Patterns

Premade Patterns

Parsimonious Patterns -- Premade, enlargable patterns, with pictures of the gowns made from them. They're not going to be perfect for everybody, but they're free, and they're a good starting point.

Drafting Instructions

Both these sections are going to be undergoing some pretty heavy updates within the next few months (gods willin' and the crick don't rise, as they say). Project Muslin is only at it's beginning stages. Eventually, I hope to have posted complete drafting instructions for most women's garments. (And I will happily do up the instructions for men's, if someone would be so good as to send me a male tailor's form (standard, *not* duct tape --I'm allergic to the adhesive). I'm very serious on this one, folks. If anyone has a spare male tailor's form they'd be willing to donate, please mail me.) The flat patterning section contains a lot of the older patterning information I had available. I'll be rewriting these with more explicit directions and pictures, eventually..

Hatmaking -- Patterns and basic assembly directions for popular Elizabethan hat styles.

Project Muslin -- Draping instructions for patterning common elizabethan styles off a dress dummy, or a real live human victim.

Flat Pattern Drafting -- Drafting instructions, using measurements and *shudder* math.

Mathematical Helpers

Ye Tailor's Booke of Geometries -- This isn't exactly a set of drafting instructions... It's more sort of a set of mathematical tools, to help with common tasks like hemming a skirt for yourself, without a helper or a dress dummy. Sometimes, math actually *is* the easy way....