My new ventile shirt made for me by Bilmo-p5

[Gill]

Barn owl had one of uncle Rays over the head canvas shirts that i loved and he would not part with ,I have a load of ventile kicking about and thought about copying Rays shirt .Bilmo-p5 done the work and i am a very happy camper ,so thanks to Ian for making this for me he made a cracking job and the fit is perfect.
Rays original shirt which was made of a cotton canvas.

Bilmos ventile copy for me .

 

[sandbender]

That is brilliant!

Lets have a report after a month or two of use.

I have a couple of those Woodlore shirts, no longer made these days, I guess they weren't selling so well at nearly £100 a piece, very well thought out garment though.

 

[Gill]

That is brilliant!

Lets have a report after a month or two of use.

I have a couple of those Woodlore shirts, no longer made these days, I guess they weren't selling so well at nearly £100 a piece, very well thought out garment though.

I noticed they were not on Rays site now great shirt but very expensive .

 

[vizsla]

Cracking job

 

[John Fenna]

Nice job!
Ventile is not the easiest fabric to sew...

 

[Toddy]

I'm impressed
Ian always does a good job, but doing it in ventile is a sterling effort

cheers,
M

 

[Shewie]

I like that, good work Ian

I've never fancied a ventile next to the skin though due to the cardboard effect, I'll be interested to hear how you get on with it Gill

 

[Kernowek Scouser]

That is nice piece of work

I'm still a bit of a newbie to this forum and have followed a thrifty, off the peg approach to outdoor wear up to this point, so you will forgive what is perhaps a silly question.

Is ventile all it is cracked up to be, as retail garments made from it appear to be rather expensive?

 

[steve a]

The Woodlore ones are Orvis Malpai shirts rebranded, £69 from Orvis

 

[Barn Owl]

Very nice work by Ian.

Kernowek, ventile is for me a great material as a jacket/smock.haven't had it as a shirt.

Some love it,some hate it.

 

[topknot]

Wow !!, i'm lost for words

Topknot

 

[sandbender]

The Woodlore ones are Orvis Malpai shirts rebranded, £69 from Orvis

Someone mentioned this before, however they are not those shirts, the might look similar, they may even have be made by Orvis for Woodlore, but that is unlikely as Woodlore went out of their way to point out that these were manufactured in the UK.

 

[sandbender]

Nice job!
Ventile is not the easiest fabric to sew...

Indeed and the stitching looks superb.

Any chance of a close up? Do you have a special sewing machine, or just an old Singer?

 

[bilmo-p5]

Thank you for your comments.
This was my first attempt at Ventile, although I practised quite a lot on scraps from the cutting-out before I did it for real. As John said, it isn't particularly easy to sew. 'Ventile' recommend flat felled seams, which are ok for straght seams but do not lend themselves easily to curves. I found it needed a great deal of care to get even a simple flat seam pucker-free on a curve. It also seemed to blunt the needles quite quickly.

I used a modest Janome domestic machinewhich was mostly fine, but it wasn't keen on some of the multiple thicknesses so I'm using a more heavy-duty machine that I have (another Janome/ New Home) for another Ventile project I have on the go.

Here's a detail of the pocket / placket area for Mr Sandbender...

 

[sandbender]

"...I used a modest Janome domestic machinewhich was mostly fine, but it wasn't keen on some of the multiple thicknesses so I'm using a more heavy-duty machine that I have (another Janome/ New Home) for another Ventile project I have on the go....Here's a detail of the pocket / placket area for Mr Sandbender..."

Thanks for that, fantastic work.

 

[Gill]

Been wearing this shirt again lately , great shirt !

 

[CLEM]

Been wearing this shirt again lately , great shirt !

Very nice work there by Mr Bilmo

 

[Herman30]

Nice shirt! Would love to have one.

I have this one made in 100% cotton. Made by a small finnish company.

 

[CLEM]

Nice shirt! Would love to have one.

I have this one made in 100% cotton. Made by a small finnish company.

Very nice, I like this style of shirt. What company is this and what do they go for £ ?

 

[Herman30]

Very nice, I like this style of shirt. What company is this and what do they go for £ ?

Tuntsapaita harmaa – Tuntsakauppa

47-52 £