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The phenomenon of medieval sleepwalking classed as a disorder of body and soul. 

Medieval medical and natural philosophical writers commented on the nature of the irrational and the imaginary, the connections between the somatic and the intellectual, and the complex roles of desire, volition and compulsion. 

The sleepwalker was a source of wonder but also of confusion and complication, as he moved both physically and conceptually between different categories: not just of waking and sleeping, but also of interiority and exteriority and of fantasy and reality

The imagination was thought to be excited or inspired not just by ingrained, daily habits but by the more fleeting wishes and desires experienced by the individual during the waking state. When addressing this second type of influence on the imagination, an influence we will call the model of desire. 

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This costume was made together with Jushiiro @nekoomata​ who cosplayed WeiWuxian. You can check out his Instagram to see the full cosplay and his other works. (Instagram :https://www.instagram.com/jushiiro/ )

Now it’s time to decorate the sleeves with the flame pattern. We recommend doing this part before sewing the sleeves closed as it will be much easier this way .First , we cut out the flame pattern on the fusible interfacing and the red fabric and then placed the fusible interfacing on the sleeve and the red fabric on top of the fusible interfacing. We ironed the pattern to the sleeve until the flames stuck to it .( Don’t get disappointed if the red fabric doesn' t stick completely to the sleeve which was what happened to us . I am assuming that either the interfacing or the iron wasn't strong enough). After that you can use a zig-zag stitch or a trim to cover the raw edges of the red fabric and connect it more securely to the sleeve.

We folded the sleeves, right sides facing and sewed them closed along with the sides of the coat as pictured (seam 3) .(You can choose not to sew the sleeves on the part marked by the blue line if you  want to and leave the front part open. ) After that we hemed the raw edges.

Collar : For the collar we cut a long strip of fabric which was 16 cms wide .We proceeded to fold and iron it in half and then iron each of the two sides in half as well. (The whole process was quite similar to making bias tape). We then "sandwiched" the front edges of the coat between the two sides of the collar and sewed as close to the edge as possible.(seam 4)

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This costume was made together with Jushiiro @nekoomata​ who cosplayed WeiWuxian. You can check out his Instagram to see the full cosplay and his other works. (Instagram :https://www.instagram.com/jushiiro/ )

Materials used: 

Grey jersey fabric. Our reason for using this kind of fabric  is that it is lightweight (which is really important considering the sleeves are already heavy enough) and makes the sleeves more flowy ( which is great for photoshoots) . Moreover, it doesn't wrinkle as easily as other fabrics.

 Red fabric for the flames ( We used viscose fabric. If you are going to use fusible interfacing try avoiding fabrics that tend to get burnt easily) 

Optional : Fusible interfacing ( fabric that becomes sticky when heated with an iron.Although it's optional, we highly recommend using this to attach the red fabric more securely to the grey fabric ) 

Red trim for decorating the edges of the flames (we used about 7 metres )

Grey jersey fabric. Our reason for using this kind of fabric  is that it is lightweight (which is really important considering the sleeves are already heavy enough) and makes the sleeves more flowy ( which is great for photoshoots) . Moreover, it doesn't wrinkle as easily as other fabrics.

Red fabric for the flames ( We used viscose fabric. If you are going to use fusible interfacing try avoiding fabrics that tend to get burnt easily)

Optional : Fusible interfacing ( fabric that becomes sticky when heated with an iron.Although it's optional, we highly recommend using this to attach the red fabric more securely to the grey fabric )

Red trim for decorating the edges of the flames (we used about 7 metres )

Pattern: For the coat pattern we simply modified a kimono pattern by cutting the 2 front pieces in a way that they don't overlap.

We then placed the two front panels to the back panel right sides facing and connected them by sewing a straight line along the shoulders (seam 1)

After that we opened the two pieces as shown in the picture and placed the sleeves open on the coat. We then sewed only the edge of the armhole ( seam 2).

This costume was made together with Jushiiro @nekoomata​ who cosplayed WeiWuxian. You can check out his Instagram to see the full cosplay and his other works. (Instagram :https://www.instagram.com/jushiiro/ )

Materials used:

Black fabric (same fabric as the one used for the Zhiju)

Grey jersey fabric

Any kind of heavy fabric for the lining (we used a red gabardine fabric which provided some structure to the sash so that it wouldn’t wrinkle or fold )

Snaps for closing the sash

We cut two rectangle pieces out of the black fabric and the lining fabric and sewed them together.( We didn’t hem the top and the bottom horizontal lines since they will be covered by the grey fabric which in this case functioned as a bias tape.)

We cut two strips out of the grey fabric which had the same length as the rectangular black fabric and were  16 cms  wide.

We proceeded to fold them in half , iron them and then iron each of the two sides in half as well. (The process was similar to the making of the collar which  you can find at the second part of this worklog ). We then folded the grey fabric strips over the top and bottom part of the black rectangle  , pinned them as shown in the picture below and sewed as close to the edge as possible.

Lastly, we hemmed the vertical lines of the rectangle and hand sewed snaps on each side.