A female friend of mine has agreed to make the costumes for an amature production of ‘Wyrd Sisters’ by Terry Pratchett. But bless her little cotton socks she has taken on a bit much, today she gave me a mission to find costume patterns for a medieval King, and a Knight. The catalougue (sp?) that she had seen the patterns in had sold out in our local shop, and the play will have started before we could order them in… I was wondering if any one out there in cyberspace knew of a site where such patterns could be downloaded?
She just wants to help this little provincial theatre put on a good show, my motives I must admit involve showing how nice a person I am, and thus fine breeding stock :dubious: Any help would be much apreciated
The “Beginners” section of Reconstructing History has some nice, simple, authentic patterns. My sister has made several of the “Your First Garb” gowns, and even I managed to produce “A Reconstructed Chemise”. There’s also a tunic and an undershirt, and the women’s patterns could easily be modified into a royal robe and tunic.
In my opinion, it’s going to be difficult to make a pattern from a download unless you are an experienced pattern maker. (They are not so much patterns as instructions for making a pattern; obviously a real pattern would be much too large to print out.) I’d say it would be much easier to order patterns ready-made and there are hundreds of historical pattern manufacturers on the Web. Try http://www.grannd.com - I think they make Renn costumes. Perhaps also Laughing Moon but they might be more of the Victorian/Civil War era.
Mrs H tells me to point you to Simplicity and McCalls. She prefers the Simplicity. It looks like Renn is more popular than medieval, but this is all I have time for at the moment.
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So, does this make ME good breeding stock?
For a King, it would work well to do a robe from a very simple pattern- if you pick a pretty fabric and dress it up with good trim and accents, it should do the trick.
