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Klaus the Red

Well, I figured I was dreaming, but it always helps to hear it from an authority. Reckon I'll do Pennsic again in my crappy 'ol 30-pound 16-gauge Wisby coat, and devote the lead-up time to more practical pursuits instead. Thanks, all. Unless anyone is bringing a spare corazina in my size they want t...

Klaus the Red

I'm looking for advice. I'm thinking of trying to put together a new corazina in time for Pennsic, but my ability to estimate production time on such things is pretty awful. I want to do a solid BP with a front fauld in six or so segments; a back assembly with a large keystone-shaped plate (vis. the...

Klaus the Red

Pictures, you tease!

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Kid's size klappvisier bascinet on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6548301563&category=1552&rd=1

Klaus the Red

Mmm, good stuff, thanks...

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Modern sensibility tells me the sheer chemise is probably meant to be a woman's garment. Interesting that it has short sleeves, regardless of the wearer's gender- I've never seen anything quite like that. Thanks for the detail!

Klaus

Klaus the Red

I gotta get my mind out of the gutter. I did a quick glance at the above reply and mistakenly read "The Burgundian toilet harness." Not an image I want to share...

Klaus

"Pansy, the problem! I must have fruit!"

Michael Palin, Time Bandits

Klaus the Red

Adam- my new website is still under development and will hopefully be up by Pennsic. I have a temporary page at www.gildedboar.com with an image of the pourpoint I made for Guillaume de Cambrai. I'm very much a part-time business with a busy dance card, and will likely not be taking any new orders u...

Klaus the Red

You might be able to find a size small DIY bascinet top and have someone rivet a very short 18-guage side/skirt piece to it. My sense is that a child's size might be as much a matter of neck/head height as it is head size. Besides, a little extra room for padding means he can grow into it for a coup...

Klaus the Red

It's funny that polyester fill gets such a bad rap when people swear by Under Armour shirts and shorts that are made out of 100% polyester. It's the difference between "wicking" and "insulating." Guts notwithstanding, that's a very pretty lentner/jupon/coat-armor/thingy. (Pick a name, it has so man...

Klaus the Red

Aw, shucks. Y'all are making me live up to my name.

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Klaus the Red

I'm honored to have been called into court that day in such august company, and glad there was someone whose deer-in-the-headlights look exceeded my own.

Congratulations again.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Yah- I take the TS reference as a suggestion that we perhaps can feel less guilty about making our garb in linen to combat the hideous modern temperature, as they might have done it in period, but not as a proof of widespread use of linen outerwear by any means. Having said that, I give you appendix...

Klaus the Red

My gut feeling is that the translators of the TS might not have included the passage about linen clothing, nor illustrated it with pictures of everyday people doing everyday tailoring tasks, unless it made sense from a European perspective and they expected that readers would actually get something ...

Klaus the Red

When last I spoke to him a couple of months ago, his wife had just had a baby and his job was sucking up way too much free time, so he was on hiatus until further notice.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

E-mail sent for the wool.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

You might want to join the Armour Research Society (please note: not an "official" sales pitch) as a resource; there is a lot of very specialized material bandied about by very knowledgeable folks there that doesn't make it onto the Archive. For instance, several members just had a long and in-depth...

Klaus the Red

Bravo. I am a dyed-in-the-wool 14th century guy and know only slightly more than squat about the Viking age, but I'm impressed by everyone's ability in this thread to focus down so constructively on the nitpicky details. I wish I had enough kit to put together a camp from my own period for such a tr...

Klaus the Red

I've seen this type of defense for both arms and legs on a couple of 14th century German effigies as well.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Klaus the Red

Dirk, please take your political agenda to the OT board where it belongs.

Klaus the Red

Try these. Originally from the Grimm Armoury site, I believe, since defunct.

[img]http://nickfriend.fatcow.com/mischarness/ChurburgBP14side.jpg[/img]

[img]http://nickfriend.fatcow.com/mischarness/churburgBP14.jpg[/img]

Klaus the Red

Oh, and FYI- Cherbourg is a coastal city in Normandy. The famous armory in South Tyrol is Schloss Churburg. If I had a buck for every time someone has misspelled this name, I'd buy a ticket to go there...

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Nope, chausses don't get lined. It stops them from stretching properly. I can't think of a single case of extant chausses/hose that are lined. Do you mean "not lined all the way to the foot," or "not lined in any way?" If the latter, I disagree. There are examples in 15th-century art of hose that a...

Klaus the Red

As to documentation, I give you 'That hosen were frequently lined, we can document. In a post to H-Costume by Brenda Brisbane, dated 10 Oct 95: "From a Guild charter from Spain in the 15th C in Hispanic Costume 1480 - 1530, ISBN 87535-126-3, all hosen made by guild members must be lined with new lin...

Klaus the Red

It is possible to weave cloth so that it is two different colours, inside and out. I know of many illustrations in which the gown is two different colours inside and out and this has been explained by this weaving technique. I can't see why they wouldn't use that technique for hosen as well. That s...

Klaus the Red

Nope, chausses don't get lined. It stops them from stretching properly. I can't think of a single case of extant chausses/hose that are lined. Do you mean "not lined all the way to the foot," or "not lined in any way?" If the latter, I disagree. There are examples in 15th-century art of hose that a...

Klaus the Red

This looks fantastic Klaus! You just keep getting prettier and prettier! YIS, Jimena If some day I look as beautiful in harness as you do without it, dearest widow, I can die a happy man... See you at Pennsic? How much larger than your head is the helm? (room for padding...) I can't tell for sure n...

Klaus the Red

And yeah, if someone offered to break a lance or two with me, I'd wear this one in the lists.

Klaus the Red

You can see the vent holes around the camail liner. I was used to a decent airflow around my neck and throat through unlined mail, so the full padding treatment was like putting my head in an insulated bag. The holes help a bit; the rest is just getting accustomed to it. The hole at the crown where ...

Klaus the Red

Boss- have you tried Geoffrey the Younger? If he's booked, I can provide contact info for a friend/teacher in TX who's very good and has been playing of late with heat-treated carbon.

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Klaus the Red

May I ask if you'd ever think of making a liner like that for those of us with less time or sewing skills? Possibly. It's nearly as tricky as fitting a body for a pourpoint, possibly moreso, because you have to get a perfect fit to both the head and the helmet. In short, I'd want to have access to ...

Klaus the Red

This was my third or fourth attempt to get it right, so it was a LONG time coming- nobody should expect miracles on their first pass. I don't know how much cotton went into it; my source is an old futon in the basement, and I just kept pulling out more until I was done. I suppose I should have weigh...

Klaus the Red

I've updated my little klappvisier site with some new material; skip ahead to the "Liner Mk. II" page if you've seen the rest before.

http://gildedboar.com/klappvisier

Klaus the Red

It was fairly oversubscribed last year.

Good! Sitting on the sidelines is easier if one is comforted by the knowledge that we are starting to have more fighters in nice 14th-century kit than we know what to do with.

Production time on a corazina?

Pimp my bascinet, part 2