Through the years as I’ve been active on various forums, I have spontaneously put together simple diagrams in an attempt to explain aspects of medieval tailoring and construction techniques. I often use MS Visio or sometimes Corel Draw. Click any of the thumbnails below to browse the gallery.
- Running stitch
- Back stitch
- Medieval French seam
- Flat-felling a seam
- How to start a medieval boxy buttonhole
- Sewing a cloth button, part 1
- Sewing a cloth button, part 2
- One gore, or two half-size gores?
- Piecing an isosceles gore from a rectangle of fabric
- Piecing gores on a tunic
- Extending a fitted dress’ torso pieces to the hem
- Straight grain versus bias
- Front and back gores on the Hohenklingen aventail
- Generic medieval tunic layout
- An extrapolation of the Museum of London hood fragment
- How to sew a separate liripipe into a hood
- Inserting a sleeve for attachment to the body pieces
- Pattern pieces for a round-top trapezoid purse
- A 1410 French headdress
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