Medieval patterns?

I’m on mobile so i don’t have a ton of links handy, but if you’re good at resizing or referencing patterns to make new ones, depending on what you need Antique Lilac might be helpful!

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Lomi also has a lot of good ones, and the SD poet shirt i successfully resized to Model Delf/Minifee Boy size, plus very helpful youtube vids! the regular MSD patterns fit minifee with a bit of tailoring depending on the look but she’s been making more minifee patterns, mainly girls atm!

Sewing Patterns for Ball-Jointed Dolls – The World of Ithilear – Home of author Beth Alvarez


boys are so hard to find patterns for it seems, but luckily a lot of their outfits are just piecing shirts+vests+pants+hose together for that time period. breaking it down has helped me

 

Corsets didn't exist in the medieval period, so you don't need to find patterns for those. If you're extending your Renaissance interest into the 17th Century, then "pairs of bodies" start showing up at the tail end of the Elizabethan era and by the late 17th Century they had stays. Corsets didn't show up until the early 19th Century/Regency era (they crossed-over with stays).

For Medieval clothing patterns - I'd suggest Sarah Thursfield's book, The Medieval Tailor's Assistant. which has gridded patterns on the pages, that you enlarge as needed (obviously you'd be enlarging to doll size rather than human size) and it has lots of information about the construction methods for male and female clothing. For the Tudor/Elizabethn era, the same goes for The Tudor Tailor book(s) (available here) by Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm Davies. For later items, it's a bit out of my ususal play-area, but the Patterns of Fashion books by Janet Arnold have gridded patterns taken from surviving garments.

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With historical costumes I usually use a generic pattern that is public domain for humans in gridded form or one that is what I want in whatever doll size and use tips from here to make them fit my doll How to Resize Doll Clothes to Fit Your Doll PDF Instant - Etsy

 

She's still working on getting her site up, but a friend of mine specializes in medieval clothing and does custom patterning drafting. She's done most of the stuff my crew wears, and I've started using the patterns myself.