Devest Garb - Part 1

So, for my devest, which I'd originally planned to be sometime in 2009, I wanted to do a reproduction of the coronation robes of Roger the 1st of Sicily, like this;

There is also a pair of gloves and a pair of hose;

However, with the reduction in time for the devest held last weekend the time frame to produce this went from two years to less than six months, including festival, may crown and other joys. As a result of this the finished product for devest looked like this;
You can't see it, but as well as the dalmatic in blue, there is a white silk under tunic, which has a hem about 5 inches higher than the dalmatic.

Materials;

Under tunic - White german duppion silk

Dalmatic - Blue german duppion silk

Hose, cuffs, and hem - Raspberry raw silk

Hose Soles - 12 Oz. Scour canvas

Thread - Guterman silk

Every stitch is hand sewn, by myself, Sabine and Angharad (Thank you both).

Patterning for the undertunic and the dalmatic was by Miss D, with the dalmatic sleeve pattern being an excercise of over-the-net patterning.

Patterning of the hose was by Sabine using MTA as a base resource.

Glove patterning is still a work in progress

There will be more to follow, but you get the idea.