Yesterday I just saw a pattern of the viking wide trousers. It's on this webpage: http://www.kostym.cz/ I cannot figure out the direct page, so you have to choose english, then enter and the pants are under "pattern's adaptation" - "trousers". If you then click on the pattern, the text appears in Czech, but they only say that there was no exact garment found yet and that the pattern is not a historical reconstruction, but it's aim is to achieve the same appearance. It's gathered at the waist and under the knees. For gathering, they recommend inserting a simple drawstring. For the author it seems redundant to make complicated pleats at the back - taking inspiration from the tight originals. Lauren Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Excuse me for being a dope -- my project keeps slipping backwards in time, so what i originally thought took place post-Norman conquest is looking more and more like a late Viking-era development, and so NOW I am more interested in Norse poufy pants than I expected to be -- but the Swedish Historiska pdf sure seems to imply the pants were gathered around the knee, and I had heard rumors that the pants weren't really gathered, just looked that way because of tighter wraps on the lower legs. Has this been resolved anywhere? I'm always finding that the details I really LIKE -- in this case, the gathers -- turn out to be modern interpretations not supported by the historical evidence. I keep meaning to add an article to my Web site about how often historical accuracy is like going shopping with a mean, unfashionable auntie.
Thanks for any clue on these guys, anyway! Lauren Lauren M. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Lena wrote: > > --- Kathy Page wrote: > >> I have someone wanting a pair of those Birka poufy >> pants. Does anyone have a general assembly, pattern >> sort of thing out there that I might use? I swear >> someone out there had a fairly definitive how to, >> but I can no longer locate it. >> >> Kathy > > There's a pattern and info at the Swedish Historiska > världar website: > http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/eng/drakter/vherre/vherrefr.htm > http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/drakter/monster/dvmpasbyxor.pdf > > The drawing ought to make the construction fairly > straightforward, but if you have problems, contact me > and I can translate the pattern pdf. > > /Lena > > Send instant messages to your online friends http:// > uk.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
