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- Sun Aug 18, 2013 8:50 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Combs
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1930
Re: Combs
Are you ready to take orders yet? I want a Mary Rose comb. --T.
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:58 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Men's Doublet book on Kickstarter
- Replies: 5
- Views: 637
Re: Men's Doublet book on Kickstarter
He has a public FB page: The Raleigh Collection. Check out his photos and albums to see some of his work. Gnagy knows his stuff. I wish I'd had more money to throw at his kickstarter.
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T.
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:40 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Combs
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1930
Re: Combs
Spanish Peacock is in the process of revamping his website. He hopes to go live Monday. Mike's been focusing on his turned and laser decorated spindles (which are lovely, but I don't spin) and has let other woodwork fall by the wayside. He's no longer taking custom orders. Crossman Crafts does fine ...
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 2:11 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Combs
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1930
Re: Combs
I'm pleased you are exploring medieval and renaissance combs with the idea of offering reproductions. I'm definitely in the market for a Mary Rose comb. Will you also laser-cut the bone for the inlays, or will you have to use a plastic imitation? Have you considered making medieval spectacle frames,...
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:23 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Sources for luxury fabrics online?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 534
Re: Sources for luxury fabrics online?
Watts of Westminster (furnishings) and Watts and Company (ecclesiastical)
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:15 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 2013 study session - Efland, NC - June 1-2 2013
- Replies: 148
- Views: 3895
Re: 2013 study session - Efland, NC - June 1-2 2013
It was nice meeting folks Saturday night. I was astonished that 11 of you fit into Tom's shop- if anyone has a photo please post it.
Tracy
Tracy
- Wed May 15, 2013 5:51 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 16th c doublet from '97 Finer catalogue
- Replies: 3
- Views: 463
Re: 16th c doublet from '97 Finer catalogue
I found out today that Toby Capwell will be collaborating with Ninya Mikhaila (of Tudor Tailor ) on a future publication with the working title Doublets of Defense . I inquired if they were going to examine the ex-Finer doublet and got this reply from NM: "I haven't seen it but Toby has, apparently ...
- Mon May 06, 2013 5:12 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 16th c doublet from '97 Finer catalogue
- Replies: 3
- Views: 463
16th c doublet from '97 Finer catalogue
I'm looking for information on the doublet that was for sale in the 1997 Peter Finer catalogue. I have the basic info and one photograph. Are there more photos? Does any one know if this is in a museum?
Thanks, Tracy
Thanks, Tracy
- Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:32 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 2013 study session - Efland, NC - June 1-2 2013
- Replies: 148
- Views: 3895
Re: 2013 study session - any interest? Help me plan.
We live 20 mins to the west of Wade and can offer crash space as well. Count Tom in on whatever weekend you choose- we have no commitments for June right now.
Tracy
Tracy
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pretreating wool?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1031
Re: Pretreating wool?
If you are dyeing you want to wash oils out of the fabric that might prevent the dye from penetrating. Even fingerprints can leave smudges. Washing can consist of soaking in cold soapy water, agitating lightly, then rinsing cold a couple of times. Spin as much water out as you can then air dry.
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T.
- Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:55 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: The Higgins is closing
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1012
The Higgins is closing
The Higgins Armory is closing permanently at the end of the year.
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- Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:10 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Show off your 'Soft Kit' 2013!
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8433
Re: Show off your 'Soft Kit' 2013!
Aw, you guys are making me blush. --Tracy (Clare de Crecy in the SCA)
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:01 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Golf during the 15th & 16th centuries
- Replies: 8
- Views: 820
- Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:04 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Cuir bouilli etuis
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2423
Re: Cuir bouilli etuis
I was thinking beeswax because it is hard at room temp and stays hard even with handling. My (admittedly limited) experience with tallow is that it softens with handling. You've said your beeswax is sticky. I just checked the beeswax I rendered out from our hives last fall and it's slightly tacky bu...
- Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:20 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Cuir bouilli etuis
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2423
Re: Cuir bouilli etuis
Any updates? I was thinking about resists... would it be possible to coat the last with enough beeswax so that when you wanted to remove the liner you could warm the whole thing enough to liquify the beeswax? Whatever you use as a resist between the liner and the cover has to be pretty thin. Years a...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:03 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Show off your 'Soft Kit' 2013!
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8433
Re: Show off your 'Soft Kit' 2013!
Looking good, Dan. Have you seen the sailor's breeches and shirt in the Museum of London? I know Ninya Mikhaila has examined it and she may be able to tell you some details. Also, there's a Dutch shipwreck from 1590 with some pretty cool artifacts (including tools) if you want to flesh out your impr...
- Sat Jan 26, 2013 2:50 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14th c plaid
- Replies: 4
- Views: 452
Re: 14th c plaid
Sadly the V&A has not posted a photo of that piece yet. I've seen a black and white photo (in Merchants, Princes and Painters). Do you have a color one, Galfrid?
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T.
- Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:40 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14th c plaid
- Replies: 4
- Views: 452
14th c plaid
Check out the lining of this well-known alms purse: yellow and purple silk plaid.
T.
-The photo collection is worth exploring. Here's the search engine: http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/Search_New.aspx
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-The photo collection is worth exploring. Here's the search engine: http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/Search_New.aspx
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:20 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: slashing fabric
- Replies: 9
- Views: 544
Re: slashing fabric
My recollection from an article on pinking and slashing that Janet Arnold wrote for Costume is that gum arabic was sometimes painted on the backside of fabric to control fraying. The whole cloth wasn't painted, just the slashes. I don't remember if in the pieces she examined whether it was applied b...
- Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:09 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Late Fourteenth Century Arming Garments II: The Upper Body
- Replies: 204
- Views: 16568
Re: Late Fourteenth Century Arming Garments II: The Upper Bo
Mac- is it feasible that the hose were pointed to the waistline holes and legs were pointed to the holes along the margin? Other surviving (unquestionably civilian) garments of the period have holes all 'round for pointing hose.
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- Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:42 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Late Fourteenth Century Arming Garments II: The Upper Body
- Replies: 204
- Views: 16568
Re: Late Fourteenth Century Arming Garments II: The Upper Bo
Thanks for the photos, Bertus. Note also that below the waist there are eyelets for lacing and above there are buttons and buttonholes.
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- Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:51 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Hosen detail
- Replies: 16
- Views: 697
Re: Hosen detail
I saw that, Mac, but didn't want to derail the other thread. In thinking about what the loops could be made of I'm inclined toward metal too. The guys who'd need to regularly unfasten/refasten their hose in order to bend over would be laborer-types who'd get sweaty. Leather or thread based loops wou...
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:40 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Late Fourteenth Century Arming Garments I: Caps
- Replies: 83
- Views: 5142
Re: Late Fourteenth Century Arming Garments I: Caps
You are right, I think they are steel rather than fabric. I wasn't thinking about what I was seeing and didn't consider the posibility of a kettle hat over a bascinet. Yes, stylistically the manuscript looks like those from Milan in the late 14th c but I haven't done the research to verify that gut ...
- Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:25 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Late Fourteenth Century Arming Garments I: Caps
- Replies: 83
- Views: 5142
Re: Late Fourteenth Century Arming Garments I: Caps
The mounted man on the right in the red kettle hat is pretty clearly wearing a coif. Likewise a couple of soldiers in this illumination. St George too.
Thanks for the link to that manuscript. This is the first time I can recall seeing soldiers wearing purses.
Tracy
Thanks for the link to that manuscript. This is the first time I can recall seeing soldiers wearing purses.
Tracy
- Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:37 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Burgonet in silk w/embroidery and pearls
- Replies: 6
- Views: 627
Re: Burgonet in silk w/embroidery and pearls
Sadly it looks like I can't access the photo collection on AAF without contributing some photos of my own to the database. Unfortunately our computers went tits up since our last museum visits and we no longer have museum armor photos stored on them. We do have photos on disc, somewhere. I'll get my...
- Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:03 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Burgonet in silk w/embroidery and pearls
- Replies: 6
- Views: 627
Re: Burgonet in silk w/embroidery and pearls
Thanks Alcy. You prompted me to finally register for the AAF. Now to wait to get a mod's approval before I can look at content...
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- Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:47 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Burgonet in silk w/embroidery and pearls
- Replies: 6
- Views: 627
Re: Burgonet in silk w/embroidery and pearls
I found a reference to the hat in a 1949 Grancsay essay on costume and armor- he said it was probably worn by a page at the 1620 wedding of Gustavus Adolphus and it was in the Royal Armoury. I searched the online collection of the Livrustkammaren (Royal Armoury) but no joy, nor is it in Sweden: a Ro...
- Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:04 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Burgonet in silk w/embroidery and pearls
- Replies: 6
- Views: 627
Burgonet in silk w/embroidery and pearls
I found this photo of a burgonet covered in silk with gold embroidery, pearls, and edged in gold braid. The only info I have is from the caption: "1620s Sweden". Judging from the other photos in the album it's in a European collection but my google-fu has failed me. Does anyone here know anything ab...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 4:25 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arms and Armor: Restoration and Conservation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 702
Re: Arms and Armor: Restoration and Conservation
I told you when it came up at auction that you should put the minimum bid in on that helmet, and it didn't sell the first go around. It could've been yours, and quite a conversation piece!
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T.
- Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:30 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: St. Gallen in Wil, Switzerland: Prince Abbey of St. Gall
- Replies: 4
- Views: 334
Re: St. Gallen in Wil, Switzerland: Prince Abbey of St. Gall
More information . The Church of St Nicholas in Wil, Switzerland, for example, possesses the striking armoured and jewelled skeleton of the third-century martyr St Pancratius, taken from the catacombs in the 17th century.... The remains of St Pancratius – or whomsoever he may have been – were sent ...
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:38 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: The Rijksmuseum, in detail
- Replies: 0
- Views: 274
The Rijksmuseum, in detail
The Rijksmuseum has put large zoomable photos of 125K items in their collection online. I haven't played with it yet but apparently you can make your own portfolio, akin to Pinterest.
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- Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:39 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: What can you just not buy?
- Replies: 123
- Views: 4038
Re: What can you just not buy?
Gilded leather strips were used to outline designs on wool and linen wall hangings. The 14th c Tristan hanging is done that way. Those are fairly short pieces, however. The long piece I saw was applied to the edge of the child's brigandine in Chartres. It is continuous from hem*, up the front and ar...
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:20 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: It's Halloween! Have I missed Wade's traditional submission?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 655
Re: It's Halloween! Have I missed Wade's traditional submiss
Nope. No project for his son this year. --Tracy
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:06 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: What can you just not buy?
- Replies: 123
- Views: 4038
Re: What can you just not buy?
I'm pretty sure the appliqued gilt strip I've seen in person was gut. It was too long a continuous piece to be sinew, and quite smooth and of even width. Sinew is a possibility for the weaving, however, and something I hadn't considered.
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- Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:06 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: What can you just not buy?
- Replies: 123
- Views: 4038
Re: What can you just not buy?
I'd like to find the thin supple leather filament (ie, gut) that was used in some medieval weaving and applique. Gilded would be idea, but I could probably figure out how to gild it myself.
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