The Armour Archive

Charlotte J

Piers Brent wrote:I'm undergoing surgery to have a foreskin again.
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If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
Jesus Christ

Er... that plus your sig line makes for some... interesting... visuals.

Charlotte J

hmm. the Spirit of the thing, or the Thing itself. I'd go with the cut-and-resew approach myself, both to get the putative look correct and because if they had blue jeans they would've worn them. You've hit closest to the conundrum, I think. The thing itself, or the technique of how to make it, I t...

Charlotte J

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:You're rich.

Go with the widest you can afford. Conspicuous consumption and all that...

Not really. In LH, I'm a lowly nurse.

Charlotte J

Tasha and Charlotte, in every photo I've seen of the two of you lovely ladies, you always both look absolutly amazing. Thank you for your efforts and your inspiration. Thank you. I was about to post about my nifty early 15th c. hair that uses one pin to put on, but Tasha did better by posting a pic...

Charlotte J

I figure that rugs would be a PITA to bring home, but much more silk would fit in a suitcase.

I want silk, spices, and an ibrik.

Charlotte J

Indeed, I suck.

I have the loom, I just haven't ever gotten it warped.

Charlotte J

Let's say that I want to make a garment that was originally made out of narrower fabric. That narrower fabric was pieced together because it was too narrow for the application. However, modern widths of fabric would be plenty to do the item without any additional piecing. So, which do you think is m...

Charlotte J

I cover my hair or use falsies when the real stuff isn't long enough. For SCA, I may wear my wedding ring, but for LH I leave it at home. I would like a nice diamond 14th c. ring. I keep my nails trimmed and don't wear polish or falsies. I might do a small amount of makeup, but only a little conceal...

Charlotte J

Well, any gown, lined in fur, works great for winter. Or do you mean something more specific?

Charlotte J

what about late period? What do you consider "late"? For 14th century, a Bocksten cloak is a simple way to do a period-cut cloak: m If you're willing to do a little more work, I suggest doing a warmer overgarment out of wool, instead of a cloak. Cloaks are kind of a pain to wear, open in ...

Charlotte J

1)The Peal Affinity

PeEl.

I also just found out why Jeff isn't in it more. The photoshoots were mostly held the summer we were dating, and he had... priorities.

Anyway, most everybody already covered the basics.

Charlotte J

I'm dying to make some early Tudor. I have the dress picked out, working class, c. 1500.

For a nice little overview of Tudor by decade (including 15th century to be topical!) this is a good site:

http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/Tu ... index.html

Charlotte J

Jeff, just so you know I'm not arguing with you directly I'm probably coming on stronger than I mean to be because I've heard WAY to many times 'First you cut down a tree.....' .... so any time they could save a little time I'm betting human nature would kick in and they would do it. departing a li...

Charlotte J

Burnley and Trowbridge

Based in Williamsburg, VA, they offer affordable wools and cater to reenactors. They also carry linen and silk, but I've never ordered those fabrics here.

Charlotte J

Women worked. That might mean the fields, it might mean keeping the household. That does not, however, mean that they were able to exercise many rights, even if a few did.

Charlotte J

Black Swan Designs wrote::lol: I bet.

Where did you find the fabric?

Gwen

Jeff actually had it sitting around for years (from back when we didn't have kids to spend all of our money on). He's pretty sure it came from Thai Silks. Last I looked they didn't have it, but if they ever do again...

Charlotte J

Black Swan Designs wrote:That's a nice gown Charlotte, good job! [thumbsup]

Thanks! You might be able to see the doublet peeking out at the neck a bit - that part's yours! He is very shiny in person.

Charlotte J

I did Jeff's most recent gown in a silk damask. Takeaway lesson? Never experiment with a new pattern and theory using the *good* fabric. I was messing around with different pleat styles, and I'm not entirely happy with the way they turned out, or with the pattern on the sleeves (which was also a new...

Charlotte J

Oh, I don't really disagree. Unfortunately, people deliberately or mistakenly misread the actual rule - which bars making people feel as though they must attend a religious service in order to participate, that's it - as a bar to any depiction of religion at all. That's quite a different barrel of ...

Charlotte J

Black Swan Designs wrote:There you go- advice from the uber-historical groups.

My own preference for wool, or rather, keeping it to fabric that I can afford for wool or silk, is strictly my own. I fully recognize that everybody has different goals!

Charlotte J

Sorry Gwen, I realize my question was vague. I'm specifically looking for appropriate brocades (or whatever the correct term should be) for making a similar pleated coat. Most of the ones I find are for furniture and have a plastic backing. Thanks. ~Chris I think that G Street, or even Jo ann or Ha...

Charlotte J

Pish.. the One True Century... bah... we are the Yakuza to your Mafia... The Fifteenth Century... Not your grandfather's mafia... Although, my next two big projects will be fourteenth century, and THEN early 15th. I LOVE the early fifteenth - so often grouped in with it's earlier cousin, and oversh...

Charlotte J

Cite?

(Hm, I think I'm glad I was offline all weekend...)

Charlotte J

Just an FYI though, the artist of the Beauchamp Pagent is disputed, but nobody (that I have heard of) credits them with being English. There is one camp that argues a Flemish artist, and another that argues German - specifically the Master of the Wolfegg hausbuch being suggested. There are at least...

Charlotte J

That is the sort of hood or headcloth on the midwife that might even fit under a hennin (not the image of the woman kneeling the the foreground), but, the image is of a midwife (midwives definitely were commoners), and the type of hood clearly isn't the winged hood with lilirip that began the discu...

Charlotte J

sha-ul wrote:the picture...

Yabbut - it's the bigger versions that provide the most useful detail!

Charlotte J

Gwen, Thanks for providing all of those images! I've been wanting to sit down and do some real digging, but just haven't had the time. I figured taking a week off from work would give me actual time - HA! Here's one with just the kirtle, no V-neck gown. I'm actually hoping to dig up more of these - ...

Charlotte J

you know, this thread doesn't have nearly enough crazy hats for this to be 15th C Oh, ok. And I'm with Gwen, I barely have any time to make pretty girl clothes anymore. Usually it's stuff for my three guys. I'm dying to just make something pretty out of a picture... (Oh, and Chef? Edward also has f...

Charlotte J

If you don't think he's a thug, you haven't tried getting him to go to bed...

Charlotte J

I will correct myself as I was wrong, I went and looked it up, I used an incorrect term - the heraldic descriptive is "a French wives hood" - I was wrong to describe it as a Flemish wives hood, but the hood is what is showing in those images on Maries site. This is what we're talking abou...

Charlotte J

As I pointed out in regards to the idea put forward by Charlotte that the lapets indicate one possibly being worn under a henin, providing the hennin in question actually has lappets, you would have to have a tardis for a henin, because longer than shoulder length hair, the hoods mantle, and the li...

Charlotte J

No problem. Sometimes copying facebook images can be weird.

Charlotte J

Right click the image, click "copy image location" (or properties if your browser doesn't have the former) and then paste here: m Then highlight it and use the image tag above. http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v248/5/24/627621808/n627621808_911611_6500.jpg Should work...

Charlotte J

I am not a proponent of 'templars' - I merely posted an image of a coiffure of hair and netting. If that particular style isn't depicted normally, I have seen hundreds of examples of viels and netting in art. You have attatched an importance to the particular form, I suspect to leap at a nit to pic...

Charlotte J

Well, to round the circle, back to the beginning, I think my original point still stands, vis a vis That brocade dress, and that wool hood do not go together. If you were wearing cloth of gold brocade or damask, you would no more be wearing a wool Flemish wives hood, than someone other than Michael...

Philosophical fabric piecing question