Recreating 16th and 17th Century Clothing: The Renaissance Tailo

Demonstrations>Pattern Development>Basic Pattern Drafting Does the thought of making your own patterns leave you in a cold sweat? Does the thought of making patterns for other people make your hands clammy? Are you working from a pattern that you've gotten to fit by changing it over a number of failed tries and mistakes in good fabric? This demonstration will show how to draft what is known as a "Basic Body Block" for the torso. What and Where to Measure - Get a fairly wide and long piece of paper. To Start - On your body, find your natural waist and measure from there to where the clavicle bones meet at the hollow of your throat. Measure around your waist and divide this by four. Now measure from your natural waist to your arm pit or where ever you are most comfortable with your armseye landing. Measure your chest, making sure that the tape is around the widest part of your chest. As you can see in the example above, the addition of green line shows where your center side is.

Elizabethan Costuming Page Tutorial: Circle Skirts by `taeliac on deviantART Some Stitches by *AshFantastic on deviantART Tutorial : Simple Leg Warmers by `taeliac on deviantART How to Add Ears by ~clearkid + Cross Stitching Tutorial + by `RainCookie on deviantART Ash's Dollie Clothes Tutorial by *AshFantastic on deviantART sharon b's in a minute ago I hope you find this needlework dictionary useful and with it able to improve your hand embroidery skills. To assist those who are new to the craft of hand embroidery I have categorised each stitch as to its degree of difficulty. An icon of a single pair of scissors indicates that the stitch is easy to work and you should not hesitate to try it. If you normally have problems following embroidery illustrations the computer can help you. Contents: top Eyelet Stitch Half Chevron stitch Half cross stitch see cross stitch Heavy Braid chain see Heavy chain Heavy chain Herringbone: Herringbone double version 1see Double Herringbone 1 Herringbone double version 2 see Double Herringbone 2 Kensington outline stitch see split stitch Kloster stitch see couching Knot stitch see Bullion knot Knotted stitch see Coral stitch Knotted stitch see French Knot Knotted Cretan: Knotted loop stitch see Basque Knot stitch Knotted Pearl stitch see Reversed Palestrina stitch Vandyke chain stitch see zigzag chain