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--- a/source/historical_menswear/shirts/1880_shirt/index.rst
+++ b/source/historical_menswear/shirts/1880_shirt/index.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,21 @@ treasury of domestic information
 <https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012088023/page/718/mode/2up>`_
 from 1880.
 
-
+This pattern is probably good for a relatively wide range of dates: I've
+seen on the internet grainy scans of ads from the 1860 that seem to use
+a pattern like this one, and it should work up to the Edwardian era, but
+you will have to do some research on the appropriate shapes of the front
+opening and especially collar and cuffs for earch era.
+
+I believe that the original instructions assumed that this shirt would
+be hand sewn in the home, but by the 1880s sewing machines in the home
+were most definitely a thing.
+
+If you want to use a machine, your options are to sew by machine
+everywhere the instructions say to backstitch and handsew everything
+else, or to sew by machine the backstitched seams and topstitch every
+time the instructions say to hemstitch something; buttonholes should
+probably still be done by hand, however.
 
 Materials
 ---------
@@ -100,6 +114,12 @@ nicely on your fabric with as little waste as possible:
    length of the sleeve: ``arm_shoulder_tip_to_wrist_bent`` minus half
    the cuff, or to taste according to how puffed you want the sleeve to
    be;
+``sleeve_width``
+   the basic width of the sleeve, before dealing with the gussets: this
+   is often half the ``shirt_width``;
+``sleeve_wrist_circumference``
+   the desired circumference of the sleeve at the wrist, before
+   gathering it into the cuff;
 ``sewing_allowance``
    the default sewing allowance, as small as you can manage, remembering
    that many seams are sewn and felled, so the fabric will have to be
@@ -117,12 +137,63 @@ those are mostly big rectangles: you can get their measurements from the
 Draw mode as follows:
 
 back:
-   width: A – A2, height: A – A1;
+   a rectangle as wide as ``shirt_width`` (A – A2) and as high as
+   ``shirt_length_back`` (A – A1);
 front:
-   width: A – A2, height: A — A8;
+   a rectangle as wide as ``shirt_width`` (A – A9) and as high as
+   ``shirt_lenght_front`` (A — A8);
 sleeves:
-   ;
+   the final sleeve shape is an isosceles trapezium with and height of
+   ``sleeve_length`` (A – A25), a short base of
+   ``sleeve_wrist_circumference`` (A28 – A29) and a long base that adds
+   to ``sleeve_width`` the same amount that has been taken away by the
+   other base (A30 – A31): the most efficient way however is to cut a
+   rectangle that is as high as ``sleeve_length`` and twice as wide as
+   ``sleeve_width``, and adjust the sides with gussets as explained
+   below.
 
 Instructions
 ------------
 
+Cutting
+^^^^^^^
+
+Cut the full rectangles for the front and back.
+
+.. figure:: gri_33125012088023-770.svg
+   :align: center
+
+If the fabric is non-directional and has no right and wrong side, the
+best way to cut it is as described on the book fold the rectangle in
+such a way that the sides will meet precisely in the center and bast
+them together, then fold them in such a way that the distance a – g and
+h – g is the desired width at the cuff, and cut all layers of fabric
+along the fold.
+
+.. figure:: sleeve_cutting_pattern.svg
+   :align: center
+
+After re-opening the fabric, you will get the shape in figure, and you
+will have to attach the small gusset to one side of the sleeve to
+complete the trapezium. Note that because of the sewing allowances this
+won't be a precise match, but the tolerance in this pattern is enough
+for it not to be a problem.
+
+Cut four of the shoulder pieces, two of the front bands, two of each
+collar piece and four of each cuff piece.
+
+Front
+^^^^^
+
+Back
+^^^^
+
+Assembly of the body
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Sleeves
+^^^^^^^
+
+Finishing
+^^^^^^^^^
+