A simple tunic and a braided belt can give your wedding clothes a rustic feel, much like the medieval peasant dress. Corset-style dresses were also popular in the latter half of that period. Contrary to today’s strapless trend, medieval brides wore long sleeves. Rich fabrics such as burgundy, navy, green, purple, and navy made with velvet or other rich fabrics are recommended.
You can emulate the medieval wedding dress style of a noble or royal gown if you wish to imitate it. A typical medieval bride didn’t have an extravagant wedding dress. The wedding attire of medieval women often reflected what they wore. Make sure your gown is fitting for your vision. You can have a full-blown Medieval themed wedding or incorporate elements from that era in your nuptials. It is fitting that your wedding gown should reflect the theme of your medieval ceremony. Gowns for Medieval Brides in Romantic Style You can combine several elements to make a unique wedding gown. Here you can see the waist line, the seam done by hand to get a good drape of the skirt and because the different layers of fabrics really liked to slip against each other.Ī good view of the laced up sleeves from the sideĪnd a view from the back, while walking in to get married.For a themed wedding, a dress with historical and medieval wedding dress design elements would be a great choice. The dress has a waist seam, so it really is a circular skirt, a regular body with side seams/side lacing and set in sleeves, all in all a simple dress. I really liked how the cream-colored fabric, the silk thread and the pearls matched each other Here is a nice close up on the silk lucet cords, the lacing holes and the matching silk belt with freshwater pearls. After that the lining was added so the strip was hidden on the inside between outer and inner fabrics. This was pinned around the hem, and then sewn with a machine stitch. I also reinforced the hemline of the dress with a thin fabric strip. The overlock really was my best friend when it came to the fraying silk fabrics. I would have liked to sew all our garments by hand, but neither time nor my fingers allowed for it, so edges and some inside seams were made with sewing machines. You can use a zigzag as well, but it is good to prep them in some way.
To prevent the silk fabric from fraying I sew all edges with a overlock. More fabric, this is the other half of the skirt. Yeah, I actually cut out my fancy white silk dress on the floor, with heaps of fabrics laying everywhere. The mock-up was then taken apart and used as a pattern, here is half the skirt on the cream silk.
MEDIEVAL WEDDING DRESSES FULL
Usually I like to improvise a bit, but now I somehow was patience herself while drafting… The skirts in both dresses are based on a full circle of fabric, that is what gives the dresses that magical drape and the deep folds in the fabrics. Around the wrist small pearls are fastened, kind of like a bracelet but easier to wear.įor these dresses I made full mockups in cotton fabric to get a feeling for the pattern drafting and models. The lacing is made with silk thread, the same as I did the lacing holes with, and also the white freshwaterpearl belt. I didn’t want another layer underneath the silk dress, so the thin silk sleeves are just lose sleeves, attached by the arm hole on the dress. The sleeves are unlined, instead I have the thin silk sleeves that is shown underneath. Here you can see some of the effect the petticoat has making the dress skirt stand out a bit instead of hanging down. The silk fabric is a taffeta, and even if that quality is a lot sturdier than other silks, it still needed to be lined for a better draping skirt and a smoother upper body. Over these I have the silk dress, cream-white and lined on the inside with a really thin wool muslin fabric. It never shows, but it adds important stability to the cream silk dress so the skirt drapes the correct way. Over that I also wore a linen petticoat with a strengthened hemline. The linen shift is made tight fitted, with thin shoulder straps and a supportive body, and then a loose skirt. A linen shift, a cream-white silk dress and the velvet silk over dress. I made three different layers for the wedding outfit. I am not going to talk about that today I am going to show you my wedding dresses! Life, dead and bills happens to everyone, as the saying goes. I guess it has been quite the autumn and winter here, I really never post about those parts of life, but I like everyone else have tough periods in life. I kind of have a bad conscience about it too, and I really try to work through all of my drafts, notes and old photos. I am sooo behind writing about my different projects.
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