Any tunic patterns?

[Eric C]

I'm looking to replace my shirts- that are wearing out- before the Highland games this April. A nice tunic would be great. Anybody got a good pattern/tutorial they would like to see stickied? There is another option, but this particular member has not posted yet so I'll let her chime in as she will.

[E.MacKermak]

http://www.dagorhir.com/gear/content/ga ... _tunic.php - a good easy to use tutorial from the Dagorhir site; pretty well researched

[Mirimaran]

Great pattern, Mac! I will have to try that.

Eric, I have made a couple of shirts just by using my old original shirt as a pattern. I just used some brown paper to make the pattern and then cut the pieces out.

[Eric C]

NICE!!! I didn't read anything about material, so I am assuming linen, wool, maybe cotton, leather if you can find a deal on it. Am I in the ballpark here?

Ken, it doesn't hurt to have some shirts in your wardrobe, so I'll have to use that idea.

[Sam]

Is there any practical reason to have your tunic that length? It looks easy enough to shorten.

[Eric C]

Good question. . . Any answers?

[E.MacKermak]

The pattern is an Anglo-Norman pattern so linen and wool are right. The length can be adjusted longer or shorter as desired. I usually make mine about knee length or a little longer since I play an 8th c Saxon in the SCA...once it is belted it reaches to just above the knee. For shirts that I wear under a tunic, I cut them short, just below the waist.

[Anorwen]

in general, I would recommend the simple T tunic with side and centre front and back gores, as the one from the mentioned tutorial. I always use it in a few variations for our Great Moravia reenactment garments (Central Europe, 9th century AD). you can see such tunics on my website in the section SLOVANIA, which is available only in slovak language, but the pictures do not need translation

but for LOTR purposes I would make some adjustments for a better fit. I would cut the armholes slightly round, the shoulder seam slightly declined from neck to arm. and the upper sleeve edge should have the shape of a low gaussian curve.
the rest can be left unchanged.
but personally I think that the centre front and back gores are not necessary, the tunic is wide enough without them, too.

I know this may sound complicated without pictures, but I have not yet any drawn. if you are interested, I could draw some (but this would taake some time).

if you think about hand sewing, I can only agree wit that. the dress will be more personalized (especially with your own blood on it }:-)).
I have written a short article about hand stitches in 9th century for our slovak living history forum. it can be found here: http://livinghistory.sk/web.php?cl=stehy
it is again in slovak, but maybe the pictures will be helpfull.
there is also an article about fur sewing stitches from a woman who sews fur-coats:
http://livinghistory.sk/web.php?cl=kozusnicke_stehy

[Peter Remling]

Anorwen:

The article showing how to stitch up fur is particularly interesting to me as I cut out a pair of fur lined wool mittens over a year ago and still have them on my "projects to finish pile".

Thanks, Pete

[Eric C]

SLOVANIA, which is available only in slovak language, but the pictures do not need translation

I know this may sound complicated without pictures, but I have not yet any drawn. if you are interested, I could draw some (but this would taake some time).

if you think about hand sewing, I can only agree wit that. the dress will be more personalized (especially with your own blood on it }:-)).
I have written a short article about hand stitches in 9th century for our slovak living history forum. it can be found here: http://livinghistory.sk/web.php?cl=stehy
it is again in slovak, but maybe the pictures will be helpfull.
there is also an article about fur sewing stitches from a woman who sews fur-coats:

http://livinghistory.sk/web.php?cl=kozusnicke_stehy

That's okay. Some people don't think I can read English either. So pictures are a good thing.

The pictures in the articles are somewhat self-explanitory. I'd love to see some drawings when you get the chance to draw them up.