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12th century dress project – red silk dress with maunches and surface couching embroidery finally finished! :D

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Wooohoooo! I finally attached the embroidered bands to the upper arm part of my sleeves  - yeahhhhh! the last stitches for this project are done now – I am sooooo excited :D

I just had to sacrifice 4 eyelets per embroidered band – yay, the lacing goes that far… *lol* too bad that I didn’t know this when I made them – 8 eyelets which weren’t really necessary… *lol*

btw. I finally decided to also put some extra support on the bottom part of the neckline at the back because it looks like it is working quite fine for the front – sorry, I forgot to take a pic of it but it looks similar like shown in this posting about the support for the front: “12th century dress project – …extra support of the neckline .2 & embroidered bands for the upper arm .3 :) “

Yay, the red silk dress is finished by now and I really like it :D …get the sparking wine! let’s throw a party! ;)

12th century dress project – …extra stitches for the maunches (my long sleeves)

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Some time ago I discovered a small problem with my maunches/sleeves – after washing – well, when the dress and silk was dry again – the border started to flip over to the outside – well, it is not really a bad thing and maybe no one besides me ever noticed it, but it bugs me, oh yeah, it does and how it does… *lol*

IMG_20130418_164332_original.jpgI anyway had to iron the dress, especially for the extra support for the neck line and for applying the new embroidered bands at the sleeves, so I also ironed the maunches but it didn’t really help against the flipping over, like usual…

…so I thought – “damn it” – because I already was going to work at the sleeves and thought I finally should do what I wanted to do when I discovered the problem the first time… to add a second row of long running stitches about 1,5cm away from the border… and yeah, as you can see at the picture above – it works very fine, as I imagined it. :)

The two borders on the right are already finished and got their second supportive line of long running stitches… and the two borders of my maunches on the left… well, they flip over, like the ones on the right also did, before I added the supportive line of stitches :)

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…at the picture on the left once again the same borders of my maunches, just not hanging… ;)

The borders on the top near to my logo are the untreated ones… you can see the damn flip really good that bothered me so much, especially at the inside…

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12th century dress project – …extra support of the neckline .2 & embroidered bands for the upper arm .3 :)

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IMG_20130415_235751_original.jpg…and here finally a picture of the extra support for the bottom part of my neckline – I think I might do the same to the bottom part of the neckline at the back…

A sneak view of the dress with the alteration – well, it looks more stiff then before and I am rather pleased but I haven’t laced the dress really tight yet because I only wanted to see at which height I want to place my embroidered bands at my upper arms (and lacing and un-lacing always takes so much time and effort *lol*)… Yeah, that’s what this embroidered bands are for at which I was working the last days and weeks and I like it :)

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…next step: I will prepare the bands so far that I can attach them to the sleeves – that means that I will insert the same band which I used to reinforce my neckline at the bottom and top of the bands to give them a little bit more support and “body”… and I will surely need “more body” at the top because the bands are so high that they will cover up some of the lacing part which goes rather deep until the point where the maunches are set in… but I already have a solution for this on my mind… :)

12th century dress project – some repair work & extra support of the neckline embroidery

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I really love my new 12th century dress but with the very tight fit I had to face a problem with the neckline embroidery and because my sister Bella let me promise that I will post about my repair work… so, here we are… yay, Bella, didn’t forget my promise… ;)

While wearing the dress, the silk and the embroidery are exposed to a lot of tension and the silk (but not the embroidery) stretches slightly in one direction – especially problematic where it is embroidered 45° over the weave of the fabric – and due to the simple pattern of the dress in connection with the high tension of the lacing it waves a little bit underneath my breasts which causes the couching stitches of the embroidery to shift even more than just because of the tension from the lacing and voila – the couched thread escapes where it gets the possibility.

At the picture underneath you can see the long embroidered border lines of the basic embroidery pattern – I already tried my best to repair the parts where the couching stitches shifted and the thread “escaped” – that’s why the stitches might appear rather irregular at some parts of this part of the embroidery…

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To repair the broken parts I added more couching stitches over the already damaged parts – where needed – and to prevent more damage in the future I decided to reinforce the embroidery with some support at the back side…

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I will add a band – which you can see at the picture – at the inside along the outer border of the neckline… first I will just attach the band (here doubled for the extra support for the part underneath my breasts) with some fine stitches along the the border, following the stitches with which I stitched the border of the neckline fabric to the dress…

Well, I am not 100% sure if it will work but it should prevent more damage to the embroidery because the band will take away some of the tension from the lacing from the silk and the embroidery and add some extra support… the band doesn’t stretch at all but is still rather flexible in its movement to all sides… well, I hope the best concerning the final outcome …like always ;)

…more embroidery for my 12th century silk dress… embroidered bands for the upper arm .2 :)

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…and, after such a long time, finally more embroidery progress for my 12th century silk dress. :)

I finished the embroidery of the basic pattern and just finished filling in the roundels for the embroidered bands which I will attach at the sleeves – at the upper arm (above the elbow) – of my silk 12th century silk dress. :)

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Yes, again surface couching, the technique I already used for the embroidery for the slit neck of my 12th century silk dress – with a very thin silk (from the handweaver studio in London) I couched the thread “Ophir” from the company Coats to the red silk fabric and I am very pleased with how it looks like.

My inspiration for the “filling” of the roundels were again the lovely “animals”, or lets call them “beasts” ;) , from the Bayeux tapestry – which I already used for my “Bayeux dress project” some years ago – one of my favourite fun projects. :)

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…and I know, some of you always like to see the backside of my embroidery and here it is… :)
I always try to keep my backside as nice as possible because I think that it makes working at the front much easier. :)

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…more embroidery for my 12th century silk dress… embroidered bands for the upper arm .1 :)

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my red 12th century silk dress

…some of you will remember my recent 12th century silk dress… and well, it’s still not finished, yay, more embroidery, what else? ;)

During the last months I was – from time to time –  working a little bit on the embroidered bands for this dress and finally there is enough progress to share it with you.

First I thought about doing a slightly different pattern for the bands but then I decided to stick with the same basic design which I did for the slit neckline :)

…and finally – here are the progress pictures of my embroidered bands – the basic design for one band is already finished – now to what I hate most – I have to copy the design for the other band and do it a second time ;)

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…a picture of my new red 12th century silk dress

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my red 12th century silk dress

…because I know that there are still many people without a facebook account, I thought it might be nice to add a picture of my finished 12th century dress here too – I really like the final result …and many thanks to my friend Gloria who took this picture of my lord and me.

Btw. you can find many progress pics of this dress and the embroidery at my facebook page - “12th century silk dress project :) ” -