Yeah, I'm the type of person that trolls through the books looking for the correct period seams and uses what I've found as a mix throughout the clothing I'm doing. I took 6 years to work out how I should do my 7th century Anglo-Saxon cloak, out of a beautiful natural grey warp and deep red weft heavy wool, as the information I needed wasn't available. The lining cloth took 5 years - a lovely thick open weave hemp. However, not everyone can wait 6 years. The tunic took about 5 years of waiting after I'd made the good undertunic until I found the diamond weave too (on the other side of the world).
Some people just spend way too much time and energy on reenactment! I could wait because this isn't my primary period. I started this project in 2001, and I think I'm happy with it now. Glenda -----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Käthe Barrows You're absolutely right, except we didn't see anything from those periods, only from the ones where seam finish was common. But if you'd documented the lack of seam finish, and if your other hand-sewing was good, the lack of seam finish would have looked deliberate, not like an oversight. In that situation I would have credited it to your research and hand-sewing skills. No docs *and* bad hand-sewing would have looked like bad workmanship to me. > > Of course, there are periods where a raw edge is more authentic than > finished edges. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
