![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
From: Textile Conservation and Research. A Documentation of the Textile Department on the 20th Anniversary of the Abegg Foundation.
Bern, Schriften der Abbeg-stiftung, 1988
The following item is a coat housed in the Berne Historical Museum that the folks at the Abegg Foundation believe was originally plundered 'from the Burgundians'. I believe others have documented items about this coat in their own journals in the past, if memory servers there was some alteration of the cut during the coats lifetime - although I cannot recall now if that was mearly from sizing (as described in the attached text) or if the coat was cut down from another garment.
Now I want a dress in this same silk:

"248 Inside view of the man's coat in which allowance was made for growth by means of seams at the waist. The coat was lined with a slightly waxed linen material."
Raincoat?

The 'before-and-after' shot:

The text:


Sadly, this was not one of the items they made a pattern for...
EDIT 10/24/08 The following 'pattern' layout was provided via the article that
jillwheezul was kind enough to share. The article also indicated that the cut and style of the garment was 1530, but that it was probably altered from an earlier garment (at least 1500).

Bern, Schriften der Abbeg-stiftung, 1988
The following item is a coat housed in the Berne Historical Museum that the folks at the Abegg Foundation believe was originally plundered 'from the Burgundians'. I believe others have documented items about this coat in their own journals in the past, if memory servers there was some alteration of the cut during the coats lifetime - although I cannot recall now if that was mearly from sizing (as described in the attached text) or if the coat was cut down from another garment.
Now I want a dress in this same silk:

"248 Inside view of the man's coat in which allowance was made for growth by means of seams at the waist. The coat was lined with a slightly waxed linen material."
Raincoat?

The 'before-and-after' shot:

The text:


Sadly, this was not one of the items they made a pattern for...
EDIT 10/24/08 The following 'pattern' layout was provided via the article that
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)

(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-18 11:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-19 12:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-22 03:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-22 04:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-22 04:30 pm (UTC)*smacks forehead*
Today has decided to suck on my ability to mulit-task. Damnitalltohell...
*bats eyelashes*
Can you share the article jillwheezul, or perhaps the source if you don't have the ability to share your copy.
Danke!
(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-23 04:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-23 05:09 am (UTC)Thank you honey!