This is a medieval tunic found on a body in a Danish bog at Kragelound Mose. It was very ingeniously cut from 22"-wide wool, and therefore can be made from about 2 1/2 yards of 45"-wide fabric (get about 3 yards, at least 48"...
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This is a medieval tunic found on a body in a Danish bog at Kragelound Mose. It was very ingeniously cut from 22"-wide wool, and therefore can be made from about 2 1/2 yards of 45"-wide fabric (get about 3 yards, at least 48" wide, and wash to pre-shrink). The narrow neckhole is slit front and back on the original. The use of gores to give fullness and the clever design to eliminate fabric waste are typical. Assembly is about the same as for the first tunic, except that you must put each sleeve together before sewing it to the body. When the sleeve is in place and you are ready to sew wrist-to-armpit, stretch the back edge of the sleeve slightly as shown, to make up for the extra length given by the triangular gusset. The sleeves of the finished tunic do not lie flat! When assembling gores from halves, always sew together the 2 edges that are parallel to the selvedge edge of the fabric, not the diagonal edges.
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