Later Period Germans
OK, first off - thank you for your patience with my little ‘ Origins of the Landsknecht’ blog-series/project. I swear, I *am* actually sewing and will blog about that soon as well. As a point of observation; I say I won’t quilt because I don’t see the point of cutting fabric into small pieces, sewing it back together and then cutting it up again to
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I think it looks knitted - seed stitch or moss stitch, maybe?
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;)
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As a point of observation; I say I won’t quilt because I don’t see the point of cutting fabric into small pieces, sewing it back together and then cutting it up again to sew it in a pattern…and yet I make men’s early-period German costumes where that sort of thing happens all the time… WTF?!?
This. In spades. I will gladly sew pieced pants. But quilting makes me want to stab myself with scissors.
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Right now I am in the process of taking stripes of shaped fabric and safety pinning them together so that I can then handsew them together ("Look Ma! No visible stitches!") and then stitch them to the pants base once I slash them.
Because I am certifiable.
*chuckle*
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And this fills me with much glee.
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;)
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That isn't what makes quilting, quilting. What you've described, there, is the piecing of a top (sometimes, of necessity, backs of whatever the quilted article is had to be pieced, too) or the outer 'fabric' or surface of said quilted article ( ... )
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You tell me.
It's you who refuses to "quilt."
My observation was and is merely that the cutting of fabric into pieces and reassembling them into fabric, isn't quilting. It's piecing.
If you think about it, "cutting [whole] fabric into pieces and reassembling those into a larger [shaped] piece" is what we do when we make garments.
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Second, that you a thousand times for actually being German if hubby is going to wear pants like that. I loathe seeing those on "English" people at fairs.
Third, I think the modern equivalent of hunting (as you describe it) must be bowling.
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As for the English wearing Pluderhosen styles: Um...what?!? Aren't there English sumptuary laws on the books in Elizabeth's time that SPECIFICALLY talk about the limitation of yardage in pants because of the infection of English tailors by 'German Fashion'? I swear I have read about this specific issue somewhere.
sstormwatch - am I crazy here?
Finally, I am thinking there has to be a Dick Chaney-esque gig done with this at some point. "Dear, I appear to have shot our friend the jurist in the face while hunting the local fowl. Do be a love and fetch us strong beer and a bit of clean linen..."
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Your moose hat reminds me that I've been waiting close to 10 years for a viking chicken hat from my sister in law. I gave up holding my breath around year 2.
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