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The autumn months of the french Republican Calendar !

Vendémiaire, the Month of Wine Harvests ; Brumaire, the Month of Mists ; Frimaire, the Month of Frost. If you’re a libra, Scorpio, or Sagittarius, you can check what a match for your birthday could be ! (The Calendar I’m making is perpetual, so I’ve taken liberties on matching the dates to those of our gregorian calendar, but depending on years and calculations the date correspondance would normally differ on a possible range of three days. The date range at the top of each page is the possible range of each month in the Gregorian calendar.)

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Hi! I love your historical pants. Did you use an existing pattern, or did you draft your own? And if so... Do you sell patterns at all? I'd love to make myself a pair but I haven't learned enough to make my own patterns yet

Hello ! I got this question a lot so I hope you won't mind if I use it as a springboard to make a general public reply about it ! For reference, I started sewing a year and a half ago. I don't have any formal training and started from zero, so I kind of just rely on enthusiasm and trial and error.

For most of my projects, I use a mix of patterns and draping. I mostly do men's clothing and the patterns I find don't always match my body type exactly, so I rarely get to use them as is. I'm fairly tall and narrow so usually the smaller men's sizes are a good base, but not all patterns include sizes small enough, and there's still much to fix for me in terms of chest length, leg length, thighs, etc. That'll be something to keep in mind if you're smaller or more hourglass shaped for instance.

For the fall front trousers, it was kind of an impulse project, so I didn't work from a book and I bought a pdf pattern from Laughing Moon Mercantile. It was very useful to construct the front, which is quite complex by my second-year-of-sewing standards, but it only came in fairly big sizes so there was a lot of alterations to do pretty much everywhere else. Also worth noting is that the pdf is made for an A0 format, and although you can print it at home on a mosaic of A4 paper using Acrobat, it's impossible to select which "tile" section of the A0 page you want to print. The pdf pattern contains many options and printing everything to get just the pieces I needed was just too wasteful to do. Instead, I printed only the pattern pieces from the first page, and drafted/copied the missing pieces from other pages myself directly on pattern paper. If you're willing to go through the printing and resizing hassle, it's a great pattern with very clear and exhaustive informations on construction and options for both historical and modern notions.

I picked that one because I wanted to do trousers specifically and it matched my needs best with many options to potentially combine, but if you're looking to do shorter breeches or just want to use it for the fall front, patterns are fairly easy to find on etsy or elsewhere. I like Reconstructing History because their smallest men's size works great for me and they cover a huge range of eras and styles. Unfortunately the instructions don't contain as many diagrams and are sometimes a bit more difficult to follow. I almost never buy paper patterns so I can't recommend any. When it comes to actual historical garments that aren't like, halloween costumes, I find it very difficult to encounter paper patterns and I only find what I'm looking for in books or pdf patterns. I find that both is best where you're a beginner ; the book gives great insight, and the pdf is a good base to work off. I'm still fairly new so I only have a few books (some of them physical, a lot of them pdfs, because they're expensive and sometimes out of print) but they're great classics and they help me a lot :

The Cut of Men's Clothes, 1600-1900 by Nora Waugh 17th Century Men's Dress Patterns by Braun, Costiglio, North, Thornton and Tiramani The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Common Garments 1100-1480 by Sarah Thursfield Patterns of Fashion - Books 3 and 4 by Janet Arnold

Sorry this was so long ! If you're a beginner reading this, keep in mind I just threw myself at this with no prior experience quite recently and I'm having a lot of fun so go for it and don't be afraid to make mistakes and start over ! Good luck :)

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A fistful of rats

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ab. 1820 Martin Archer Shee - Portrait of the Artist’s Son William

(Royal Academy of Arts, London)

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Entering my sans-culotte era babes

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Found !! Thanks a lot @milfbahorel !

If anyone has access to the short film The Enlightenment by Julia Ford starring Tom Burke PLEASE make contact this is an official warrant being served by the Dumas discord server bureau of investigation!!!

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If anyone has access to the short film The Enlightenment by Julia Ford starring Tom Burke PLEASE make contact this is an official warrant being served by the Dumas discord server bureau of investigation!!!

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Little jeanne with a Grand Bascinet

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Cy-lindric how are you so good at historical fashion???

it's the worms in my brains doing all the research for me Ratatouille style

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What religion do they practice/way of life they lead in the monastery?

And what's the rough outline of the hierarchy?)

//and if it isn't too many questions in one: what's the feel of the story, what's the main goal, or is there a reason it's set there specifically (?)

I really love your attention to detail and character designs so much!!

Their religion is called Madonicism and it's basically a fantasy variant of catholicism. It doesn't involve a christic figure, and mostly revolves around a big roster of saints, both common to all and local to each city/region, with various levels of importance. The main saint is the Madon, a three-faced motherly figure. It's the main religion in western europe and it's part of a wider group of religions called cruciphore religions.

The monastery is an Abbey, and it's ruled by a set of two people : an Abbess of the women, and an Abbot of the men. In reality, their functions overlap and men and women share most spaces in the abbey. Sworn brothers and sisters all work in the monastery, and some of them have specific functions like key keeper, librarian, lead cook, lead shefferd etc. The people in the green doublets are Acolytes, young nobles who are only here for a few years to learn to study. Kids in beige are novices.

As for the story itself, I'll keep that for myself for now ! I'm pitching the project at the moment, so you'll have to see :^)

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What’s the name of the black haired person in the middle, between Soeur clomonde and Fibert? If it’s there and I missed it, sorry! But I couldn’t find a name?

That's Halcyon, one of the two main girls. I'm an idiot and I forgot to write her names after deleting it to move it around in the composition lol She's a student who recently arrived at the monastery to prepare the doctorate, and who seems to be hiding a lot of Bigtime Secrets....

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I must admit I love all your monastic OCs, but I'm particularly intrigued by the design of the Abbe's coiffe. Is there any magic in this AU? What happened to Clomonde's eye?

Also... Fibert looks very cute. Who is more feral between him and Nanthilde?

There is magic in that world yes ! It's fairly limited ; it's some sort of divination magic based on linguistics. Their liturgical language can't like, summon demons or make fireballs, but it can grant images and visions of hidden truths (?) and answer questions if you're like, really good at grammar.

The Abbé's coiffe is inspired by 15th century hats and it's the headwear for abbots. I think it's common for noblemen of Massà to veil and hide their faces anyway, but the abbot probably has some type of scarring that he's obscuring somewhat.

Clomonde's eye is just like that, probably since childhood. I think it's just some type of strabism. Regular human uniqueness.

Fibert and Nanthilde are siblings and Nanthilde is definitely the chaos agent here. I'm not sure where she'll fit in the story ; she's more of a background presence for now, but I see her as some sort of feral kitten running around.

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their faces are all so different and interesting…! for the sake of asking a specific question rather than a general one, I would love to know more about the doctors and their work. Is two doctors a lot for a monastery of this size?

In that world (and similarly to today, I suppose), Doctes are both teachers and researchers. They are, like others in the abbey, sworn to monastic vows, but they are not constrained to the walls of their monastery. They usually specialize in a particular subject and they go around advising rulers and researching their chosen topic.

Only one Docte is made in Massà every year, and two candidates are presented to the Prince. The abbey where the story is set has multiple Doctes on site teaching aspirants and novices, but I think most places wouldn't have that sort of privilege and wouldn't take students to prepare for the doctorate. Basically, the Abbey of Reol is the only one in Massà to offer a graduate program. There would be similar programs in other countries and city-states though.

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Hi! About your Massa project, I was curious about the Asconha and Lac D'ogne regions. The rest of the map seems to be pretty faithful to IRL Europe as far as I can tell, with the exception of those two. Any particular reason why?

Also, how did you come up with their names?

Hello ! The geological variations on what is under the sea and what isn't here is a little random. I don't have any particular plans with this as of yet. Asconha is an amalgamation of Gascony which pretty much has the same south/southeast border, and the duchy of Aquitaine that each further up along the atlantic coast. In gascon occitan, Gascony is called Gasconha, hence Asconha. The idea is that of a strong duchy of occitan culture, similarly to what Aquitaine was for a good chunk of the medieval period. Le lac d'Ogne simply matches the current département of Dordogne, simple as. I wanted to have a big fake lake somewhere so I put it on the garonne. RIP la dordogne

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Hello! Monastery OC question: what can you tell us about Clomonde, Rafael, or Callendau?

Clomonde's title at the monastery is Soeur Claviste : she's the one keeping track of the keys to every room in the monastery, especially the scriptorium and library where the precious precious stuff is. High responsibility and high risk of corruption. The shitty sheriff of the abbey

Rafael is the Frère Bibliophore. He's in charge of organizing the library and carrying books around, except he doesn't really phore any biblios because he has arthritis. Loves a good decimal classification system though

Calendau is the Archipastre, ceo of the sheep situation. Cannot count to 100, but can tell you which little guy is missing from the herd from a 1km distance. He has sheep emotional intelligence

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Ok, I've started queueing some of my replies, they should come up a couple of times a day but if that's still a nuisance to you feel free to mask #ViperLoreDumping. I'll try to stay succinct so I don't reveal too much. Here we go !

Sorry I didn't get around to responding to all your OC messages yet ! I'm in the process of Bigtime Writing but I'll be back around soon. Cheers !