I finished my new smock

[frualeydis]

My new smock, made after one of the Sture shirts, is finally finished. The actual smock has been finished since the beginning of January but I needed to make ties with fingerloop-braiding from thin linen thread too. But now all that remains is to starch and form the ruffles around neck and wrists, and for that I need to buy myself a curling iron. You see, instead of the box-pleat method found on for example the Elizabethan Costuming Page I just gathered them, just like on the shirts and on the preserved ruffs Janet Arnold examined and wrote about in Waffen und Kostümkunde and then they need some help to be formed into neat figure-eights.

The ruffles are decorated with simple drawn thread work. Modern linens seldom has neat enough selvedges to be used as they are - it's because they don't use a continuous thread but cut the thread at every edge. Since I had mainly worked with hand woven linen the last years I had forgotten about that. Well, since I was going to have to hem the edges anyway I decided to add a little decoration at the same time.

Comments

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very nice indeed. The ties look fantastic as well, which method did you use to make them? How many loops?

[(Anonymous)]

7 loops and 35/2 linen thread.

/Eva