I hand sew everything... and my gores are razor sharp. All it ever takes is practice. As for no gores in the 13th century being sharp... Just how many extant garments do we have to make that assumption on? I would personally think that gores varied ... some pointy, some not.
YMMV, Bridgette However: The original poster was trying to make a 13th century garment. > The best way to get a 13th c. effect is to use 13th c. techniques. If you > use a modern machine technique to set your gore, you'll get a modern > (pointy) gore, which appears *not* to be something that is found in > medieval clothing. The best way to achieve the medieval-looking gore is to > use the medieval method, which is hand-sewing. > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
