Video Notes:

Join me as I sew a medieval tunic out of my handwoven fabric.

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Transcripts for videos are available on my website.

Notes:

Materials:
– handwoven fabric (warp linen/cotton blend, weft BFL wool)
– linen/cotton yarn for sewing
– beeswax for sewing thread
– hand sewing needle
– snips
– quilting pins (longer than normal sewing pins
– orange lace weight wool yarn for thread marking

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Attributions:

Title Card:

Photo by Anton Atanasov
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Logo designed and drawn by A.R. Gergler

Background Music:

Music: Blacksmith by Alexander Nakarada (www.creatorchords.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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Music: Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.creatorchords.com)
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Music: Celtic Whispers by Alexander Nakarada (www.creatorchords.com)
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End Screen:

Photo by Anton Atanasov
https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photo-of-forest-1655901/

Transcript:

[Music]

The sun, oh god. It is time to stop procrastinating and actually start sewing this tunic. I started last night uh simply by measuring out where I need to cut apart my handwoven fabric. And I started making some cotton fabric strips to secure the fabric where I’m going to cut it. I go into why I’m doing this in a previous video so you can go reference that if you’re a little lost as to why I’m doing that. I don’t have much else to say otherwise. Let’s do the most stressful part of this whole project.

So we have come to the most stressful part of this entire project. I have very generously measured out my pieces. They will probably have to be trimmed down at a later date because I do build in extra length to all of these, but I’d rather the pieces be too big and have to trim them down than have them be too small and freak out about that. Here we are. I have sandwiched my handwoven fabric between two pieces of cotton. I am using 2 in wide strips of cotton on the front side of the fabric so that if I don’t need to make any additional cuts, I can use the extra width of cotton to fold around over and bind to the edge. I’ll trim it down if I need to, but the option is there. Each edge that’s going to be cut has two rows of stitches along this sandwich. It’s not historically accurate as far as I know. It’s just the thing that worked best for me when I tested it out. I will have to make some more cuts after this series. This is only straight horizontal cuts. uh I’ll need to make a vertical cut here for the underarm gussets and for the side and back gores, I will have to make some diagonal cuts to make them triangular. But these are the first cuts that I have to make which is why I’m stalling. It is extremely nerve-wracking making that first cut, but I think I’m about as prepared as I can be. So I’m going to do it.

On to the next one.