordrikes skräddarskrå, en rekonstruktion av dräktfyndet från Uvdal grav 31, kan nu ses här på skräddarskråts sida.

(A page in swedish about the first of the three costumes that's the master's test in the tailor's guild of Nordrike. Unfortunately only in swedish, but with some pictures.)

Comments

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

Interessant! Gleder meg til å se hvordan det blir når du setter i det plisserte livstykket. Jeg har også en sånn veldig trang struthette. Det er et slit å trekke den over hodet, men den sitter fint på.

[estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com]

There's a master's test in Nordrike????

I wish I could read Swedish! I'd be interested in the qualifications to see if I could do such a test.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Well, I will be the first to do it, so it hasn't been around that long.

The requirements is to make three complete. They must be from periods and/or regions that are deemed to be sifficently differnet, so to show the broadnes sof ones competence. Both sexes alos have to be represented. One of the costumes must be completely hand sewn and in one of them the main/body-covering garment must be based on a preserved garment from the period.
It has to be well made and fit the wearer and you must give documentation.
You have one year to complete each costume, which will be judged by a three person committee + the officer for crafts in Nordrike.
So you would defintely be able to make it.

/Eva

[joyeuse60.livejournal.com]

Wow that sounds amazing.. wish we had something like that here.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Well, we don't have Laurels and such, so it's our answer to that. The guilds are unfortunately not very active these days, but there used to be a brewers', an armour makers', a blacksmiths', a mathematicians' and an embroderers' guild.

/Eva

[estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com]

I wish it worked that way with getting a Laurel in this Kingdom! It would make it so much more fair.

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful idea--it seems so much more academic in process than the usual Laurel track.

The only part of the criteria that make me wonder is the 3-7 pages of documentation to a piece, as some of my garments have been pieced from interpreted fragments (e.g. a sleeve, a neckline, facing, all from the same town and about the same time) and I might have trouble being so concise.

Do you get to choose your review panel?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Most people have a problem writing that much :) Nobody would stop you from writing more. But the guild does not demand museum class scientific re-creations.

The review board is put together by the Åltmäster, the administrative head of the guild, but suggestions from the applicants are always very welcome; for journeyman tests too of course. We're a small society, so it usually isn't hard to decide on the review board. Also, it doesn't have to be the same for all the three costume; in fact, with the spread over time/regions, it is unlikely that the same people will be on the board for all tests.

/Eva

[norayn.livejournal.com]

Is that pleating or smocking?? I'm just beginning to learn pleating.

Vrederun

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Urhhm..technical terms in another language can be confusing. I would not call it smocking, because to me smocking is when you sew over the pleats to make a pattern. Technically they are gathers, since they're done with gathering threads, but I don't know if you call them that when there are so many, even gathers. Gathered pleats is what I would call them, but as said, english is not my first language.

/Eva

[norayn.livejournal.com]

Thanks!