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And some more getting there.
The last reconstructed patches have gone in (or on, depending), and the only things left to take care of are the still not completely clear finish of the neck area as well as the hems at the bottom and at the sleeves. Otherwise, it is finally done - and most of the bits that looked dodgy or not quite as they should at some stage did fit together beautifully at the end.
That was a lot of rough stitching with wool yarn, I can tell you! The result, though - I find it rather nice. It definitely is something way, way out of the ordinary way people dressed in the Early Middle Ages.
Here's the reconstructed tunic from the front, as it looks now, with the yet unfinished hems and neck:
And this is the view from the back:
So that is as good as done, too. Whew!
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Do you have the sense that the original would have been done like you did, all at once, with a goal of making a tunic from a (random) pile of scraps, or, could it have been assembled a bit at a time when one item was ripped and repaired, and then another, and finally someone turned it into a tunic long after the first two bits were put together?
Definitely an assembly all at once, I'd say. I can't see a reason for sewing arbitrary bits of used fabric together arbitrarily to one day turn it into a tunic, and it was definitely not a normal tunic that was just patched up. So I'd say that yes, someone sat down with a pile of scraps and went for a tunic.
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