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Start with a simple project and learn the basics of sewing, seam finishes, threads, needle types and machine feet.
Read everything you can get your hands on about sewing, hit google for Tudor Dress Diary, or Elizabethan Dress Diary and read and read and read. That is how I learned.
Once you have done a few projects and worn them then take a look at the Simplicity Tudor Gown and Underpinnings pattern.
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Thank you for the advice and everything
And its a beautiful gown
Ususally I find that if it's a slubbed silk taffeta, but the slubs are really tiny and not as frequent as you'd see in normal, very textured Dupioni, then they call it Shantung (and charge extra).
I love sock dreams. <3
Did you use the Tudor Tailor for a guide or inspiration or anything, or just your own research?
It really is more like a very cheap shantung, it is very very thin so I flat lined it within an inch of its life.
I used the Tudor Tailor for the gown skirt, in which I cut the back panel of the skirt backwards opps... part of the over sleeves and scaled down the undersleeves to fit. The kirtle underbodice and gown bodice are my own blocks because it was just easier to use them then try and scale the TT pattern down enough. I also used Juan de Alcega's book [link] , Patterns of Fashion, Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law in Henry VIII's England, wills and inventories for a general idea of what was used for gowns and kirtles, Bess Chilver's flickr stream, Tudor paintings and drawings, and looked at many many pictures from Kentwell's reenactments for tiny details like where the sleeve cap would hit on different people and back pleating.