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Easy Veil Hems

 Hello Beautiful Humans!

Thank you for your patience this week with my technical difficulties. I promise it will be worth it because I was able to make some more edits to my video to make it more fun. This is a project I am making to go with a new medieval dress that one of my friends is making, and I thought a few of you might be interested in how I stitch these tiny hems on silk veils. My secret with the fabric is particularly flimsy is starch. Starch is a material that is available in Europe by the 16th century and is used to set riffs, and hide glue was also being used to stiffen buckram for interlining garments and hats. I'm going to call the idea of starching difficult fabric for sewing historically plausible, even if they would have been cooking starch rather than using a convenient spray bottle. the Elizabethan Costume Group on Facebook has lots of great information in its archives on starches and buckram if you want a deeper dive. This video was not sponsored by Target or Flawless Starch, they just happened to be the place and brand I found. Please follow instructions you are given on any starch you use and test it on a fabric scrap if you are not familiar with it. Roberta Orsi Landini discusses the specific types of artificer making dressing accessories in her books about Eleonora di Toledo and Cosimo I de Medici, Moda a Firenze 1540-1580. I highly recommend both volumes if you are looking for more historical background on who was making veils in renaissance Florence. For more information on medieval rolled hems in archeological finds I would recommend Textiles and Clothing 1150 to 1450 from The Museum of London. Thank you for watching and I hope I was able to help you hand sew your chiffon, and hand sew hems for your next veil. Tag me on Instagram if you would like me to show off your new hems or projects inspired by my videos.

Bisou Bisou, Maridith
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