How to Make an 18th Century Shift | Sewing by Hand

Playing Costube's badge game at home this weekend? There is a code hidden somewhere in this video! In this video tutorial I will walk you through how to hand sew your very own shift appropriate for the 1770s. Shift Kit https://willoughbyandrose.com/collect... Master Schedule and Program for CoCoVid https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kqbv... ---- SOURCES: 1. Instructions for Cutting out Apparel for the Poor https://archive.org/details/b2875606x 2. Garsault's L'art de la Lingere https://archive.org/details/b30448992 3. Patterns of Fashion 5 by the School of Historical Dress http://theschoolofhistoricaldress.org... 4. Burnley & Trowbridge's Hand Sewing Tutorial Series for their slightly different gathered sleeve technique    • Short Skills Tutorial: Gathering Shirt to ...   5. Many of Jean-Baptiste Greuze's paintings (including all three included in the video) "The Broken Vessel" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "The Complain of the Watch" "Indolence" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Ba... 6. Many, many extant shifts (but here are just a few) https://manchesterartgallery.org/coll... http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O... https://emuseum.history.org/objects/4... 7. Extant shift in my collection 8. Years of trial and error, honestly. Also I can't put screen caps of newspaper articles here but I'd be happy to share them if you'd like. If you haven’t already, please check out http://www.larsdatter.com/18c/index.html because if I ever forget where I’ve seen something, there’s a great chance there’s a link to it on there. ---- Other Shift Tutorials/Instructions: Morgan Donner's Shirt/Shift video will show you how to drape a neckline on yourself    • Making Basic Medieval Underwear   Sharon Burnston’s Website (includes some great tutorials on infant clothing as well as shifts) http://www.sharonburnston.com ---- Excellent shift linen from Burnley & Trowbridge https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/coll... Heat sensitive pens: https://amzn.to/2Dfn4s3 Buy me a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/willoughbyandrose Follow me!   / willoughbyandrose     / willoughbyandrose   My website https://willoughbyandrose.com Music is from epidemic sound and the YouTube audio library.