#Roman clothing

[jpdoingart]

So something new - and finally not completely ugly (my drawing lately has been wretched) - a Roman woman, my OC (and historical person) Lartia, wife of Marcus Plautius Silvanus.

I just really wanted to draw a palla and stola (shawl & dress respectively) to try and get it through my thick skull which is which - I muddle them up all the time.

The background is based on a fresco fragment Woman Standing on a Balcony, at the Getty museum.

[opifex-nobillima]

I deal primarily in Fancy Rectangles (Roman reproduction clothing), and the day I learned to pull threads to get my straight was a game changer. I pull a thread for EVERYTHING.

Starting edge? Pull a thread. Other edge? Pull a thread. Cutting to length? Pull. The. Thread.

I even carefully partially pull a thread to mark where I'm cutting in the arm slit on my one piece tunicas, which is most of them.

So long as your fabric grain is straight, which it should be in most modern decent quality fabrics, you will end up with nice straight lines without a bunch of crawling around on the floor/around the table trying to get your fabric to lay nicely for an entire body length. It may take a little longer in the moment, but the final product will be so much more comfortable and nicer looking.

Things to do before you cut into fabric:

Iron it. Listen to me. Look me in the eyes. Are you listening? Iron your fabric. Don’t be an idiot and waste a solid yard of material bc you were too lazy to do it right the first time. Ask me how I know. Velvet is possibly the only exception.

Expanding on the ironing, make sure your grainlines aren’t skewed. When you buy fabric, 99% of the time it will be cut crooked and you cannot rely on the cut edge to lay your fabric out straight. If your fabric has a woven pattern, you can use that as a reference, but printed ones aren’t reliable either. I draw a thread an trim off the slanted excess.

Lay your fabric out on a flat surface with straight reference lines that can be used to align the grain. For me this means my hardwood floors.

Yes I am way more obsessive than the average hobbyist tailor but getting your grain aligned is so important.

[corvus-divum]

Wanted to try colouring something so ! @thatsthat24 's Roman dress photoshoot was so nice aaaa so I wanted to doodle a little something for fun :DD

[plegdoctor]

Endlessly entertained by ghosts being half in half out of costume

[violetspark14]

13 dollar walmart tshirt i love you. i love you 13 dollar walmart tshirt

[blackoutbugza]

quick! show me your design for one of the sides as kids!

i’ll go first :)

[romegreeceart]

A statue of an young girl dressed as Artemis

* Ostia Antica

* 1st century CE

* Palazzo Massimo, Rome 

Rome, July 2012

[mono-socke]

Sleepy idiots after a movie marathon (ft. weird lighting I can't be bothered to change anymore)

Under the cut is one without lightning)

[lyricpersonarts]

let us be late to the trend with roughly-flavian age roman matrona Hatsune Miku!!!

[falmerbrook]

Why does pretty much every game except the one that takes place in Cyrodiil lean into Ancient Roman aesthetics for Cyrodiil and the Empire? Why are the only Roman aesthetics in Oblivion shit built by the Ayleids? Why is the one game where I could've been in fantasy Rome generic fantasy Europe??? Where is my fantasy Rome DAMMIT!!!!!

[restingcorpse]

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Peter Lely (1618-1680) "Diana Kirke, later Countess of Oxford" (c. 1665) Oil on canvas Located in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Lely depicted Kirke with deliberate irony, casting her as Venus with a rose and bare breast, rather than as her namesake, the chaste goddess Diana.

[illustratus]

[sforzesco]

I love love LOVE the way you drew Caligula's earrings, there s such a sad lack of men in earrings :(

he’s gotta be fashionable!!

[konigsblog]

i love that ugly, freakish pervert (creep!loser!könig)

(+ headcannons in the tags (content warning though))