How to sew a medieval dress

The middle ages are attracted not only for its history. Any modern woman will never deny myself the pleasure to put on in the case of extremely feminine dress of the noble ladies of the time. Some models you can make with your own hands.

You will need

• - fabric (silk, linen, cotton, wool, velvet optional).
• - braid;
• - threads;
• centimeter;
• - needle;
• - Mel;
• - decorative lace;
• - hidden zip.

Instruction

1. Start by selecting a style. It may be the medieval dress with corset and fluffy skirt, dress in country style is more simple and casual, usually linen or wool. Most often, women choose dressy, magnificent options as evening dresses. Elegant and original looks, blio – dress with wide sleeves (long or three quarters), with a flared skirt and a plunging neckline. Under this outfit, you will need golfiki or you can wear it without additional clothing, then you should not make the neckline too deep.
2. Redraw the pattern. You will need to remove all the necessary measurements to build it for yourself. In particular, note poluobhvat the bust and waist, hips, length, sleeve length. Need to measure the height of the openings, the volume of the hands near the shoulder.
3. Mark on the pattern its size, adding 1-2 cm to free fit. If you want to dress it was clearly on the figure, you then will be able to take in a little bit, but if it will get little or tailgating, then to add will already be difficult.
4. Make a sketch of how to lay out the pattern on a piece of fabric. To do this, find the fabric, check its width. Draw such a rectangle in proportion. On it lay a dressthat was folded in half along a symmetry axis on the center. Most likely, you'll need to purchase two lengths of the dress. That is, measure the desired length and buy fabric twice – for example, you want dress length 1.35 m, buy at least 2.7 m. If you want to dress it turned out not just to the floor, and with a small train, then increase the length of the product is still 10-20 centimeters.
5. After purchasing the fabric, fold it in half. Lay all parts on a piece of fabric, draw around them with chalk, not forgetting the seam. Be aware that some items of clothing are repeated, and some enough to fold in half (along the axis of symmetry). Then the detail must be put on the fabric so that the fold line of the pattern fell on the fold line of the fabric. When you cut an element, expand the fabric.
6. After cutting out parts and remove them and try. Often, these dresses are sewn with lace, but it is quite difficult, as the sides will have to increase so as to sew and loops for lacing. So the best buy hidden zip and insert it into the side seam. The lock is inserted in the most formfitting of the product – along the trunk to the leg approximately to the flared part of the skirt.
7. Making sure the dress is sitting properly, can astrocyte details. First, perform side seams, sew sleeves, then vystragivaetsja armhole.
8. The finished product need to decorate. With this purpose, sew the lace along neckline, hem, sleeves. The braid can be held in the centre of the dress to the bottom of the skirt. Styling will contribute to the lacing on the sleeve. Such better tie separately, and the lace can be sewn to the sleeve just below the shoulder. Wearing a dress, wrap the arm up to the elbow and tie a string or ribbon. Medieval outfit ready!