Sixteenth Century shirt making; a hands-on, end-to-end series

This series of five classes will take you through all of the skills you need to hand sew a sixteenth century men’s shirt. Each class is a hands-on look at part of the process; come to the whole series, and walk away ready to sew a shirt, or dip into a class or two to pick up or brush up on some hand-sewing skills and techniques.

All classes include hands-on practice of the techniques being taught, and you’ll leave with samplers you’ve made illustrating the technique(s) being covered.

The individual classes are:

Class 1: Introduction

• - Materials and tools used
• - Patterning
• - Cutting

Class 2: Hem stitching

• - Using a third hand
• - Whip stitching
• - Back stitching
• - Equivalent machine techniques

Class 3: Insetting gores

•  - How to set a gore into a slit easily and tidily

  (Yep; it’ll take an entire hour to cover this - you’ll walk out having completed at least one)

Class 4: Gathering

• - Technique for hand-sewing gathers
• - implementing these to make collars and cuffs
• - Finishing collars and cuffs

Class 5: Detailing, decoration, & review

• - Worked bars to protect slits
• - Side seam reinforcement
• - Closing cuffs
• - Band strings
• - Faggoting
• - Blackwork / whitework
• - Review of material.