Time to launch my jedi librarian project

 I never thought that I would do a jedi, to be honest I was never really interested in those costumes or lightsabres. Still the last year I've gotten a bit bored with my x-wing pilot costume and I felt that I wanted a costume that was obviously Star Wars, but also nice and comfy to walk around in. So a jedi it was. 

The jedi librarian is modelled on the character of Jocasta Nu from Episode II.

There are some other librarians in the comics and games as well. The main thing that separates a librarian/historian/archivist is the geometric patterns on the tabards and obi, and that there is no leather belt. I was really happy to skip the leather belt and basically just have to make fabric costume. I had the project in the back of my mind, and then I suddenly found this heavy cotton fabric with a distinct geometric pattern.

I liked the scale, and that it was a cotton fabric, so I decided to go for the jedi. Now I of course needed fabric for the tunics as well, so I quickly threw together a moodboard at the same online store where I had found the above fabric. (stoffochstil.se)

The top fabric will be the undertunic, the golden brown will be the main tunic and the black is for the big black skirt and boots that I'm planning on using, and that I already have.

This is what the fabrics looked like after I had washed them. The reddish fabric for the undertunic is a linen-viscose blend and the golden brown fabric for the outer tunic is a linen-cotton blend. I really wanted to use linen, since it's so comfortable and also has a nice texture to it. The problem with linen is that it wrinkles like crazy, but the blended fibres help with that. 

The white fabric for the obi and tabards are too contrasting against the other fabrics, so I will try give them a tea bath to take the white off a bit. Also the pattern is quite faint, so I will work with embroidering the pattern with threads in the same colours as the tunics.

With that it's on to actually sewing the costume. I'm hoping to get started with that in the weekend.