Magnus Mantle - first photos
Well, I've mentioned this a couple of times but due to battery shortages, this is the first chance I've had to get some pics ready.
This is the Magnus Mantle. As you can see, it's a work in progress. It's a padded mantle about the proportions of a bishop's mantle, and is meant to be worn as padding under his aventail (a circular piece of chainmail hanging from the bottom of a helm that drapes over the shoulders).
I don't even know if they made padded mantles, but it's what he wanted me to construct for him. I'm only familiar with padded gambesons.
The outside is green linen. The lining is brown linen. It is padded with 4 layers of cotton batting (I did not have enough wool handy). It is stitched and quilted together with double running stitch with handspun linen (purchased at pennsic).
I have at least 9 more rays of quilting to stitch, and then I'll start doing diagonal stitching, in a herringbone pattern, using the rays as landmarks to change directions.
It will have a short mandarin style collar which will be attached after I complete the main part of the mantle and I will co-ordinate the rays on the body to line up with the quilting on the neck.
The mantle will lace up in the back, and I'm going to do hand sewn eyelets to stitch them up instead of the grommets we have used in the past.
It's a real pain to stitch through 4 layers of batting. A real pain. You have to worry the needle through every time, or you risk snagging a chunk of the cotton and dragging it out with the needle as it exits the fabric.
I've got till the end of this month to get it together. EEK!
This is the Magnus Mantle. As you can see, it's a work in progress. It's a padded mantle about the proportions of a bishop's mantle, and is meant to be worn as padding under his aventail (a circular piece of chainmail hanging from the bottom of a helm that drapes over the shoulders).
I don't even know if they made padded mantles, but it's what he wanted me to construct for him. I'm only familiar with padded gambesons.
The outside is green linen. The lining is brown linen. It is padded with 4 layers of cotton batting (I did not have enough wool handy). It is stitched and quilted together with double running stitch with handspun linen (purchased at pennsic).
I have at least 9 more rays of quilting to stitch, and then I'll start doing diagonal stitching, in a herringbone pattern, using the rays as landmarks to change directions.
It will have a short mandarin style collar which will be attached after I complete the main part of the mantle and I will co-ordinate the rays on the body to line up with the quilting on the neck.
The mantle will lace up in the back, and I'm going to do hand sewn eyelets to stitch them up instead of the grommets we have used in the past.
It's a real pain to stitch through 4 layers of batting. A real pain. You have to worry the needle through every time, or you risk snagging a chunk of the cotton and dragging it out with the needle as it exits the fabric.
I've got till the end of this month to get it together. EEK!