The Armour Archive

Caithlinn

How about this coming weekend? We'll be up that way, too (sorry for the late chiming in, had a lot to deal with recently, pregnant, having the baby, new job, moving house - not necessarily in that order, think more all at once....) and it might be fun to meet. If not, keep us posted, and maybe April...

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Ingvarr, In that case, even though Thora's article is excellent, be advised that the pattern of said jacket is NOT a bathrobe style. It's entirely different, with straight front pieces, but angled hems, which *could* be worn overlapping. The jacket remains were found with remains of lining, in which...

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Guthrothr, well, there is the term ÃƒÂ³lpa or loÃƒÂ°ÃƒÂ³lpa ..... Inga Haegg says in connection with the thick, woven and felted fragment of what is possibly a sleeveless vest type garment found in Haithabu (Textilfunde aus dem Hafen von Haithabu, loose translation, * * parts are my own comments): "...

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no - Bj 655 is not part of HÃƒÂ¤gg's survey

Actually, it is mentioned... it just doesn't have any data relevant to her studies....

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Cunian, Most of the Birka brooches were found in a time when the goal of archaeology was to state "found two brooches, one CLEANED!", since the brooch as such was the interesting item, not the remains of "stuff" attached to them, which now forms the basis of most of our understanding of (female) clo...

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is TOMAR an author or a book? if it's a book what's its title?

TOMAR: Techniques of Medival Armour Reproduction by Brian Price, ISBN 1581600984

http://www.superbookdeals.com/cgi-bin/m ... 9&seoid=18

Does that help?

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Brennus wrote: European archaeology even today leaves much to be desired as a discipline. The real archaeological work in Europe hasn't even started yet. The current methodology is inadequate to the task even archaic by American standards. Things seem to be changing slowly but there is still a frus...

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Thanks! Looking forward to it...

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John,

check these people, they really have a lot of info:
http://www.dharmatrading.com

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James,

Wow, would you by any chance be able to send me a tiny scrap of your velvet? Or give me the contact details of the store, if you remember them? I'd love to check it out, under the microscope, if possible at all.... it might be another source, one can never have enough.

Thanks,

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Sure, here's the link: http://www.gewand-und-tand.de/ Click on Stoffe (under Material on the left side), go to Samt (right column, second down) and voila: first one. They have upped the price to Ã¢â€šÂ¬59.95 (~US$73) though.... James, that place you found the velvet at wouldn't be by any chance that...

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Well, There is real silk velvet out there... the difference is in price, as usual. You can spend Ã¢â€šÂ¬1500/m for a wonderful patterned velvet from Bevilaqa or you can spend less than $10 on silk velvet with a (usually) a silk backing (normally 18-20%) and a rayon pile (82-80%). Agnes Alauzet is al...

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Hi Wyrm, There is a handled bone comb from Haithabu (Hedeby, now Germany) as well as several bone combs from Jorvik (York). Most of them are handled combs (the shape of a bone probably lents itself to that) but two or three are single or double sided combs, as well as remains of tooth plates. No suc...

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Halvgrim,

If you have specific questions, send them to me and I will give them a call. Either I will get them to reply directly to you or I will get the answers and send them back to you then.

Cheers,

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Good thread, my student! To add to the walnut thing, yes, the European walnut was certainly used to dye things brown-black in the (at least early) medieval period (see dark age textile books, like Penelope Walton, or Lise Bender JÃƒÂ¸rgensen or Inga HÃƒÂ¤gg, to name a few...) Nowadays you can collec...

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Tasha,

They can email me under:

caithlinn at hotmail dot com

Cheers everyone,

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Dear all, I have contacted the V&A about a reprint of this book. It's been out of print for decades and it's almost the "bible" for medieval jewellery enthusiasts around the world. So many people are after a copy, that I thought it might be worthwhile finding out what the publisher thinks about a re...

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Just got back from a stroll through my local gallery: The Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight. It's famous for it's pre-raphaelite paintings, but amongst them are to be found three treasures: Three paintings between 1400-1440! One of them is an altarpiece by a Spanish painter, probably taught by...

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Just remembered.... Jacqueline Herald also mentiones earrings in "Renaissance dress in Italy 1400-1500": 1. their occurrence in a Northern Italian will, around 1430 (?, I think...) 2. a sumptuary law in Sicily explicitly forbidding the wearing of them in 1425. The original source is in the appendix,...

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Hi, The same author has published another article in The Art Bulletin in Sept, 2000 Learned Reading, Vernacular Seeing: Jacques Daret's Presentation in the Temple (available online http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_3_82/ai_66304030) In her footnote 44 she writes: "Earrings, of which...

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Hi, Translation Humanimal: This series concerns among other things our Ulfhednar symbol, which can be found around 600 AD in the Southern German area, but is also represented on the stamped metal decorations of Torslunda (Sweden). It is possible to recognise (usually very highly detailed) armed men,...

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Again, another book (I've written about it so often, I can't actually remember how many times) by Olaf Goubitz and others, incorporating many more finds of similar and other contexts, is "Stepping through time". (maybe Oxbow books will have it?) Very worth while having, if a bit confusing to go thro...

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Hi, The original text of the "Itinerarium Kambriae" can be found in the BNF (gallica, Recherche libre: N050180), on page 54. Is says (as far as I can read it): "Accidit et tempore Guillelmi de Breusa, ipso testante, quemdam militem suum, in conflictu contra (Gualenses?), a quodam ipsorum per mediam ...

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Hi, taking into account that many people have discussed the (by now probably not just that any more) possibility that the individual panels of the tapestry were executed in different workshops and that misinterpretations in the cartoon (made by one artist, but exectuted by many embroideresses) could...

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However, there are three-ply sheets o' plywood with a thicker layer between two thinner...I doubt the Vikings were going down to 'holm despot' and getting it in 4x8 sheets though. Got any sketches of the construction in cross section? Hm, but maybe the equivalent in form of Sven, the woodworker, wh...

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Aha!, Only a way of braiding a single piece of leather, like Jeff says... This part is about pieces without an apparent function. The text concerning this illustration says: "Since most leather remains belong to shoes, it seem probable that these pieces could also be parts of shoes. In all likelyhoo...

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Jeff, Well, strictly speaking it's not real ply-wood..... Since I have the article about the detailed analysis by Inga HÃƒÂ¤gg, I can tell you that the scabbard is made in such a fashion that the main shell has the fibres parallel to the blade. On both sides of the main shell have been found traces ...

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Any time, Halv, I have profited from your infos just as much, believe me!

Inga HÃƒÂ¤gg has a very detailed article about the scabbards in her book Ã¢â‚¬Å“Textilfunde aus den GrÃƒÂ¤bern und der Siedlung von HaithabuÃ¢â‚¬Â

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Halvgrim: Does this help? Preservation: The metal parts of the furniture are preserved completely, the wooden parts of the grip are preserved in fragments. Heavy corrosion damage forced extensive security measures and replacements with plastic modelling clay during restauration. The Pommel is made i...

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It's more likely he wielded it as a symbol of his rank, and also because he may have just been rather handy with a large, heavy stick! Which is along the same line of thought of Gale Owen Crocker in the recently published "Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry". The "baculum" as it is called on the tap...

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If you take a look at Menghins "Die Schwert Fruhenmittelatlers (the Sword in the early middle ages)

I guess you mean "Das Schwert im frÃƒÂ¼hen Mittelalter".....

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And before anybody jumps in to say Charles the Bold was 15th century Burgundy, not 9th century Francia, that should be Charles the Bald. A Freudian slip, perhaps?

Nope,

Non Native Speaker slip.... it shows occasionally..... right MichaelB?

Cheers,

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Cet,

I know this one:
Labarte, "Inventaire du mobilier de Charles V," Paris, 1879 (French, and I don't believe available any more....)

no online source afaik.....but I'm sure other people might know....

Hope this helps,

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I have seen later period folks use garters to prevent this but have never seen anything in VA/post VA artwork to suggest them during this period. Halv Hi Halv, Look what I found: http://www.rete-amicorum.de/bildergalerien/kleidung/bilder/karolinger/bilder_herr.html The guy on the right is from a pi...

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Egfroth, exactly what I find so hard to figure out, too.... they are just so so small... I don't doubt at all that they work, but heck, it's a sore trial to work with something that small..... I have other ideas about them, but nothing fit for mentioning/publication yet... Tubular TW is tubular tabl...

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