Historical sewing techniques

Do you want to make your own historical costumes on a budget? These are my 8 tips on how to get started in historical costuming!

If you sew a lot, especially if you sew historical costumes, you’ll have to sew a placket sooner or later. Most plackets aren’t difficult to make but there are some things to keep in mind. Learn what placket to use for what purpose and to sew six types of historical plackets: hemmed placket, bound placket, … Continue reading 6 Ways How To Sew A Placket – Historical Sewing →

18th and 19th-century shirts are hand sewn with a flat-felled seam. This flat-felled seam is based on a 19th-century shirt in a private collection like the shirts worn in Bridgerton and Jane Austen movies. This is perfect hand sewing for modern slow stitchers looking to sew an unlined garment withou

Learn how to make a drawstring closure on your Edwardian petticoat. The Edwardian drawstring closure is fast and easy to sew. And what’s best: you don’t have to sew a placket! 😀 Related: 6 Ways How To Sew A Placket – Historical Sewing This Edwardian petticoat drawstring closure is based on an antique Edwardian petticoat. … Continue reading How To Sew An Edwardian Petticoat Drawstring Closure →

I'm going to try to cover some of the basic stitches and their uses. There are so many other stitches and I really recommend purchasing Kannik's Lady's Guide to Plain Sewing books. I'm mainly covering the types that I'm going to be mentioning a lot. I noticed that one of the hardest things to find information on is what stitch is proper to use where. I'll try to mention a few of the most common uses and they'll come up later in instructions. One of the best tips I have gotten about 18th…

Learn how to invisibly join lace trim by hand for your next historical costuming or heirloom sewing project project.

Are you wondering how to add lace trim like in earlier times? Learn 6 different vintage ways to insert lace and improve your heirloom sewing skills!

Egyptian linen from 5000 BCE, image from the Bolton Museum. Note the scale bar - this is very fine linen! When reconstructing Aegean Bronze Age clothes, I rely heavily on the kind of techniques that were used in Egypt around the same time. The reason for that is simple: we have evidence from Egypt. We know nothing about the techniques used in the Aegean, because no textiles survive in that region. We do know a bit about ancient Egyptian sewing and textile manufacture techniques, because we…

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