A Palermo tunic.
Jul. 6th, 2014 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichAll I wanted to do was make a tunic (a surprise tunic made possible by the purchase of twice the amount of fabric I needed to make my night-rail. Most likely I thought I was going to use it to make a chiton). I thought it'd be fun to use the off-set neck opening such as the one on Roger II of Sicily's tunic. And I thought it'd be easy to find examples of the style online.
I was wrong. It does appear in middle-era Russian garb, and in Magyar's clothing (referenced but the research no longer available online), which they seem to have gotten via the Avars, and in some cases this style is called 'middle-period Byzantine' although I could not find a single example of it using that search phrase.
I have now thrown caution to the wind. I shall make my surprise tunic, of the deepest purple someone such as I should never wear, in the style of Roger's tunic and just not worry about it. Perhaps while I'm wearing it at Pennsic someone will bounce up to me to say how delighted they were to see someone wearing "_____style clothing" and I can pick their brains.
It is very, very purple. And my sleeping gown will be of the same fabric. I am actually thinking of using flower-patterned trim on it, because, um, because it is just a nightgown of cotton/linen blend and is more a private garment than one I'd wear out and about. I have two yards of printed-stripes fabric that will make great bits of trim for both of them once I decide which stripes will be sacrificed in order to use the others. I do love striped fabric for trim-making.
I was wrong. It does appear in middle-era Russian garb, and in Magyar's clothing (referenced but the research no longer available online), which they seem to have gotten via the Avars, and in some cases this style is called 'middle-period Byzantine' although I could not find a single example of it using that search phrase.
I have now thrown caution to the wind. I shall make my surprise tunic, of the deepest purple someone such as I should never wear, in the style of Roger's tunic and just not worry about it. Perhaps while I'm wearing it at Pennsic someone will bounce up to me to say how delighted they were to see someone wearing "_____style clothing" and I can pick their brains.
It is very, very purple. And my sleeping gown will be of the same fabric. I am actually thinking of using flower-patterned trim on it, because, um, because it is just a nightgown of cotton/linen blend and is more a private garment than one I'd wear out and about. I have two yards of printed-stripes fabric that will make great bits of trim for both of them once I decide which stripes will be sacrificed in order to use the others. I do love striped fabric for trim-making.
