The Armour Archive

Tracy Justus

Another angle, with text (from 1902). Both photos.

T.

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Chef-- is it this book?

T.

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I hope there will be lots of photos of the casa-raising and the finished building.

Tracy Justus

Y'all know that the Morgan Library has put this manuscript online, right? Thumbnails.

MUCH better detail than the medievaltymes images.

Tracy

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Thanks Charlotte. He's an average size guy but the sleeves are wide enough that they brush both sides of a doorway when he passes through. I enjoyed the project. It forced me to finally track down a copy of Das Prunkkleid des Kurfürsten Moritz von Sachsen (1521-1553) in der Dresdner Rüst...

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Well it wasn't specifically for Pennsic, but I delivered this outfit to a client a couple of weeks ago. (Sorry, I can't figure out how to do attachments.) It is based on this portrait . I'm making a second shirt with the embroidery. For Pennsic I'm making some fighting clothes for a long-time client...

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For interior decoration I can highly recommend The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400-1600 by Peter Thornton, 1991. The focus is on how rooms were arranged and used. It's well organized with lots of pictures and solidly researched (but readable!) text. I'm sorry we won't be going to Pennsic, I'd love...

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In this case natural does not mean white, it means undyed. Wool comes in a variety of natural colors. A Monmouth cap can be both of natural wool and brown.

T.

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In the early 20th c Otto von Falke studied medieval design and published several books on textiles. His History of Art of Silk Weaving is available online in a spanish translation. The front section has the history, with some photos and color plates. The back has plates organized by source and date ...

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Here is a photo -- and the next five after it.

Tracy

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When I saw the child's brig from Chartres I noticed that it has a narrow gilt leather strip appliqued around the edge. One thing that fascinated me was that the strip was 1) incredibly narrow, thin, and even and 2) I couldn't see any joins or kinks. I puzzled over it for a long time and when I read ...

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Oooooh, photos! Please! The moulds that Derian posted are interesting. You can see in the first one that the mouldmaker used all of his stone- there's what looks to be a couple of beads (with divots for the removable cores) as well as the fibulae pins and an arc of half rounds. I wonder if the mould...

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Nice article, Tasha. I'm going to scan and send you my notes on the pourpoint from when I saw it in '04. I made notes on the grainlines and the grain of the wedge at the hip is not parallel to the front and lower back. It was cut obliquely. The wedge looks like it was incorporated into the garment a...

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Yep, that's my (sucky) photo- I wish I'd had more practice with that camera. You are welcome to use them. The photos are here for anyone else who wants to look at them.

Tracy

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Please pass my thanks to your sweetheart for her excellent notes. The book by Lisa Monnas is Merchants, Princes and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1300-1550 and it is fabulous . Imagine the scholarly density of Stella Mary Newton with the readability of Janet Arnold, plus L...

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For wood: boxwood, holly, fruitwood (apple is nice), English walnut (avoid black walnut, which is an American tree). I'd avoid spalted or burled woods, soft wood like linden or non-European woods. Before you start I suggest you heat the butt end of the knife to soften the temper of the handle end th...

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I'll buy a copy. PM sent as well. --Tracy Justus

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I've never been to Southampton but I recognized the house from an English Heritage booklet I have. I thought it looked like the wine merchant's house in Southampton, double checked the credits in The Peel Affinity , then trolled through various combinations of merchant-medieval-house-southampton on ...

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Here. --T.

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A line drawing of the Dordrecht vambrace is in Purses in Pieces, p. 110, fig. 205.

T.

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James- that was my thought too, but all I know about the hat is in the links I provided. Karen- do you know about the knitted hats from the 1583 venetian shipwreck at Gnalic? this is the only pic I could find. The knitting pattern is described in Textile Conservation and Research by Mechthild Fleury...

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A question from my husband reminded me of this hat . I poked around and the only other online photo I could find is here . I know there are some black and white photos in the article published in 1983 in Textile History and eventually I'll track down that article. I was hoping for some color photos,...

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... She might also have realized that there are ZERO "extant layered gambesons" from the medieval period pre-14th century, not "few."... Not correct. There's the sleeve of St Martin, preserveed in the church of Bussy-Saint-Martin , which is from a padded garment of 1160-1250. PD...

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Wade, Mac and Tom together? I've witnessed that before. The conversation gets... interesting. Especially if there's an internet connection. I remember one time when Mac showed us what you can find when you GoogleImage search "barbuta"... There's lots of worthwhile discussion of armor, as w...

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Heh. I can't read it all, but it's in French in what looks like a medieval hand: "Cest la chemise de mons(?) saint loys jadix Roy de France et [and I can't make out the rest]" -- This is the shirt of ? Saint Louis once King of France and... Heather Rose Jones has an article about the const...

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I found this picture of a tent captured at the 1683 siege of Vienna and recently restored and put on display . It is a "20-metre-long, eight-metre-wide and six-metre-high Ottoman state tent with magnificent appliquÃ©s in silk and gold leather". The embedded movie shows the tent being insta...

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In browsing various blogs I came across these photos of the St Louis shirt in Notre Dame de Paris which I though some Archivers would be interested in seeing. He got some nice detail of the finishing of the neck and gore. It appears that the binding is of the same fabric as the shirt, something I'd ...

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Looking at the 3rd photo down, the rope against the purple dag... am I seeing it correctly, are the edges of your dags left raw? Also, in the last photo the hems appear to be turned under only once and the raw edge left exposed, is that correct?

Tracy

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An article on 16th c mousetraps, with specific reference to the Merode mousetrap. (Thanks, Cian!) The mousetrap on Joseph's windowsill which looks like it is of the deadfall variety.

Tracy

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Tom and I live about 15 minutes west of Wade and are willing to host visitors. We have several beds and pretty good libraries and shops. (His is armor, mine is textiles.)

Tracy (Clare de Crecy)

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Double posting because the answer might be of use to Archivers-- Karen, I'm about to make a large order through Amazon. If I navigate to amazon via your website (the "powered by amazon.com" button in the upper left corner) do you get a kickback from it? Or will you benefit only if I buy th...

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Have you tried addall.com for out of print books? They list one copy of Drottning Margaretas gyllene kjortel i Uppsala domkyrka at $28 (plus shipping from Sweden). My 1994 edition has a long gloss in English at the back... I don't know if the 1985 does as well. I've been pleased with AddAll. My firs...

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I just added some more titles to my wish list, thanks to Karen.

The books I'm most looking forward to buying is Merchants, Princes and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings, 1300-1550 and the Charles the Bold catalog.

Tracy (Clare de Crecy)

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Oh! I went to NYC to see the Prague exhibit. It was wonderful but had no armor and only a few depictions of armor. The catalog is worth reading for an overview of the time and place, however. (My favorite artifact was a charming little stoneware beaker encased in carved and painted leather. I want o...

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Die Parler und der schÃ¶ne Stil 1350-1400 ed. by Anton Legner, 1978. It's a five volume catalog of an exhibit of the work of the Parler family, who made many of the tomb effigies for the aristocracy in what is now Germany and Poland. Vol. 1-3 are the catalog; Vol. 4 is essays from a colloquium; Vol...

a surviving 14th century felt hat

a 17th c Ottoman tent

St Louis Shirt photos