Bumroll.

 

A bumroll was very common around 1400 century, because the women where supposed to have big hips. So if they didn´t have that, they made big hips. And big hips are very easy to get! In one way or another

Start to measure your vaist. Lay out the measuring tape in a cirkel on a piece of paper. Draw a line about 2 cm out from the outside of the measuring tape, so that you get a line in the shape of an oval cirkel, this will become the inner curve of your bumroll.. Beucase of the 2 extra cm you will vear the bumroll a little bit under your vaist, on your hips. Make the ends of the bumroll with a small gap between, then you can adjust the size of the bumroll. With strings.

 

Now you add about 7-15 cm at the sides, and about 20-30 cm back. It all depends on how big bumroll you want. But the picture shows the look of a large/broad bumroll pattern.

The choice of cloth should be something made of cotton, linen or similar. The bumroll will be woren under you clothes so you have to make shure that it feels comfortable. The pattern is layed on a folded piece of cloth, two times You need an upperside and an underside for the bumroll. Of course you have to have about 1 cm allowence

 

At the front there are supposed to be strings , so that you can tie it around your vaist. Theese strings are layed betweeen the upper and the under cloth. Wich are layed face to face, make shure that the strings, is layed in the middle so that they not will sewed to the cloth, moore than at the ends.

 

 
Here you can see the seam around the bumroll, and the tip of the string at the end. Leave an opening as big as your hand, at one side of the bumroll.
Now you can turn the bumroll inside out, and, the strings comes out just like magic!!
Use the hole you made to stuff the bumroll with filling. In my case I used pillows! I rippped them open end took out the filling, and stuffed my bumroll, quite much/hard. So that it will be strong enough to hold up a heavy skirt.