I love the technical jargon in this project. "The most sticky out bits" and "squidge" are such a wonderful contrast to the 308 utterly precise French knots that my needlework teacher insisted on in my formative years...
@jillatherton4660 - I so agree. The simplicity and cleverness of Medieval garments makes them so very elegant. Forget brocaded skirts and fancy stitched ruffs!
This looks like a lovely way to use up remaining fabric scraps from bigger projects! Lovely, thank you very much. (Also I wanted to thank you for the channel overall, I've had the best august ever making cord/yarn out of nettles since discovering your videos!)
@jasminv8653 - If you make a batch of them, but don't need to use them as such quite yet, you could use them as decorative fabric beads on garments or strung as fabric beads on a neck cord.
Mess in the background, stays in the background ;) (sides which, that’s not THAT much of a mess….nothing on mine lol) Thanks so much for the video Sally. I’m one of those people who hand dyed with lichens when I was about 12 maybe? Learned to spin a few years after , and had a go at tapestry weaving using a home made frame loom around the same time. I also tablet weave, knit, sew, crochet and tat, and have done a little Armenian needle lace as well as english needle lace. For many years I gathered windfall apples from abandoned orchards in my area and made jelly with them (all gone now, the sites have been bulldozed and built on mores the pity) I’ve also gotten into silversmithing and wire work….in other words, I’ve never met a craft I didn’t like or have a go at at varying levels of skill, or lack thereof lol, and I love the way you show all kinds of things, how our ancestors didn’t let a lack of fancy tools stop em(right now my niddy noddy is cardboard, and I spin on a spindle) and just how achievable so much of this is for anyone
Genius! These would look great on modern garments, too, and no more buying those little metal buttons you cover with fabric, that never snaps on evenly (for me, at least!). You could even make different shapes, with a little experimentation. Wonderful!
I do them nearly the same way, but I use circles, I stich further out towards the edge, and I make TWO rounds of circle stitching before i sow into the 'most sticky out bits'. I'll show you mine tomorrow. I most often use silk as thread for strength.
This is wonderful! Thank you!! Homeschool mum here. We are reading through historical books, and I am hoping to get my kids to sew/ make historical items (clothing, weapons-boys😉). I thought the girls could make the various period clothing for their dolls. This gives it an authentic touch. Thank you so much!!♥️
Oh my goodness, what a magical experience! I hope you have a wonderful time! Great tutorial too - not just the how-to, but the fact that in all my years of sewing, that's the first time anyone has pointed out the obvious-now-you-mention-it trick for spacing buttons out.
This is so impressive how much thoughts and effort is put in every piece of clothing and the outcome is so pretty. Hope you had fun in the year 1412. Looking forward for more footage from this special place.
Thank you Sally. That's going to make things easier when I make my london hood pattern ready for winter. Loved the complete outfit. That Danish museum looks fun and interesting. Hope you have a great time.
I was looking for plastic free buttons that go in the washing machine (Metal is good but it can be expensive and I like to have a variety of options) and these are perfect! I followed a different tutorial before coming here but I'll have to try this one too, it looks even simpler than the first. I messed up the first button I made but it still came out very strong. I bet I could use a fabric with a pattern and make a really fun button! Thank you!
Ah, this was so good!! Fascinating AND of practical use even in this modern age, really well explained! Thank you and I hope you have a wonderful time in the year 1412, haha!
Thank you for the video. I suppose cloth buttons would be a lot easier to make yourself than a wooden button? At least judging by the speed at which you were able to whip one up. Especially when you use scraps of cloth saved from various projects it seems very efficient.
This is more or less how to, if you are the crocheter/knitter in your family and people come asking if you can make their small children hats with giant faux fur pom poms for reasons unknown to you, how to make a giant faux fur pom pom. Just keep going for the sticky outty bits. ^_^ Hope you have/did have a lovely time!
i want to know more about actual 14th century examples and how we know that this is the technique that was used. it's fascinating to me when ancient garments are found in good enough condition that we can see how they dealt with things like closures and practical concerns of fit and utility as well as decoration. i made viking garb for a play once using a book about a dig at a place called Thjorsberg. i work in theater so i'm not going to hand sew unless i have to but getting details like this right is sometimes helpful for the overall look.
I wish I could come by and say hi, but it's 2 1/2 hours each way. It's a really cool place, I went there maybe 10 years ago or so. But maybe you even already went home again.
I just found this channel and I absolutely adore it. Your hobbies and sheer joy of reveling in their making sing to my heart and inspire. Thank you for these!! Time to go bingeing through hedge-bothering vids- I found my first stalk of stinging nettles yesterday! They bit my hand but now I've got plans to get them back for it by making them thread~!
using a square piece of fabric instead of round and stuffing is genius! How long was this style of 'bobble button' common? I am struggling with Dorset buttons currently.
Beautiful, as always. Thank you. When did buttons start taking the place of lacings? I would love to see your buttonholes. So much time goes into a truly handmade garment - I can’t imagine the distress of soiling, tearing, or (heaven forbid) losing a button! The care taken of ‘real’ clothing must have been something. My husband has oil paint (and holes) on everything he wears. I would be a shrew of wifely seamstress!
thanks for the lesson on button making I am going to start making them soon. I didn't notice you making a knot at the end of the button after you wrapped the thread around the 'shank' of the button followed by two more stitches. and will you have a lesson on button hole making? My mind will have something with which to entertain itself while I unpack boxes.
I wish I had a time machine, my goodness. Your videos are always so fascinating and now I really want to do more research into when modern-day crochet and knitting became truly recognisable. That said, I definitely recognised the equivalent of a magic circle being used in many of your fibrecraft projects.
@@SallyPointer Oh wow, thank you for the (very speedy) response! For some reason I would have thought crochet was older but that's amazing to learn. I have a lot of research to do and rabbit holes to chase. Thank you again. 😊
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover watch out when researching older knitting, a lot of researchers can't tell the difference between nialbinding and knitting. They look sort of the same if you don't actually knit. Also many call any kind of looped fabric "knitting " so sprang, netting, nialbinding all is referred to as "knitting " . The absolute earliest knitting was found in coptic Egypt and from sometime in the 11th century I believe or maybe earlier, I am not good with remembering numbers. There is a child's sock from 3rd or 4th century but it is nialbinding.
@@lenabreijer1311 Thank you so much for the extra info and warnings. Considering how many people even now can't tell the difference between knitting and crocheting, it doesn't surprise me!
Fantastic tutorial, clearly and accessibly explained, as always, thank you! If you have a moment, could we hear a bit about the apron you were wearing with the full outfit at the end? I've been trying to reconstruct something similar from manuscript evidence to go with my 14th c. kit (I MUST stop wiping muddy/sooty hands on my smock!), but I haven't yet settled on the actual garment dimensions, etc. :)
I had to take a dog out so I missed a bit of the end. Is there a link to show us how you made the buttonholes? Is it just a slit and teeny tiny blanket stitch to seal the raw edges? I’m a fan of button loops for little round buttons but that evidently isn’t historically accurate. Also the button holes will provide a little overlap, keeping wrists warmer. Jan
If I want a bottom stem should i start off with more of a rectangle shape to have exess at the bottom? Or how could i get more at the bottom? I want to attempt making my own flexi button (prym) so I assume I need a bottom bit to attatch it to? Veeeery excited to try this regardless. It seems very easy and very similar to my workflow. I have never followed a pattern in my life but made so many things still. I like going with the flow
Hi! For a strudier button did the ancestors cover with cloth a small hard object like a flat rounded river or lake stones, or mussel shells, or pieces of antler, or bits of wood? I've seen the carved bits of antler, ivory, and wood used directly as buttons.
My sewing friends in the SCA (medieval organization) would probably love to do this. Do you have any other links to source materials we could look up? I'm way over here in the Seattle region, so we just don't know which museums to look at for these things over there, and search engines aren't always reliable for finding the contents of smaller museums online, unless we happen to get lucky. (Most of what I tend to find is How To stuff, not source materials for actual examples.)
Oh, there's loads. You could contact the SCA members of Nordmark and Aarnimetsä (ie. Sweden and Finland). They know what's it about and they'd love to help out. I haven't been active in the organisation for close to 18yrs, so I'm out of touch on exactly _who_ to contact. Pennsic and Estrella used to be favourite events to visit in the US, and if you have the possibility to travel to Europe I'd recommend the Double Wars. (Just check on them first - as I said I haven't been active in years. That there is activity I know; this is apparently how Nordmark spent the height of the pandemic ruclips.net/video/kh-i7-UFotc/видео.html )
Depends whether you want it based on extant garments or not. I'm not aware of any medieval examples made that way, but for a more modern interpretation anything goes.
I love the technical jargon in this project. "The most sticky out bits" and "squidge" are such a wonderful contrast to the 308 utterly precise French knots that my needlework teacher insisted on in my formative years...
Technical jargon is very important ;)
The authentic term would be ‘ye olde styykyye outte byyts’ 😂
After searching and searching i found your video.........i am glad i did....amazing exactly what i was looking for
'Primitive' stuff, always elegant and clever, from bows and arrows to baskets and nets, and buttons of course, TY Sally. 5* channel.
@jillatherton4660 - I so agree. The simplicity and cleverness of Medieval garments makes them so very elegant. Forget brocaded skirts and fancy stitched ruffs!
This looks like a lovely way to use up remaining fabric scraps from bigger projects! Lovely, thank you very much. (Also I wanted to thank you for the channel overall, I've had the best august ever making cord/yarn out of nettles since discovering your videos!)
Really pleased you are finding it useful :)
@jasminv8653 - If you make a batch of them, but don't need to use them as such quite yet, you could use them as decorative fabric beads on garments or strung as fabric beads on a neck cord.
Love those sticky-out bits!!! Squidge is a great Anglo Saxon word, too! hah! I hope you have fun in Denmark--make us a video!
THANK YOU! I am currently working on the London Hood pattern by Opus Elenae. Seeing the buttons made is just great.
Got my pattern ready to go :)
I was just thinking/wondering what I could use instead of a modern button and came across your video. Thank you. The possibilities are endless!
Thank you so much for the lesson! So simple and elegant.
Mess in the background, stays in the background ;) (sides which, that’s not THAT much of a mess….nothing on mine lol) Thanks so much for the video Sally. I’m one of those people who hand dyed with lichens when I was about 12 maybe? Learned to spin a few years after , and had a go at tapestry weaving using a home made frame loom around the same time. I also tablet weave, knit, sew, crochet and tat, and have done a little Armenian needle lace as well as english needle lace. For many years I gathered windfall apples from abandoned orchards in my area and made jelly with them (all gone now, the sites have been bulldozed and built on mores the pity) I’ve also gotten into silversmithing and wire work….in other words, I’ve never met a craft I didn’t like or have a go at at varying levels of skill, or lack thereof lol, and I love the way you show all kinds of things, how our ancestors didn’t let a lack of fancy tools stop em(right now my niddy noddy is cardboard, and I spin on a spindle) and just how achievable so much of this is for anyone
So pretty and simple with the potential for elaborate decorations over the top from gold work, embroidery couple of bullion roses or a daisy.
How very satisfying to learn to make one simple, little thing that can be used in so many ways. Button, decorative bobble, head for a tiny rag doll...
Genius! These would look great on modern garments, too, and no more buying those little metal buttons you cover with fabric, that never snaps on evenly (for me, at least!). You could even make different shapes, with a little experimentation. Wonderful!
Oohhh, I can just imagine a bit of felt where you felt the button into shape afterwards!! Hehehe!
@@saphirestarr9952 One would look so cute on top of a beret!
What lovely and yet simple buttons! Thank you so much. You have a lovely way of teaching. The students you are with are lucky to have you!
Your clothing is so beautifully done, it is simply beautiful!
Simple, practical, always matching the garment and easy to follow along at home. Thank you
Beautifully magical mediaeval! Curviest square iv seen!
Beautiful medieval gown with exquisite little buttons !
You are wonderful Sally Pointer!
0:43 That blue! Wow!
Thank you so much Sally...Your lessons feel like glory days from the past .
I do them nearly the same way, but I use circles, I stich further out towards the edge, and I make TWO rounds of circle stitching before i sow into the 'most sticky out bits'. I'll show you mine tomorrow. I most often use silk as thread for strength.
I love the mess in the background. I love the dress.
Every single one of your videos brings a smile to my face 🙂 thank you
This is wonderful! Thank you!! Homeschool mum here. We are reading through historical books, and I am hoping to get my kids to sew/ make historical items (clothing, weapons-boys😉). I thought the girls could make the various period clothing for their dolls. This gives it an authentic touch. Thank you so much!!♥️
Oh my goodness, what a magical experience! I hope you have a wonderful time! Great tutorial too - not just the how-to, but the fact that in all my years of sewing, that's the first time anyone has pointed out the obvious-now-you-mention-it trick for spacing buttons out.
I really love your videos. They are safe journeys to the past.
This is so impressive how much thoughts and effort is put in every piece of clothing and the outcome is so pretty. Hope you had fun in the year 1412. Looking forward for more footage from this special place.
Thank you for this video Sally! Also working on a medieval hood project with Opus Elenae as a group sew along and this will be so helpful!
Beautiful transformation! Hugs
What mess??? Love your videos, even if I never get to doing stuff 😊
i always look forward to your videos, especially to learn fun new skills
Love your dress
Am enjoying all your content and especially looking forward to the arrival of your book on cosmetics and perfumes. Thank You so much
Oh my, what delight!!
It's like a Suffolk puff/yo-yo! So cute. TFS!
This is one of those projects that is best worked on the bus on the way to work.
simple and wonderful. Thank you
Wonderful outfit
This was one of the funnest videos on sewing an item. Thank you!
Thank you so much for showing how to make these. Definitely going to give it a go 😊
😍😍😍 Wonderful tutorial...Love it
Fabulous!
Lovely! You make me want to make another hood with buttons, just because of this video. And the setting in Denmark is gorgeous!
It brought me great joy to find your latest vid after opening RUclips.
Nice little demo.
This channel is a true goldmine
Thank you Sally. That's going to make things easier when I make my london hood pattern ready for winter. Loved the complete outfit.
That Danish museum looks fun and interesting. Hope you have a great time.
I remember watching a Jack Hargreaves, Out of Town episode where spent time wit a woman making cloth buttons. Thanks for the 'how to'
I was looking for plastic free buttons that go in the washing machine (Metal is good but it can be expensive and I like to have a variety of options) and these are perfect! I followed a different tutorial before coming here but I'll have to try this one too, it looks even simpler than the first. I messed up the first button I made but it still came out very strong. I bet I could use a fabric with a pattern and make a really fun button! Thank you!
Archaeology and sewing...my two almost most favourite things ever! (Second only to family 😍) Thanks for sharing, it never gets old!
Ah, this was so good!! Fascinating AND of practical use even in this modern age, really well explained! Thank you and I hope you have a wonderful time in the year 1412, haha!
These look so good and You have given me an Idea for a Project
Thank You For The Tip On Placing The Buttons Evenly 🌸
Thank you very much. This will definitely help for my mid 14th C. Cotehardie
I love your energy!!!! And big thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you Sally, this will be very useful. I may try making button loops instead of button holes though
Loops are a lot easier than button holes, for my blanket-stitch impaired fingers!
Wonderful video! Enjoy your visit to the 1400s. Wish I was there with you. Watching from New Jersey USA.
Thank you!
Lovely
Absolutely wonderful!!
Amazing stuff 👏
Wonderful outfit! Enjoy!
Wow…just fabulous!! And so clever :)
spectacular. goodwife, thank you for showing up how you do it.
great art work
Thank you for the video. I suppose cloth buttons would be a lot easier to make yourself than a wooden button? At least judging by the speed at which you were able to whip one up. Especially when you use scraps of cloth saved from various projects it seems very efficient.
Probably more durable when washing too.
This is more or less how to, if you are the crocheter/knitter in your family and people come asking if you can make their small children hats with giant faux fur pom poms for reasons unknown to you, how to make a giant faux fur pom pom. Just keep going for the sticky outty bits. ^_^
Hope you have/did have a lovely time!
i want to know more about actual 14th century examples and how we know that this is the technique that was used. it's fascinating to me when ancient garments are found in good enough condition that we can see how they dealt with things like closures and practical concerns of fit and utility as well as decoration. i made viking garb for a play once using a book about a dig at a place called Thjorsberg. i work in theater so i'm not going to hand sew unless i have to but getting details like this right is sometimes helpful for the overall look.
Have a look at the fragments from medieval London for starters, there's some good examples held at the MoL
I wish I could come by and say hi, but it's 2 1/2 hours each way. It's a really cool place, I went there maybe 10 years ago or so. But maybe you even already went home again.
Still here for another two weeks!
Lovely work. Thanks Sally.
Thank you for this video and for your amazing explanation. :) I´ve found it really helpful as I try to make a kirtle for my first medieval con. :)
Sally you always are an inspiration.
I love your outfit!
Sooo interesting...thanks for sharing...have fun !!! 🙂
Well now I know how to make Medieval Cloth Buttons !
New subscriber. Loving this stuff. Great hood.
I just found this channel and I absolutely adore it. Your hobbies and sheer joy of reveling in their making sing to my heart and inspire. Thank you for these!! Time to go bingeing through hedge-bothering vids- I found my first stalk of stinging nettles yesterday! They bit my hand but now I've got plans to get them back for it by making them thread~!
Looks very good!
what a wonderful colour :)
using a square piece of fabric instead of round and stuffing is genius! How long was this style of 'bobble button' common? I am struggling with Dorset buttons currently.
So beautiful great for decorating too
Beautiful, as always. Thank you. When did buttons start taking the place of lacings? I would love to see your buttonholes. So much time goes into a truly handmade garment - I can’t imagine the distress of soiling, tearing, or (heaven forbid) losing a button! The care taken of ‘real’ clothing must have been something. My husband has oil paint (and holes) on everything he wears. I would be a shrew of wifely seamstress!
thanks for the lesson on button making I am going to start making them soon. I didn't notice you making a knot at the end of the button after you wrapped the thread around the 'shank' of the button followed by two more stitches. and will you have a lesson on button hole making? My mind will have something with which to entertain itself while I unpack boxes.
Two or three little stitches at the end is as good as a knot, as long as it won't wriggle free it's all ok
@@SallyPointer thanks, you can probably tell I'm an inexperienced stitcher....I did not know that.
I wish I had a time machine, my goodness. Your videos are always so fascinating and now I really want to do more research into when modern-day crochet and knitting became truly recognisable. That said, I definitely recognised the equivalent of a magic circle being used in many of your fibrecraft projects.
In the UK, it's fourteenth century for knitting and nineteenth century for crochet!
@@SallyPointer Oh wow, thank you for the (very speedy) response! For some reason I would have thought crochet was older but that's amazing to learn. I have a lot of research to do and rabbit holes to chase. Thank you again. 😊
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover watch out when researching older knitting, a lot of researchers can't tell the difference between nialbinding and knitting. They look sort of the same if you don't actually knit. Also many call any kind of looped fabric "knitting " so sprang, netting, nialbinding all is referred to as "knitting " . The absolute earliest knitting was found in coptic Egypt and from sometime in the 11th century I believe or maybe earlier, I am not good with remembering numbers. There is a child's sock from 3rd or 4th century but it is nialbinding.
@@lenabreijer1311 Thank you so much for the extra info and warnings. Considering how many people even now can't tell the difference between knitting and crocheting, it doesn't surprise me!
@@lenabreijer1311 with a name like yours you must be a knitter (breier is the Dutch word for knitter)
I cant find buttons at walmart and im not buying bulk lmao, ty for the simple lesson
Fantastic tutorial, clearly and accessibly explained, as always, thank you!
If you have a moment, could we hear a bit about the apron you were wearing with the full outfit at the end? I've been trying to reconstruct something similar from manuscript evidence to go with my 14th c. kit (I MUST stop wiping muddy/sooty hands on my smock!), but I haven't yet settled on the actual garment dimensions, etc. :)
Sure, I could use a spare, I'll do a quick tutorial when I get a chance
I had to take a dog out so I missed a bit of the end. Is there a link to show us how you made the buttonholes? Is it just a slit and teeny tiny blanket stitch to seal the raw edges?
I’m a fan of button loops for little round buttons but that evidently isn’t historically accurate. Also the button holes will provide a little overlap, keeping wrists warmer.
Jan
That's right, I'll do another video sometime but they are really simple to do
I love your medieval clothes. Hope to see more of the Middelaltercentre. Is it like an open-air-museum?
It is indeed
If I want a bottom stem should i start off with more of a rectangle shape to have exess at the bottom?
Or how could i get more at the bottom? I want to attempt making my own flexi button (prym) so I assume I need a bottom bit to attatch it to?
Veeeery excited to try this regardless. It seems very easy and very similar to my workflow. I have never followed a pattern in my life but made so many things still. I like going with the flow
I think that's exactly right, start with a square and trim off what you don't need after gathering it to shape
Hi!
For a strudier button did the ancestors cover with cloth a small hard object like a flat rounded river or lake stones, or mussel shells, or pieces of antler, or bits of wood?
I've seen the carved bits of antler, ivory, and wood used directly as buttons.
The medieval cloth buttons I've seen have all been just the cloth
Love your videos
Did you already do a video on making button holes?
Not yet!I'll do another video sometime but they are really simple to do
Love the buttons! I'd also love to make a dress like that; is there a tutorial you could recommend?
It's broadly based on the cut of the extant dresses from Herjolfnes
How do you think the sewing needles would have been made in those times ?
There's both drilled eye and split eye types known
My sewing friends in the SCA (medieval organization) would probably love to do this. Do you have any other links to source materials we could look up? I'm way over here in the Seattle region, so we just don't know which museums to look at for these things over there, and search engines aren't always reliable for finding the contents of smaller museums online, unless we happen to get lucky. (Most of what I tend to find is How To stuff, not source materials for actual examples.)
Oh, there's loads. You could contact the SCA members of Nordmark and Aarnimetsä (ie. Sweden and Finland). They know what's it about and they'd love to help out. I haven't been active in the organisation for close to 18yrs, so I'm out of touch on exactly _who_ to contact. Pennsic and Estrella used to be favourite events to visit in the US, and if you have the possibility to travel to Europe I'd recommend the Double Wars. (Just check on them first - as I said I haven't been active in years. That there is activity I know; this is apparently how Nordmark spent the height of the pandemic ruclips.net/video/kh-i7-UFotc/видео.html )
I knowticed when you ended you didnt put a knot in. To keep the thread from coming out? How come?
Several small stitches is as stable as a knot
Lovely, I would have liked to see how the buttonholes were worked. Are they the same as a modern handsewn buttonholes ?
They are a little simpler, you don't usually go round the ends of the slit, just two rows of blanket/buttonhole stitching on each side
@@SallyPointer Thanks Sally.
I've a liripipe needing buttons, I'd prefer to hand-braid button loops rather than cut button holes. Is this anathema?
Depends whether you want it based on extant garments or not. I'm not aware of any medieval examples made that way, but for a more modern interpretation anything goes.
@@SallyPointer Trying to be historically informed.
I love your videos and this one is no exception. What type of buttonholes did you make?
Just very simple medieval style ones, two rows of blanket/button hole stitch, no real rounding of the ends of the slits
Excellent. Have you got a video on how to make the dress, especially that Hood, it looks amazing
@@KM-yf6qz I'll make one if I get a chance to do another one.
Aww thanks
How do you size your button holes for these?
I usually cut slightly smaller than I think on the first one and try it before doing the rest
Please could you tell me, are the buttonholes loops of material or slits with stitching around?
Slits with stitching, though Medieval buttonholes don't stitch right round the ends of the slit, just along the flat sides
How did you do the buttonholes? Was it an actual hole or a loop that the buttons fastened into?
It's a slot with buttonhole stitch, nothing fancy