The Armour Archive

Charlotte J

For lining, I'd stick to lining in linen most of the time, not silk. Even very fancy silk garments are found lined in linen. I'm thinking off the top of my head of the Uppsala gown (women's cloth of gold gown, lined in linen) and the Charles de Blois. I was going to suggest fur lining, until you sai...

Charlotte J

I had seen arguement here that chausses were never made from linen.... was that ever confirmed? Well, you can't prove a negative, so it'd be nigh impossible to confirm that as a fact. Gwen posted a reference to a pair of linen joined hosen, from late 15th c. Germany, I believe. We CAN prove that th...

Charlotte J

Yeah, I can wear wool in Southern California heat that is relatively dry heat. But wool doesn't work the same way in humid conditions, being (at least to me personally) near intolerable. Just some tangental observations on wool vs climate. We now take you back to the thread topic... Cheers, Tim The...

Charlotte J

Ah, yes. Always the topic of raging debate.

-Charlotte
Wool wearer through the summer months.

Charlotte J

Hi! Sorry for the delayed reply, I've been offline for a few days. Not much in terms of real updates yet. We're still on for the weekend of October 15th, with a firmer location of Marietta Mansion in Greenbelt, MD. Horses will be welcome on site! We'll be in MD, so MD state laws apply - details fort...

Charlotte J

I'll repeat Tasha's mention of the misconception that all people had their heads covered all of the time. It all depends on your time, place, and station. There was certainly a time, in the mid-late 14th century in particular, where women wore their hair dressed, and not covered. I was going to do a...

Charlotte J

Long belts, with the excess length looped over & hanging long. It depends. It comes up in the Maciejowski Bible (on Abigail , for example). We see it in the Manesse Codex on men and women (as, for example, in the illustration of Herr Heinrich von Stretlingen ). I can think of at least one extant ex...

Charlotte J

How about puting drinks in ceramic or pewter pitchers? It actually helps keep them cool. Sorry, but "drinks containers" just look awful. As so bags, cut a rectangle of canvas twice the size needed plus an inch for seam allowance, fold in half (so it's the size you need in two-ply, and sew three sid...

Charlotte J

I replied before I saw the just kidding.

Of course there's a scale. It all depends on what you want to do. Of course, don't let the best be the enemy of good.

You'd be surprised, though, by how quickly it becomes second nature to leave extra things home, rewrap them, or cover them.

Charlotte J

Minimize, not eliminate. Take the toothbrush, leave home the makeup (I'm sure you look cute in makeup... ) Take the car, park it in the other field. Take less perishable food, take more apples, meat pie coffyns (don't need refrigeration), etc. Take a barrel or jug with wine and water, keep the beer ...

Charlotte J

Dirk - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Love it! We just have a bunch of linen bags and period chests. A cooler will fit into one of the chests, with some stuff on the side. For the bags, no pattern necessary. Just use whatever scrap fabric you have for small ones, and make them pillowcase size or whatever for l...

Charlotte J

Forkbeard wrote:So, I'd say this is bad.

Totally inappropriate.

It should really be riveted.

Charlotte J

Actually I'm thinking more of the Herjolfsnes #G63 gown, much like the one H.E. sells. I just made one of wool lined with silk, and it seems that it could be worn over other things (like bocksten tunics or St. Louis shirts) while unbuttoned. Thus it acts more as a modern coat would than a gown and ...

Charlotte J

Gavin, feel free to think what you like. I stand by my comments. I'll clarify one more time. The question was asked of me "Are you saying that I have to give up something that I enjoy simply so I can fit into your idea of authentcity? " And my answer was "no, you're in the SCA". I'm not going to hol...

Charlotte J

It seems like he was meant to be with you. Congrats, and I hope he brings you as much joy as Bella did. Of course, he's not a replacement - parents who lose a child and go on to have another are not replacing their first. But he's likely to be yet another important member of your family with whom yo...

Charlotte J

What type are you looking for? The stand with the two poles sticking up from it that you see in manuscripts? I believe there's a vendor that I've seen at Kingdom Crusades and and Marching Through Time at Marietta Mansion that carries something very much like it.

I'm not aware of any others - sorry.

Charlotte J

I wonder if you took them into LensCrafters, what they'd say...

Charlotte J

Did it ever occur to you at all that some people don't just parade around in their stuff, they actually USE it? That "being a knight" is just as real to some people who care about authenticity as it is to an SCA knight? Do you have any idea at all what you're talking about? Likely not. The same as ...

Charlotte J

Good grief, you two aren't IMing each other from separate computers, are you? We do actually have two separate computers, and sometimes downtime means we're each on one. I'm physically wiped almost all of the time right now, but luckily, I can type sideways on the laptop. Often, I'll hang out on th...

Charlotte J

Jeff J wrote:A made-up person like Korg?

What are you talking about?

Me like Korg. Jeff just jealous.

Charlotte J

Lothar, You really have no idea what you're talking about. Want some context? I'd been in the SCA for 3 years when I took that picture. I'd never heard of living history. I was sitting amongst a bunch of friends who'd been part of the SCA for much longer (including some peers, if that matters so muc...

Charlotte J

Because it makes sense.

If I want to act like a medieval person, I should have medieval clothes, shoes, furniture, accessories. Otherwise, I just feel like I'm cheating. And, it's fun.

Charlotte J

Didn't Ayla invent archery? She invented horseback riding, basket weaving, and several sexual positions...

(sorry, thread derail...)

Charlotte J

Who are you talking to?

I don't think you get that most of us were saying that our standards *only* apply to our LH groups. Chill out and go have a beer. Nobody is jealous of anybody, we're all having a good time doing what we like.

Charlotte J

Marcele_mka_Tasha wrote:
Would that be a "A lace bend round of 'Uh.... I meant to do that'"?

Yeah, that's it!

When you're doing the 8 bow spiral, if you go up the hands and down the hands, instead of up over and over, you get a neat zig zag pattern instead of a spiral. It's spiffy.

Charlotte J

Oh thats dirty pool! I eventually learned how to tie a knot. There were no fatalities, so I call it a succesful class! I was almost afraid to leave you alone with the string, over lunch! I half expected to come back and find you bodily tied to the pole, not able to move. For the record, Inigo maste...

Charlotte J

Marcele_mka_Tasha wrote:I'll take your word for it Thomas; I am cheerfully "blind" to such things.

-Tasha

Is it because you got something in your eye?

Charlotte J

I mostly worry about myself, and not others. That's not to say that I don't have a little fun "people watching" along with trusted friends. Mostly I wear pretty good blinders at SCA events. I enjoy them for so many other things, not just for looking at pretties (pretty boys, maybe... ). The funny th...

Charlotte J

Also ask, fasionable vs. possible? If we can accomodate somebody in some way with something that may not be fashionable, it's more likely. Fashionable/appropriate is generally a requirement for those that can meet it, but if you can't, there's some leeway there. If it's not *possible*, say, a cell p...

Charlotte J

Back to the topic... Are there ethical limits? I can't answer this for all circumstances, but in the case of allowing an obviously modern device into a reenactment, I don't believe this is a breach. It's no more a breach than the casting director who will not cast a white Othello, or a wheelchair bo...

Charlotte J

I would also add that dirty hair will stay back longer than clean hair. If you need to wash your hair in the morning, make sure to dirty it up with some mousse.

Charlotte J

My hair is a good length for just about any time period's style (except maybe the roaring 20s ) but I have bangs. Once in a bout of authenticity-mindedness I resolved to grow them out... and found I look awful without them. I usually use a couple bobby pins to try to lay them flat underneath my vie...

Charlotte J

I'm sure there's little things I'd do differently, but I like what I do, and I can't imagine liking anything else better. There's a few time periods I wouldn't mind picking up, but not instead of the 14th century. I pretty much started out with the desire to "do it right", and missed a lot of bad mo...

Charlotte J

Kevin wrote:
I think Giuliana would lose her mind if I shaved my face clean.

I don't know her, but some women are pleasantly surprised at how nice a clean shaven face can be...

Jeff, Kevin will be there, I think he's hosting the AA get together...

Charlotte J

A side note on the meaning of anachronism... In the title, "Society for Creative Anachronism", the anachronism does refer to the medieval. The medieval is the anachronism in a modern person's life. It was not intended to be a license to mix and match all sorts of different time periods into one. Tha...

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