How to make a long cloak cape -easy sewing pattern and directions

Vintage Visage provides patterns from the past to help you make wonderful, wantable items.

We give you step by step instructions on everything you will need to make it and include advice on modern needles, hooks and yarns. We aim to make our patterns straightforward and simple to use as we want you to enjoy your making experience. Using a Kindle reader or app on your tablet for patterns for knitting, crocheting and sewing is quite new- but once you get used to it its much more straightforward than shuffling pieces of paper and it also helps save trees by not printing out…..and the readers fit nicely into your sewing or knitting bags too.

This pattern is to help you to sew and make a simple and easy to make floor length cloak or cape. This type of cape can be used for evening wear today, for reenacting many eras of history, and also for enacters of fantasy games and medieval based costumes for both men and women. When you have made the cape/cloak once, you should be able to understand the process enough to make shin length, knee length or even shorter ones too- and we give you hints and tips at the end for how to do this. We will take you step by step through making the correct measurements - and also step by step through the easy sewing and making…….you will be pleasantly surprised at how simple it is to make

Vintage Visage have a passion for all things vintage and take our inspiration from all eras- from the Victorian era, through the Titanic and Downton abbey era, through the flapper 1920s, the mid war 1930s, the wartime 1940s and the stylish and mod 1950s and 60s……