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Author Topic: Houpellandes, jackets and doublettes Ulfgar Member Member # 225 posted 06-21-2002 01:21 AM                Does anyone know the secret to the amazingly neat pleats I keep seeing in pictures from the fifteenth century? I have seen somewhere (will try to find it again) a picture of a man with his houpellande opened revealing tapes apparently holding the pleats in place. Has anyone tried this? Has anyone found another method that works well? Also it seems that the cloth used in these pictures is either very heavy or very stiff to make the pleats stay so rigidly in place. Any theories? Ulfgar -------------------- Yes, these are bruises from fighting.That's right, I'm enlightened! Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Cornelius Member Member # 216 posted 07-03-2002 01:29 PM                go have a look at the jakets that Lee and Ian have done - they used the tape method at it works well but the fabric is a bit too light.... Mr.C Registered: Sep 2001  |  IP: Logged Woodcrafter Member Member # 197 posted 07-07-2002 02:35 AM                   Perhaps they were only painted that way? -------------------- Woodcrafter 14th c. Woodworking Registered: Jul 2001  |  IP: Logged Tanne New Member Member # 337 posted 07-08-2002 03:24 AM                If you use a heavy wool and throw it through the machine, then sew the pleats to a band on the inside they drape pretty much exactly like the pictures. The thing I would improve would be to take a dog brush to the wool after you felt it slightly. (I only ever did the dog brush to a hood, the thought of having to do it to a houpelande's worth of fabric is daunting... Tanne Registered: Jul 2002  |  IP: Logged

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