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[wildwood-faun]

Sewing medieval: Tunics and gores

If you want to sew medieval you're probably going to have to deal with gores. They are a handy way of adding a lot of width to a garment while keeping the shapes of the fabric very simple. You can create your own pattern for a square cut dress or tunic with gores very easily with just a few measurements!

Today I'm sharing some links to garment information and tutorials (some of which contain technique advice), and some links to pure technique posts.

Garment focused

Some archaeological finds of tunics and gowns, organised by type

A couple of dresses and tunics with cutting diagrams and very basic sewing instructions (website-wise we're back in 1999 here isn't that cool)

A guide to a recreation of the Bocksten tunic

A blog post on the Bocksten tunic (some of the images are broken but there are some very useful considerations in the text)

An "Easy Men’s Tunic for Renaissance Fair" - This one is not based directly on a historical find but the construction is solid enough. A good starting point. You can lengthen it to make a dress.

A "simple medieval & viking dress" this one has the fancy medieval s-sleeve design if you want to get into that. I haven't tried it yet. Can be shortened to make a tunic.

Technique focused

Putting a gore in a medieval garment - Handcrafted History has a bunch of great tutorials. I found this one invaluable when I made my tunic.

How to insert a small sleeve gore - if you're making a garment with tighter sleeves, you may want to add something like this for ease of movement

This information will be in some of the links as well but: depending on your fabric you may wish to flat fell your seams after you've put your garment together. It's very satisfying.