Historically Inaccurate Hemd
Posted on November 17, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing
After cartridge pleating and honeycombing, I was still somewhat in the mood for that kind of fabric manipulation, and directing my internet searches in that vague direction, and I stumbled on this:katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06…
Now, do I want to ever make myself a 16th century German costume, especially a kampfrau one? No! I’m from lake Como! Those are the enemies who come down the Alps pillaging and bringing the Black Death with them!
Although I have to admit that at times during my day job I have found the idea of leaving everything to go march with the Jägermonstersattractive. You know, the exciting prospective of long days of march spent knitting sturdy socks, punctuated by the excitement of settling down in camp and having a chance of doing lots of laundry. Or something. Sometimes being a programmer will make you think odd things.
Anyway, going back to the topic, no, I didn’t need an historically accurate hemd. But I did need a couple more shirts for daily wear, I did want to try my hand at smocking, and this looked nice, and I was intrigued by the way the shaping of the neck and shoulder worked, and wondered how comfortable it would be.
And so, it had to be done.
I didn’t have any suitable linen, but I did have quite a bit of cotton voile, and since I wasn’t aiming at historical accuracy it looked like a good option for something where a lot of fabric had to go in a small space.
At first I considered making it with a bit less fabric than the one in the blog, but then the voile was quite thin, so I kept the original measurement as is, only adapting the sleeve / sides seams to my size.
With the pieces being rectangles the width of the fabric, I was able to have at least one side of selvedge on all seams, and took advantage of it by finishing the seams by simply folding the allowances to one sides so that the selvedge was on top, and hemstitching them down as I would have done with a folded edge when felling.
Also, at first I wanted to make the smocking in white on white, but then I thought about a few hanks of electric blue floss I had in my stash, and decided to just go with it.
The initial seams were quickly made, then I started the smocking at the neck, and at that time the project went on hold while I got ready to go to DebConf. Then I came back and took some time to get back into a sewing mood, but finally the smocking on the next was finished, and I could go on with the main sewing, which, as I expected, went decently fast for a handsewing project.
While doing the diagonal smocking on the collar I counted the stitches to make each side the same length, which didn’t completely work because the gathers weren’t that regular to start with, and started each line from the two front opening going towards the center back, leaving a triangle with a different size right in the middle. I think overall it worked well enough.
Then there were a few more interruptions, but at last it was ready! just as the weather turned cold-ish and puffy shirts were no longer in season, but it will be there for me next spring.
I did manage to wear it a few times and I have to say that the neck shaping is quite comfortable indeed: it doesn’t pull in odd ways like the classical historically accurate pirate shirt sometimes does, and the heavy gathering at the neck makes it feel padded and soft.
I’m not as happy with the cuffs: the way I did them with just honeycombing means that they don’t need a closure, and after washing and a bit of steaming they lie nicely, but then they tend to relax in a wider shape. The next time I think I’ll leave a slit in the sleeves, possibly make a different type of smocking (depending on whether I have enough fabric) and then line them like the neck so that they are stable.
Because, yes, I think that there will be another time: I have a few more project before that, and I want to spend maybe another year working from my stash, but then I think I’ll buy some soft linen and make at least another one, maybe with white-on-white smocking so that it will be easier to match with different garments.
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TFW you are sewing a skirt, with various meters¹ of fabric on your legs, and need to check your notes², and you know that you've updated them somewhat on the laptop, but you're on the PC, so you git pull and. timeout.
the VPS³ where you have the git repository is down. and you could sync directly with the laptop, but you're here under various meters of fabric and the laptop is over there, turned off, on the other side of the room!
or you can complain on the internet until the VPS is back :D
(and find out that you didn't push your commit from the laptop)
¹ we don't do those “90 cm cut of fabric, good for a skirt here. it's ankle-length at the very least, and finished circumference at the hem above 3 m or GTFO
² what will become instructions on my website
³ contabo, if anybody is wondering
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@Possumantha the one I'm doing right now is going to be 375 cm (3 panels of 125 cm wide fabric)
with a cage crinoline I guess more than 4 meters would not surprise me (but I still don't have one)
@Possumantha error: length is not defined for a fractal :D
(seriously: even with regular gathered flounces I'm not sure what is the correct way to measure them as “hem of the skirt”: when hemming them the ungathered length is the one that matters, but when worn they act more like a skirt where the hem is as long as the *gathered* hem (or just a bit more), but with more thickness)
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Meanwhile in Bisuschio (near en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Ci… )
And yes, it was indeed full of books (it's the size of the typical small #littleFreeLibraries )
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Intanto a Bisuschio (il paese in cui c'è it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Ci… )
E sì, era pieno di libri (a parte il modellino era fatto come la tipica #casettaDeiLibri piccola)
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Filed under: I may have a problem.
Lately I've been playing Brütal Legend, where there are red things hidden around the world that are useful when found.
Yesterday evening I was talking to @Diego Roversi when I spotted the red cap of a bottle of tick and mosquito repellent on top of a cupboard, and in mid conversation my brain went “red! mine!”
(to be fair, in the right season tick and mosquito repellent *is* useful and gives a stat bonus)
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@Tom Roberts @Diego Roversi yeah, I've only had a computer able to play it for a couple of years, so I'm pretty late to it, but now that I've finished it I definitely want to go around and find all of the missing bound serpents and buried metal (not that there are *that many* left)
the only problem I have with it is that at times I got stuck not being able to do what I need to do (say, start a (side) quest) because I didn't want the current song to stop playing :D
chestnuts have been baked
now the question is: how many will be left for the dead to eat tonight?
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@Alessandro ah, beh, se le hai in casa meglio ancora! :D
mi sembrava un po' tardi per andare a comprarne
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La classificazione dei mal di testa con #Kubernetes
#linuxday2025 #linuxday2025casoratesempione #linuxday2025live
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hai citato il mio account su peertube :D
Puoi seguire questo account, dovrebbe essere più facile.
O puoi citare mettendo l'indirizzo completo
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@ragazza senza grazie i sorgenti di quelli esagonali sono su git.trueelena.org/crafts/hex_s… (tranne quelli disegnati da @Fabio che sono su git.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/stickers )
gli adesivi invece sono appena stati messi nella borsa che domani verrà portata al #LinuxDay2025 di Casorate Sempione :)
Gentil fediverso che lotta contro le stampanti
missà che la nostra è davvero arrivata, e sto meditando l'acquisto di una nuova: mi risulta che il consiglio del fediverso per stampanti che stampano e non cercano di infinocchiarti in abbonamenti vari siano le Brother, e i negozi soliti da cui compro questo genere di cose o non ne hanno, o hanno delle multifunzione enormi (e sono comunque esaurite)
avete consigli di negozi con sito da cui comprare stampanti, idealmente in it, al più in eu?
(sto cercando una laser a colori con connessione di rete cablata)
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@ModestinoSycamore @andre123 La questione dovrebbe essere questa: consumerrights.wiki/w/Brother_…
Il link l'ho trovato in descrizione cercando il video di #LouisRossman che ne aveva parlato tempo fa:
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saturday I had to wait about two hours for the seasonal vaccines, I tried to stand as close as possible to the open window in the busy waiting room, and noticed that I had noticed the sound of two trains from the nearby railway, but not the other four, from a different operator, and started to wonder whether the trains from the other operator were newer and more silent, but then the ones I had noticed often are also run with even more recent trains and…
this is (waiting for) vaccines causing autism, right?
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Immagino che fare un plastico di quella linea sia il sogno bagnato della maggior parte dei ferromodellisti, ma 51 km in scala 1:87 (la classica "H0") richiederebbero un bel po' di spazio.
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my mother's AC, also used for heating, has stopped working yesterday morning (service will be called tomorrow, because weekend).
since a few days I suspect that one of the heating elements in my oven is no longer turning on (I still need to test it, and then call service, I guess, or try to open it and see if there is anything obvious, otherwise call service).
and now my printer is giving errors of the “try a good clean, but if that doesn't work you need to change a motor that costs more than a new printer” kind (considering options. it wasn't printing that well lately, anyway).
the tarot reading says “danger: strong magnetic fields”
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@Comandante Virgola :snwfn: no, dai!
io speravo “non c'è due senza tre” ed essere arrivata. altri 7 no! :D
/me, who has been playing Brütal Legend in the last week or two
DOUBLE JAB!
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@David Bremner on the way to the vaccination we stopped at the library to leave some books we had read, and on the way back we stopped again to get some more books.
and we also looked at the titles in the little free library (but didn't find anything interesting)
for this weekend *we have plans* :D
/me at the supermarket: oh, they have candied chestnuts for sale, shall we buy some for the holidays¹?
@Diego Roversi : will they survive until the holidays? wait, what do you mean by “holidays? thursday?
/me: no, no, the holidays. well, before christmas there is also the Linux Day, that counts as a holiday, right?. and Halloween. and…
¹ around here in this season “the holidays” usually refers to Christmas time
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@Diego Roversi : arrivano alle feste? o per feste intendi qualcosa come giovedì?
/me: no, no, le feste. beh, prima di Natale c'è il Linux Day, quello conta come festa, vero? e poi Halloween. e poi…
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@Lysander il breve @Diego Roversi stasera era già prevista della torta di pane (e ho assaggiato della marmellata di castagne che era da aprire per altre ragioni), i maron glacé possono aspettare anche fino a domani, tutto sommato :D
(tra l'altro abbiamo ancora il secondo pacchetto preso settimana scorsa di una marca diversa, da assaggiare)
(il primo era stato assaggiato mi pare il giorno stesso in cui è stato comprato, o al più il giorno dopo)
(ma ci stiamo trattenendo perché comunque adesso stiamo anche mangiando caldarroste un paio di volte alla settimana, i maron glacé tutto sommato si conservano più a lungo)
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L'anno scorso ho provato a farli. Ogni giorno a scaldarli in sciroppo. All'ultimo giorno mi arriva una telefonata importante mentre li stavo scaldando e si sono bruciati.
Non ti dico le bestemmie.
Cagoween¹ lo aborro, ma se offre una scusa per mangiare marron glacé allora sia il benvenuto!
@diegor
¹ Versione commerciale e consumista di antico rito celtico di cui ormai si è perso il ricordo, sotto quintali di plastica usa-e-getta.
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Un Piccione travestito da Colombo
I need to do something quick and easy, and to clear up the sewing room a bit: I'll just do this cap for which I've cut the fabric more than one year ago, should only require a couple hours.
proceeds to do some finishing by hand over each seam.
Ho bisogno di fare qualcosa di facile e veloce, e riordinare un po' il laboratorio di cucito: vedo di finire questo cappellino per cui ho tagliato la stoffa più di un anno fa, dovrebbero bastare un paio di ore.
si mette ad aggiungere una rifinitura a mano su ciascuna cucitura.
@Antonio no, è che stirare bene delle cuciture molto curve su della lana non è così facile, quindi ci stava bene un'impuntura per tenerle piatte, ma non mi piaceva l'idea di un'impuntura a macchina in filo di colore contrastante¹, e quindi mi son messa a farla a mano in modo quasi invisibile.
¹ la stoffa è verde, variegata, con delle leggere sfumature tendenti all'oro. il filo con cui sto cucendo è quasi color oro (un po' più scuro): un punto molto breve ad una certa distanza dal successivo sparisce nella stoffa, una fila di punti a macchina si vedrebbe bene.
@Antonio beh, fondamentalmente cucire a mano consiste nel ripetere continuamente piccoli gesti, è il genere di attivita che si presta molto bene alla meditazione
però dipende da cosa uno fa con la testa mentre le mani cuciono
anyway, unexpected hand-finishing done, machine seams all done, now the only thing that is missing is a final pressing and then attaching the lining by hand (as I always expected to do).
And then I'll have a second choice of hat to go with my autumn outfit, for when for some inexplicable reason I may not want to wear a witch hat with ear flaps.
comunque, cucito a mano non pianificato fatto, cuciture a macchina fatte tutte, adesso manca solo una stirata finale e attaccare la fodera a mano (cosa che avevo già intenzione di fare)
E poi avrò un secondo cappello per il mio completo autunnale, per quando per ragioni incomprensibili può non essere il caso di indossare un cappello da strega con i paraorecchie.
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and the button on top. I almost forgot about the button on top.
And back when I had cut the fabric I had forgotten about it too, so tomorrow I'll have to dig through the stash until I get to the remains of this fabric, but I know I still have it.
e il bottone in cima. mi stavo dimenticando del bottone in cima.
E me ne ero dimenticata anche quando ho tagliato la stoffa, quindi domani dovrò scavare nello stash fino a che non trovo i residui di questa stoffa, ma so di averne ancora.
Anche quest'anno il GL-Como partecipa al Linux Day!
L'appuntamento annuale organizzato da ILS è nato nel 2001 per promuovere le idee del software libero e dell'open source, con un occhio di riguardo verso Linux. L'evento è costituito da una rete di eventi decentralizzati in tutta Italia organizzati autonomamente da gruppi volontari e appassionati.
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TFW you're walking around the house carefully holding a syringe¹ and they ring at the door.
thankfully it was for a somewhat spammy catalogue of frozen food delivered at home, and I didn't have to actually *open* the door while holding said syringe.
¹ empty, but still dirty with waterproof, document #fountainPen ink
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This is not a drill either.
Chestnut season has started! I repeat, chestnut season has started!
Yesterday we bought 1 kg of chestnuts from the supermarket. This morning we noticed a few chestnuts while walking, decided to pick some up and mix them with those from the supermarket and *without going out of our way or anything* we accidentally found ourselves with almost another kg of chestnuts.
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this is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.
polenta season has started!
rejoice!
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questa non è un'esercitazione!
è iniziata la stagione della polenta!
rallegratevi!
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@Rapita dagli alieni @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
passate di qui che ne metto su un'altra pentola :D
(potrebbe essere quella istantanea che in 20 minuti è pronta. la confezione dice 5, ma mente :D )
(potrebbe volerci un po' più tempo a far cuocere dei condimenti decenti però :D )
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@Rapita dagli alieni stavo giusto avvisando diego che domani mattina sul molto presto rischiavamo di essere svegliati in modo traumatico dal citofono :D
(o stanotte appena andati a dormire, da @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua che invece ha meno strada)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Rapita dagli alieni @Panormus giusto ieri sera era avanzato del sugo che era stato preparato per la polenta, e ho proposto di finirlo oggi a pranzo con del cous cous :)
(alla fine verrà ripassato in forno a cena con degli altri avanzi, veniva più comodo)
però la polenta scalda di più del cous cous, e quando le giornate iniziano ad accorciarsi e la sera scende l'arietta fresca… :D
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tonight while half-asleep I thought of a possible set of rules for a card game using the cards in use in a #conworld
I've just realized that the potential maximum score is 20724, and that the game involves counting points at the end to see whether the game¹ has been won.
To be fair, in context card games are usually played mostly by school-age children and are supposed to be at a somewhat useful learning exercise.
But maybe it's a bit too much?
¹ it is a cooperative game, in that place and time they don't do competition if they can avoid it
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Ieri sono stata a fare un po' di turismo architettonico¹ a Milano, e avrei un favore da chiedervi: quando fate la rivoluzione potreste cercare di non rompere troppo piazza Gae Aulenti?
No, perché così com'è è un tempio al consumismo che fa impressione, ma a metterci dentro qualcosa tipo una biblioteca e altri spazi sociali deve venir fuori una figata pazzesca
¹ altrimenti detto “un'ora e venti di coincidenza tra due treni, ho avuto tempo di guardarmi attorno
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TIL that in Milan you can pay your metrò fare by tapping a debit (or credit, I guess) card when entering and when leaving.
which is pretty convenient when the high speed train you're on, that you've chosen precisely because it stopped at the same station as your next train, announces that they are stopping at another train station in a different part of Milan (~15 minutes by metro from the right station) and they tell you you can continue your journey “with the first useful train” (if you can find one)
thankfully the disruption had affected most trains, and my second one was also late, so I could catch it easily :D
TIL che a Milano si può pagare il metrò passando il bancomat (o una carta di credito, immagino) sui tornelli in entrata e uscita.
che è comodo quando l'alta velocità su cui sei, che hai scelto apposta perché fermava alla stessa stazione del treno successivo che devi prendere, annuncia che stavolta fermeranno ad una fermata diversa (a ~15 minuti di metrò da quella giusta) e che puoi continuare il tuo viaggio “a bordo dei primi treni utili” (se riesci a trovarne)
per fortuna i problemi coinvolgevano anche gli altri treni, anche il secondo era in ritardo e son riuscita a prenderlo facilmente :D
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I've just received my shiny new tarot deck¹
i mixed it and picked a card
it was the knight of coins, W026 – Battery charging
I realized I had forgotten about putting a battery under charge this morning
is this the tarot actually working as designed?
¹ organical-mechanical.itch.io/i… of course
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@ragazza senza grazie più che altro il mio approccio a tutto ciò che può avere aspetti spirituali è molto discordiano, e l'approccio discordiano può essere offensivo per chi approccia quelle cose in altri modi.
e le cose offensive, insegna Eris, si fanno, ma senza ostentarle :)
Let it be officially known: I've just opened a drawer and said “I don't need any other notebook¹”
¹ for a while
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eh.
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Intanto treni per Malpensa con seri problemi, e per una volta non è colpa di #trenord
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Danni alla ferrovia di Castellenza, cancellati almeno per un giorno i Malpensa Express da Milano Cadorna
Il danneggiamento causato dal cantiere autostradale costringe lo stop del collegamento tra l'aeroporto e la stazione di Cadorna. Restano attivi quelli in partenza e arrivo da Milano CentraleDamiano Franzetti (Vareseweb Srl)
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If anybody needs to make a slide for a talk where they are talking about bug hunting / bug squashing, this may be useful
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(yes, today I have been preparing slides for a talk, why do you ask?)
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Se a qualcuno serve una slide per un talk in cui devono parlare di caccia ai bug, questo può essere utile
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(sì, oggi stavo preparando le slide per un talk, perché?)
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I am sorry about that one murder everybody is talking about:
I am sorry about the possibly otherwise nice¹ person who has decided to kill another human;
I am sorry about the potential celebration of the dead person as a martyr, and consequential further spread of his ideas;
I am sorry about the further normalization of violence as a political tool
I am sorry about the potential for more violence as a reaction
And it's a minor thing, but I'm annoyed at the fact that these days I keep reading what for me is the name of one of the Captains, and it's that person instead :)
Things I'm not sorry about include:
One dead asshole (good riddance)
¹ afaik there is still the possibility that it was some other fascist from a rival faction or whatever
Kermode
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Also, no one except you has a clue about historical accuracy!
Although, I think you're in some kind of club in the city?
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