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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.)

I made a hood for my Uvdal outfit today. Hand sewed it of course. And It didn't turn out right; it's too long in the "neck".So I guess I have to cut out and hand sew a new one. I have also started locking the pleats on the back panel. It is very boring.

Modern sewing projects, done on machine, suddenly seem very appealing.

Current Mood: bored

I turned off the computer. I went to the shop and to the playground outside our house with Maja. We baked a gooseberry and raspberry pie. And Rickard came home early, just when the pie was finished.
Thanks to Poirot on the telly I have also sewed seventeen rows of gathering stitches, 128 cm long each; only five to go.

Current Mood: content

I have gathered one front piece and am currently "locking" the pleats with backstitches. This was done on another of the Uvdal finds. The gathering threads will be removed afterwards, since they are too visible.

The fininished bodice. It really looks like some kind of weird bolero with ties now. It needs to be ironed and the sleeves hemmed. I can't hem the strips until I've attached the skirt.

Current Mood: tired

I thought that you might want to see a picture of the Uvdal 31 gown. This is a sketch I made after Marianne Vedeler's drawings in her dissertation, where she deals with the find. Her drawings are copyrighted of course, so I made my own. Also, the sketch of her interpretation of the gown in the book is put on a very 13th century-inspired gothic figure and I thought it would be nice to have a drawing of it with normal proportions.

The dress is carbon-dated to the late 14th century and as you can see, it a)differs from what is seen in period art and b)reminds of the pleated gowns found in Herjolfsnes (the "stripes" below the overbust seam are gathered pleats). This drawing of course can't replace the information in her text, but since it's in norwegian it's of little use to most of you anyway.

Despite being extremely tired, tired enough that I had to take a nap before dinner, as sure sign of much rheumatic activity in the body, I got some sewing done on my gown based on the finds from grave 31 in Uvdal church, Norway. I am not making a new interpretation; I'm using Marianne Vedeler's interpretation. The find is not easy to interpret, the gown is still on the well preserved skeleton and the layers can't be taken a part, so she's used CT-scanning to see how they look. I think in this case I'll rely on the professional who's actually worked with the garments.
She hasn't, AFAIK, sewn a reconstruction though, so I'm working from her drawings.

Today I made a working mock-up for the "bodice" and gathered one of the front pieces of the "skirt". It's 64 cm wide and I sewed 23 rows of gathering stitches, 1 cm apart. The back piece is of course double that width. Right now the gathers are pulled together tightly and will rest like that for a couple of days. That's how you do it with folk costume skirts, so I thought I'd do it like that now too.

Current Mood: tired

That, my friends, is a quote from Blur's brilliant song Park life. It is also an accurate description of my life. Well, not the part about getting up when I like, but the part about the dustman. Every wednesday, around 7 am they collect garbage from our block of flats. It involves a garbage press that sounds like it's located just behind our bedroom wall and a lot of clanking and slamming. It is of course impossible not to wake from it. The procedure is repeated around 11 pm, but by then I'm already up and in another part of the flat.
I hate this.
Especially since waking up means facing the fact that every inch of your body is hurting badly, too much to even consider staying in bed.
It is also raining and I need to get to the university.

I'm still very excited about african history before 1800 though. And I started on my reconstruction of a late 14th century woman's dress found in grave 31 Uvdal, Norway, yesterday.

Current Mood: sore

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