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#linen

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Sini Tuulia

I have put on the sleeves! Finished the inside seam with just the overlock stitch on my normal sewing machine, as I'm going to do the buttonholes and buttons by hand, and only have so much elbow. Looks like a blouse, now. The circa 1905 sleeves are so nice. I tried it on and it felt like wearing a cloud, also!

A top down view of a mostly finished looking white linen blouse on the convenient surface of a metal wire rack for clothes. The sleeves have been folded a bit to fit them into frame, like the shirt is clutching at its pearls. The nearly insubstantial, thin fabric flows down from the shoulder in puffy sleeves that narrow down to a simple cuff, there's three decorative tucks running down the front, and a rather fancy and full ruffle both sides of the button placket. A narrow standing collar and a shaped waistband with a sort of dovetail notch at the front complete the style, which looks fairly historical but also just on the edge of something you recognise as modern, being Edwardian. An air purifier cylinder, some quilts and warm toned parquet in the background.
#Sewing#HistoryBounding#Linen
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jaja

"Finnish-ing School" teableau for 04/30/25

The little vintage plate was made by Arabia Finland, depicting a traditional costume of Häme, Finland. There is a series of five of these dishes showing different areas of the country but I only have this one.

Tea tableau in the style of folk art, with traditional Northern European patterns on china, embroidered linens, and a decorative miniature plate of a Finnish woman in the costume of Hame, Finland. The tea selection is missing because I forgot to include it.
#Tea#ForgotTheTea#Teableau
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Sini Tuulia

It is... Such a nice linen, though. Almost useless, but so pretty! Modern linen very rarely is as fine as it historically was, and while this also isn't it's at least the correct weight and drape. It's so soft and has a slight sheen!

A photo showing how sheer and light the linen fabric is. White and shimmery, it shows through the details of Sini's hand behind it. There is variation in the thread weight and thickness, but at a glance and without focusing on it overmuch it looks incredibly nice and finely made. This is almost peak linen, these days. Sini's myriad silver rings glitter prettily, also.
More fabric, manipulated in such a way that the raking sideways light plays across the surface of it. It is very very smooth and has a slight shimmer and shine to it, like a bit of snow with sunlight hitting it. Quite lovely. It would feel light, weightless, soft and smooth to the skin, though with fingertips you could feel the slight texture of the latticework of the woven fibres.
#Sewing#Linen
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Sini Tuulia

Some of yesterday's sewing! I have accomplished... Most of two sleeves. Turned a little hem on the cuff slits, added a tiny little reinforcement square on them because this linen is so fine. So fine. Probably won't last incredibly long in use, but then again it won't be a super practical shirt so won't be worn quite as much... The pattern is the one I drafted according to the 1905 manual, again.

A very close up photo of the very tiny little hem hand sewn onto the slit on what is to become a blouse sleeve. The turn is some millimetres wide, and there is a tiny little square of folded up fabric hand sewn onto the slit end, where there will be some strain. The square has been flipped on the diagonal, and one corner has been folded over from the right side to the back. The fabric is a very delicate linen with some thread variation, sheer enough to see the shadow and colour of Sini's pink fingertips through it, as she is holding up the tiny detail for the camera.
Two slightly strange shaped sleeves, of the same fine white linen, laid out on a beige wood grain desk. The sleeve seam is not at the very centre of the scoop that attaches to the armpit, but a bit to the front. This means that in a very soft and fine fabric the rigidity and added tension of the sleeve seam will not drag at the curve of arm and elbow, but naturally fall below the arm. The little sleeve slits are hanging open, not being attached to cuffs yet, with their little reinforcement squares. The sleeve seam has been done in a narrow flat felled hem, slightly wobbly.
#Sewing#Linen#HistoricalSewing
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Sini Tuulia

The white linen saga, where I bought four one metre pieces of white linen of the same weight, to compare them, and see which one I liked most. Oh and also randomly received five one metre pieces, but anyway. 😄 Here they are, currently washed but not ironed, in case I don't get around to it before it gets too dark for good photos. They're so different!

A close up photo of the folded edges of five different white linen fabrics, all stacked up and fanned out like a... fan, I suppose. They all seem about the same thickness from the fold, but the amount and way they are wrinkled and crumpling are different between each fabric. Some have thicker thread, some finer, and they are woven with different amounts of space between each thread. Very minute variations in the colour as well, going from a natural creamy white to warm white to crisp snow white. The two top ones seem like they might be the same fabric but twice. The densest and softest looking one, like the fibres in the thread are more round and full, is the second to lowest one, the middle being the sparsest, and the top ones being very finely woven thin thread. Sini's pink fingertips holding the lowest one.
#Linen#Sewing
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Sini Tuulia

My experiment in ordering four different white linen fabrics from the same shop has yielded these results:
All of them are minutely but noticeably different and I was able to pick out a favourite for different uses despite all of them being some of the most beautiful fabrics I've ever handled. I have ranked them, hopefully without mixing them up!

#Sewing#Linen
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Sini Tuulia

Sunlight photos of the night dress sewing I did yesterday. Took the top of sleeve, arm's eyes and yoke section off my basic blouse pattern and then just cut a series of rectangles and straight lines. Sleeve slits by hand, some quick pintucks with the twin needle and overlocking with the viscose thread... And now about to relax with minutely hemming the rest of this ruffle by hand.

A top down photo of the upper yoke sections of a dress, with pintucks sewn onto the white linen fabric with a machine needle. It creates tidy little ridges with two lines of stitching, and is a fairly subtle but lovely little effect. Here the lines of it absolutely do not match at the shoulder seam. Sini's hand holding onto the yoke, with a mass of white linen in the background.
Close up photo of the sleeve slits. They have been slashed into the fabric and the fabric edges have then been rolled to a very very narrow hem and sewn on by hand with tidy whipstitch, with buttonhole stitch reinforcing the top of the slit, to stop it from tearing up into the sleeve itself.
A very very close up of the overlocking. It's narrow and done in white thread that has an almost silk-like sparkle and shine, and the loops of thread doing the overlock look both soft and structured. A very short stitch seam just below it, the overlocking is just for seam allowance finishing.
A close up of a small piece of the fine linen fabric, so fine you can almost see through it, getting hemmed by hand. Sini's pink fingers that are holding onto it are casting a shadow through it and two soft strands of embroidery cotton form the even small whipstitch holding the hem. The hem itself is maybe whopping three and a half millimetres when finished, so quite small. Sini's myriad silver rings look rather sparkly and nice, as well.
#Sewing#HandSewing#Linen
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Sini Tuulia

Notes on prewashing linen and cotton lace: Both will shrink in the first wash, linen more so. If you're putting either on a garment you're going to put in the washing machine, you should wash it before you do. One of those little basket cage bag things for washing brassieres is great, just unspool the whole length of it in there (6m fits fine in a small one) and wash with whatever else. Then gently flatten it out, and iron it hot when it's still wet or damp!

#Linen#Sewing
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La compagnie des petits lutins
3éme jour, j'ai toujours pas abandonné

je vous présente une chemise que j'ai fais l'année dernière, avec du tissus en lin trouvé a Emmaüs. j'ai repris les explications de bernadette banner pour faire une chemise "de pirate"

Je l'ai cousue entièrement a la main avec du fil de lin. après l'avoir un peu portée je pense qu'il faut que je lui agrandisse l’emmanchure parce que en l'état ça me fait mal aux épaules.

Récemment j'ai fait une version valentina du patron, il est pas testé mais si ça vous interesse je peux vous le donner.

#couture #pirate #sewing #linen
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Sini Tuulia

In addition to mostly resting and trying to get my life back together after simply too many small disasters, I've made another shirt out of the birthday gift linen. It doesn't look like much just on the hanger, but I cannot be invested in changing from a clean shirt to another clean shirt at this time. 😆 It's pretty nice though!

A sort of amorphous looking blob of lovely black linen fabric on a wooden clothes hanger which in turn is hung on a door. It looks quite crisp and nice, with sharp collar points, buttons spaced out in groups of two and about a dozen of them on the front. The buttonholes look nice and flat. There is much fullness at the very top of sleeve, gathered to the arm's eye, and some at the elbow where it is held by a slightly taller cuff with two buttons. They're not quite the same spacing as the buttons of the front, but close enough for the idea. It looks like a pretty professionally made shirt, and the fabric flows nicely.
Close up photo of the groups of buttons, held by a sort of bloodless pale white hand. The buttons are a very dark brown, almost black, shiny and separated from the black of the fabric by their texture. They have been tidily sewn on by hand. The fabric is a dense, slightly shimmery and very sleekly sturdy plain weave, with the very recognisable structure of a linen fabric. It looks lovely.
Close up of the sleeve cuff, held again by a bloodless white hand, now with myriad silver rings. Two buttons hold the cuff. There's a bunch of wispy cat hair over everything, but it looks nice. The cuff when buttoned closed looks both soft and structurally sound. The fullness drafted into the fabric of the elbow has been neatly gathered onto the cuff, the direction of the threads in the fabric making subtle little patterns.
#Sewing#Linen
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