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.
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- Running stitch
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- Back stitch
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- Medieval French seam
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- Flat-felling a seam
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- How to start a medieval boxy buttonhole
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- Sewing a cloth button, part 1
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- Sewing a cloth button, part 2
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- One gore, or two half-size gores?
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- Piecing an isosceles gore from a rectangle of fabric
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- Piecing gores on a tunic
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- Extending a fitted dress’ torso pieces to the hem
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- Straight grain versus bias
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- Front and back gores on the Hohenklingen aventail
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- Generic medieval tunic layout
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- An extrapolation of the Museum of London hood fragment
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- How to sew a separate liripipe into a hood
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- Inserting a sleeve for attachment to the body pieces
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- Pattern pieces for a round-top trapezoid purse
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- A 1410 French headdress