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  • An aumônière as it might have appeared in 1380 Paris
  • An English noble lady’s outfit circa 1480
  • Aumônières, otherwise known as alms purses
  • Comparison between curved-front fitting and straight-front fitting
    • Figural art that supports the look of curved front seam tailoring
    • Figural art that supports the look of straight front seam tailoring
  • Cut to pieces by a determined tailor
  • Fitting for bust-support: how I started
  • Fitting the belly: a curve celebrated in medieval tailoring
  • How I stopped worrying and learned to love layers
  • Martial surcottes of the 14th century in England and France
  • The “elbow hinge” tailoring of the Charles de Blois pourpoint
  • The elusive feminine “cotehardie”
  • The tailoring of the grande assiette
    • The pourpoint of Charles de Blois (Moyen Age Article)
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  • A curved-front seam fitting method for a bust-supportive dress
  • A straight-front seam fitting method for a bust-supportive dress
  • Drafting a grande assiette-style upper sleeve from measurements
  • Drafting and sewing an early 14th-century-style martial surcotte
  • Making a dress from your bust-supportive bodice pattern
  • Setting a gore into slit fabric
    • Why does the seam allowance shrink as it approaches the top of the slit?

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Recent Posts:

• New tutorial lite: Drafting a grande assiette-style upper sleeve from measurements
• New tutorial lite: Making a dress from your bust-supportive bodice pattern
• Impressions after the Medieval Congress
• Medieval Martial Lovefest in Kalamazoo
• Fourteenth Century Clothing Workshops in California
• Change to Bay Area Plans
• “Redressing What We Know”: slide-enhanced lectures in April
• The cotehardie that ate my brain!
• Placing your 14th century buttons just so
• Examination in France
• Applying for the Janet Arnold Award
• Welcome to the new La cotte simple!