1876 tools

[pinkdiamond]

I am not completely convinced the size is correct but I have isolated each tool from:

The science and geometry of dress

by Jackson, Louisa L., Mrs. [from old catalog]

Published 1876

I only know the dart and the skirt tools are correct for printing- as pdfs. The waist and curve… not so sure. I need to really go through the full text to make a bodice pattern to check the placement. Anyway. If you have photoshop you can rescale the files anyway. If you have a pdf viewer choose “poster” as print type and it will automatically print to size.

 

The dart is true, I have seen these only in printed form inside books so had no idea just how big they are. I think in terms of centimeters. The curve feels far too big, I scaled to match the 1,2,3,4 as inches.

These were very hard to figure out. I scaled using the waist length as true to size so is scaled so the distance between each “inch” is one inch.

 

These two were much easier. What I love about the first skirt tool is it does show some care in deciding on the angle of the side of the skirt gores! The rest of the skirt is basically as per “Nora” (as seen in Patterns of Fashion) but this is about the angle from waist to hip, aso that is very cool 🙂

I also spent the noight padding a form to my most ideal “Victorian” shape. So I can make corset and bodice patterns that give a very good exagerated ideal form. Not easy when I have a shape that simply has not been fashionable. Okay. c1480 and say 1550-1610 in Cleves and Spain. But that’s kind of it.But that’s for another post. I need sleep!

Comments

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

I own my great-grandmother's patterning tools, which are somewhat like this. I don't remember what system she used.

[pinkdiamond.livejournal.com]

There are so many systems! I'm obsessed with collecting and trying them all. :) I recently shared a link to a book by the Smithsonian on systems and it includes a number of tools as images so I'm planning on going through them all.

And recently a card sliding system was photographed and I've set that aside to copy and isolate pieces to make a full scale version.

Sadly a lot of these posts are missing- my tag remains but the posts feel through a gap of non-back ups.

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

I own my great-grandmother's patterning tools, which are somewhat like this. I don't remember what system she used.