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Hedeby Underdress

8/15/2013

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In the past I have always used the "SCA standard" rectangular cut tunic pattern for my Viking underdresses.  It is pretty much the Birka cut tunic from Mistress Þóra Sharptooth's site here:  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/viktunic.html

As you can see in the photo to the left, this cut of tunics works very well with my aprondresses.  Despite already loving this style garment, I was curious to try the Hedeby style underdress as well.  I most often choose a very fitted Hedeby style aprondress (curved side seams, potential for darts) and wanted to explore a possible complimentary underlayer.

The Hedeby underdress has set-in sleeves.  Ironic given that when I started in the SCA I was told that early period garments never had set-in sleeves and that rectangular construction was the One Right Way to make a tunic.  Set-in sleeves, I was told, was appropriate only for much later periods.


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The Hedeby style tunic dispels some of those early myths.  There was clearly an armscythe as well as close shaping along the body.  I finally set about making dresses in this matter this past spring.

I started by taking the image of the extant fragment to the left and blowing it up and cutting my first mock-up.  After two more rounds, with minor modifications each, I had a comfortably fitting body and moved on to tackle the sleeves.

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As you can see on the above right, to get the curve for the top of the sleeve, I took my front and back bodice (stitched together at the shoulders) and laid them on fabric to trace the curve for the sleeve.  I smoothed out the in the center.  The sleeve needed only a bit of easing into the arm hole and my final mock-up was complete.

Below you can see images of the standard rectangular cut tunic (brown) and a Hedeby style tunic (green).   The Hedeby one, in this case, is actually sized a little larger than the Birka style dress.  I made one a similar size, but it was so dark in color it did not photograph well.
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9/30/2013 07:16:31 pm

I made one a similar size, but it was so dark in color it did not photograph well.

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