Margurie, I need your help
Aug. 23rd, 2004 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisHaving decided that my green bliaut will be part of my masterpiece in the tailor's guild in Nordrike and totally hand sewn I can't start on it before my application is approved. But I still want a new bliaut for Fru Ragnhild's Collegium in the beginning of september. And I have this lovely checked fabric in light yellow with a grid of brown forming diagonal checks (I hope I make the pattern clear). It's a soft and heavy rayon brocade that used to be a set of curtains and that I have hoarded since 1993, intending to make a bliaut from it.
Well now is the time, but how the hell do I cut the checked fabric? In my memory your "eyesore" bliaut also has checks so I thought you might know. The easiest way is of course to make it like you made your wedding bliaut, but the very few checked bliauts (maybe only one) I've seen all seem to be made without waist seam and pleated skirt. It is also the most logical since a pleated skirt would obscure the pattern too much. So, considering fabric widths in the period I would assume it was cut with gores set in a straight piece, like the the Kragelund tunic. Probably with more gores though since that was the fashionable thing. But how do you do to make the checked pattern look good? It can't match of course, since the sides of the gores are on the bias, but are there any tricks?
I'm thankful for suggestions from all of you of course.
Maja is unhappy, so I have to stop writing now.
Well now is the time, but how the hell do I cut the checked fabric? In my memory your "eyesore" bliaut also has checks so I thought you might know. The easiest way is of course to make it like you made your wedding bliaut, but the very few checked bliauts (maybe only one) I've seen all seem to be made without waist seam and pleated skirt. It is also the most logical since a pleated skirt would obscure the pattern too much. So, considering fabric widths in the period I would assume it was cut with gores set in a straight piece, like the the Kragelund tunic. Probably with more gores though since that was the fashionable thing. But how do you do to make the checked pattern look good? It can't match of course, since the sides of the gores are on the bias, but are there any tricks?
I'm thankful for suggestions from all of you of course.
Maja is unhappy, so I have to stop writing now.
