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Making a Quilted Aventail
Sir Rodney:
I used a simple straight stitch to secure the padding in place. The idea here was to mimic stuffed tubes as would’ve been done in period.
Once this was complete, I joined the inner and outer shells at the top (neck opening) with an overcast stitch. Appearance wasn’t critical here as it will be hidden under the leather aventail band.
A fit test with the visor attached was successful. The final step will be to sew the bottom edges of the mail and padded aventail together by hand with heavy duty thread.
Ian:
Looks awesome! I suggest a simple whip stitch to attach the maille. It's secure enough to keep it in place and quick to both attach and remove.
Sir Wolf:
wow that is awesome man. please tell me you saved your patterns lol. something to be really proud of for sure
Sir Rodney:
With two layers of fabric added under the leather aventail support band, I'm unable to string my old red cord through the vervelles. A solid brass wire was used instead.
I started pinning the mail aventail to the padded aventail and discovered that my pattern was too long (the outer diameter was too great) at the NE, NW, SE, and SW points. I'll have to do some last minute creative trimming and sewing before proceeding.
Sir Rodney:
These are the four sections that needed to be trimmed. After the trimming, I simply folded in the raw edges approximately ½” and joined the outer and inner shells with a running stitch. I really didn’t want this exposed stitch on the bottom edge of the padded aventail, but such is life.
The last step was to join the bottom edges of the mail and padded aventails with synthetic waxed leather crafting thread. As Ian suggested above, I used a simple whip stitch.
I’m attending an SCA event tomorrow and hope to have good pictures of the finished product posted soon.
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