I offered to pop up to Tahims in Coventry to get a friend some fabric for his Odyssey costume. It’s beautiful fabric this – what they use for making Sikh Turbans. And it’s only £1.35 a meter. I’m planning on writing up a tutorial for LARP Guide because I used my GoPro to film the process. Stay tuned!
Tag: costuming
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#19: Murder Robes
Absolutely no murdering will be happening in these robes that I put together.
Deliberate oversized baggy fit, extra wide sleeves, dark grey fabric trimmed with mid grey bias tape.
First time I’d used commercially made bias tape and I have to admit, it holds a crease really well which allows you to get great accuracy when putting it on in a single pass.
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#17: Anglo Saxon Tunic
Simon needs clothes for Heathen. This is the first bit of the puzzle.
I also made the mistake of testing out the idea of some hand embroidery instead of machine embroidery, and it looks really good. So there might be quite a bit of that on this tunic – in time.
Both the lavender and the olive fabrics are hand dyed. I’m feeling quite pleased with this one.
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#13-16: Brais x4
This weekend I put together three new pairs of Brais (for Adam, Simon, and myself) and dyed another pair dark. I’ve got to admit, I love my new overlocker. These came together so quickly with no need to french seam anything or do any extra finishing on the inside.
You see, Adam managed to wash his nice linen pair with something brown, and so his brais turned a nice nude colour. Not really ideal.
I had to do some dyeing of fabric anyway for Simon, so it was no bother to do an extra bucket of dark brown dye.
And I seamed around the edges on my overlocker too (which get tucked into the hose). Because for some reason nobody bothered to finish the edges when he bought them.
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#8: Octopus Dice Bag
A test piece for a new endeavour. (Ssssh… it’s all a bit under wraps at the moment). It needs it’s drawstring, but it’s almost there.
Hand dyed fabric left over from Simon’s Mythlore costume and a cute Octopus from Urban Threads.
I learned a few things during construction, mostly that I need to make the base fabric another half inch or so wide for it to be able to fit on the free arm of the machine and make construction much, much easier. I need to use a measuring foot for accurate stitching of the cord channel. And I need to batch construct these pieces to make it more worthwhile.
I’m also teaching myself to digitise images on my embroidery software, for a top secret project with a friend.
I have this test piece left over, I have no idea what to do with him. 😀
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#6 & #7: 13thC Fantasy Surcoat & Tunic
For Highguard at Empire LRP!
That’s 17 machine embroidered compass designs in total, the design around the hem goes all the way around to the back.
Unfortunately Ikea LENDA fabric doesn’t seem to allow stain removal, so it’s rather grubby and brown in places despite multiple washes.
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Medieval Costume Design for Heretic LRP
I actually sat down and sketched out Simon’s costume.
The purple tunic is mid-calf length for a reason – it’s a traveling cote. It’s split in the front and back so that it could be used for riding. Obviously you’d wear it with hose under rather than a robe if you wanted to ride, so I might make them too if I have enough time.
This is the set of bodylinens I’ve already made – you can read about them in their own post.
And these are the other colours of green I’ve got for the costume – I’ve not dyed the purple yet.
Also, Sid came to visit.
And because I cut the neck wrong (too big) on the body linens, I’m working on a fancy undershirt.
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Medieval Body Linens
So these are the under layers for Simon’s Heretic LRP costume. I read about online and found that in this period (early 13th Century) the length of the robes would have been used to denote the status of the wearer. So we have gone – of course – for full length. He’s going to play some kind of clever scholarly type so it makes sense.
In this shot the hem and sleeves were waiting to be measured on him and taken up – which I’m currently in the middle of doing by hand. I’m also hand felling all the inside seams. Yeah, I’m *that* kind of person.
So here’s the pattern and my cutting layout:
I picked up these gorgeous coloured embroidery threads too for doing guarded seam decoration on the outside. It’s a big project. You will barely see it. I don’t care.
And here’s the rest of the ‘making of’ shots:
I’ve not quite worked out how to turn a satisfactory point on bias binding yet.
Just needs a few stitches in that corner by hand and it’ll be fine! Setting squares by machine is *hard*!
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Simon’s Medieval Costume
So, Simon is hoping to play Heretic LRP late this year. And I went OMG YES I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE U COSTUME PLS THANK U. So I’m making costume.
This is the first post in what I suspect will be a series of many. There is already a Pinterest ideas board.
Follow Charlotte’s board Costume : Simon’s Medieval on Pinterest.
This is where we’ve got to so far.
A colour scheme:
Which coincides with this years Pantone colours of 2016 (not planed – just pleased it happened!):
Some fabric got dyed:
And we went to the reenactors market and I bought wool and belts:
And that’s basically the material stash as it is for the moment.