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12th century projects, 12th century tunic - blue & yellow silk, Hand-Sewing, How to secure stress points of necklines, Projects

Reinforcement of neckline stress points – my husbands yellow & blue 12th century silk tunic with keyhole neckline

2016/06/29

It is finally happening – this is my last posting concerning the “reinforcement of neckline stress points“. 🙂 In my most recent postings I introduced you to an old hand sewing technique which helps to provide “reinforcement for neckline stress points”. I also already posted about how I used a simple variation of this old hand sewing technique for the quite special 12th century inspired neckline for my husbands new grey tunic as well as for the slit neckline of my red 12th century silk dress…

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12th century dress - red silk with slit neckline, 12th century projects, Hand-Sewing, How to secure stress points of necklines, Projects

Reinforcement of neckline stress points – my red 12th century silk dress with slit neckline

2016/06/24

Well, it seems like I am finally getting to the second to last posting about my current topic “reinforcement of neckline stress points”. Let me recap my postings about this topic till now: In my last posting I showed you an old hand sewing technique which provides great reinforcement for neckline stress points. And in the posting before the last one I posted pictures of how I used a variation of this technique for my husbands most recent tunic. But let’s not stop at this point as I also used this technique for some other necklines…

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12th century grey light-wool tunic, 12th century projects, Books, Books - Handsewing, Hand-Sewing, How to secure stress points of necklines, Projects

Reinforcement of neckline stress points – an old hand sewing technique revived

2016/06/19

In my last posting I showed you how I strengthened and secured the stress points of the neckline of my husbands new grey tunic. But before anyone starts to call this “Racaire’s neckline reinforcement technique”, I would like to point out that I simply found and revived an old hand sewing technique. I did not invent this technique myself – I simply found it in a very old book I own. 🙂 Well, I admit it, whenever I face a sewing or embroidery related problem, I tend to turn to my quite extensive book collection and take a look through my beloved books. In many cases one of my books offers a very…

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12th century grey light-wool tunic, 12th century projects, Hand-Sewing, How to secure stress points of necklines, Projects

12th century tunic for my husband – how to secure & strengthen the stress points of a 12th century neckline

2016/06/13

In my last posting “12th century tunic for my husband – spotting the stress points of a 12th century neckline” I showed you how to find and identify the most vulnerable points of your neckline – or “stress points”, how I tend to call them. Most of the basic 12th century neckline styles – like a simple round or keyhole neckline – don’t really require any extra strengthening. Due to their lack of real stress points (round neckline) or because their only stress points get exposed to a little bit of extra tension from time to time (keyhole neckline), it is not really necessary to take extra action…

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12th century grey light-wool tunic, 12th century projects, Hand-Sewing, How to secure stress points of necklines, Projects

12th century tunic for my husband – spotting the stress points of a 12th century neckline

2016/05/29

In my most recent postings I showed you my period inspiration for my husbands 12th century neckline as well as how the finished neckline looks like. And today I will tell you how to spot the stress points of your own neckline before I show you how to strengthen and secure them in my next posting. In order to prevent problems like ripping fabric at the stress points of your neckline, I need to give you some more information about how to find the stress points of your 12th century neckline first so you can determine and strengthen them:

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12th century grey light-wool tunic, 12th century projects, Hand-Sewing, Projects, Projects - Tablet weaving, Tablet woven bands

12th century tunic for my husband – the finished 12th century neckline

2016/05/27

In my last posting – “12th century tunic for my husband – 12th century neckline inspired by the “blue Dalmatika” & “white Alba” – I showed you my period inspiration for the 12th century neckline for my husbands new tunic. And today I am going to show you the finished 12th century neckline. Well, it took a while and quite some thinking but eventually I figured the cut out and made a good fitting 12th century neckline. This part of the 12th century tunic project was definitely not easy as I also wanted to incorporate a tablet woven band I made myself. Unfortunately tablet woven bands only stretch little and make it therefore…

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12th century tunic for my husband – 12th century neckline inspired by the “blue Dalmatika” & “white Alba”

2016/05/19

And today let’s take a further look at the 12th century tunic I made for my husband last winter and especially its 12th century neckline inspired by the “blue Dalmatika” and the “white Alba”. I already started to post about this 12th century tunic project several weeks ago but somehow I got a little bit sidetracked after the last posting. It seems like my brain acts like a squirrel at times as I can get easily distracted. Sometimes it can be a hard task for me to keep track of all my projects as there are so many – future, current and already finished ones… However, postponed is definitely not abandoned. I am picking up the thread right…

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12th century projects, 12th century Saint Michael and the Dragon, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Embroidery, Gold Thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Split Stitch

I finally finished my new 12th century “Saint Michael and the Dragon” banner!

2016/05/14

In my previous posting “Working at my 12th century “Saint Michael and the Dragon”“ banner I already showed you the very first steps needed to turn my finished 12th century inspired “Saint Michael and the Dragon” into a small banner for my living room. My last posting included information about how I chose the fabric and where I found the inspiration for the final shape for my banner project. Furthermore I also wrote about how I attached the embroidery to the surface and how I prepared the final shape of the banner…

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Working at my 12th century “Saint Michael and the Dragon” banner

2016/05/10

Some embroidery projects take more time than others until they finally get finished and my 12th century inspired “Saint Michael and the Dragon” embroidery was such an embroidery project. I already finished the 12th century inspired “Saint Michael and the Dragon” embroidery in the summer of 2014. Though I really liked the finished embroidery, it laid dormant in one of my project boxes ever since…

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12th century dress - grey, 12th century projects, Hand-Sewing, Projects

My new grey 12th century dress – maunches and first sewing steps…

2016/04/09

During the last days I was busy working at some calligraphy projects but I also did some hand-sewing and finished a good part of the sleeves for my very new 12th century dress project. While packing for the big Gulf Wars event in Mississippi, I decided that I definitely have to enlarge my own as well as my husbands 12th century wardrobe by several new pieces as soon as I come back. This should ensure that my husband and I will have enough clothing for the next long war.

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