The Armour Archive

Karen Larsdatter

You will find 'tourney costumes' of ~foolish fellows with really long ears in the late 15thC? m shows jesters in the sort of clothing you describe, but here's some illustrations in particular showing them relating to tournaments: m m m These aren't really directly involved in the tournament combat,...

Karen Larsdatter

Searching the Middle English Dictionary online still gave me no hits for "huskin," "husken," "hufkin," or "hufken." One of the things that comes up (especially with given names) is the suffix -kin as a sort of diminutive -- i.e., Hopkin deriving from 'Hobb' +...

Karen Larsdatter

I've collected a few images of acrobats & jugglers whose performances have to do with swords and/or knives. Here's a few of them: ⋅ m (first quarter of the 13th century) ⋅ m (c. 1340) ⋅ m (1558; apparently a woman) I don't think I've seen any jesters entertaining...

Karen Larsdatter

FWIW, here's one of the eight-paneled vessels (from my flagons linkspage):
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_ ... ID=4894541

Karen Larsdatter

Not to derail this thread too much, but I spotted a new book on the V&A site (also available through Amazon once it comes out), and it looks like this might be a good book for you 16th century types to add to your holiday wish-lists. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851775811?ie=UTF8&a...

Karen Larsdatter

Found a relevant bit (probably from the same source material you read in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0750931671?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0750931671">The Great Warbow</a>) in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?...

Karen Larsdatter

Theophilus, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486237842?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0486237842">On Divers Arts</a>. There's also some pewterers in the Mendel Hausbuch: m m And one in the Standebuch: m There's also some in...

Karen Larsdatter

Benedek wrote:I know of the basic Caftan and such, I would like to see what info you all have on headgear, pants, footwear and such.

http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... &catid=931

Doktormean/ Deitmar wrote:my wife is looking for 13th centry clothing, Seljuk Turk if any one has any info that would be awesome also

http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... &catid=932

Karen Larsdatter

Don't hit yourself too hard, dude.

That linkspage only existed about ten minutes before I posted the reply above ... and even then, it was a bit more rudimentary than when I threw it out on the larsdatter.com RSS feed a few hours after that.

Karen Larsdatter

http://larsdatter.com/mazers.htm

Karen Larsdatter

I probably found it through http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/ -- but it's not coming up through the path I'd have thought it'd be in (it looks like it ought to have been under Materielle Objekte / kaestchen).

Karen Larsdatter

Period recipes for leather dyes can be found at http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... catid=1258

You can find some leather-covered caskets at http://larsdatter.com/boxes-leather.htm -- you might find the polychromatic painted one at http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server ... 014525.JPG to be inspiring.

Karen Larsdatter

These are different from the Jelling Dragon example (I'm not sure how close you want to get to it): ⋅ m - 15th century knives at the NiederÃ¶sterreichisches Landesmuseum ⋅ Several different styles at the Historiska Museet in Sweden (not all of them late medieval, though); go to ...

Karen Larsdatter

My collection of links to 14th & 15th century rings are at http://larsdatter.com/rings-3.htm if that's helpful.

Karen Larsdatter

Oswyn_de_Wulferton wrote:Anyone have any ideas?

Yep.

A few.

Starting with this:
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi00773g13a.jpg

Karen Larsdatter

There are a few at http://larsdatter.com/list-fence.htm & http://larsdatter.com/galleries.htm

Karen Larsdatter

Hey moderators!!! could we condense this thread down& make it a sticky for folks, an all training links page almost like a Karen Larsdatter type linkspage Hee Well, if you guys come up with content that you'd like me to post on an actual Karen Larsdatter linkspage, I'd be happy to arrange it.

Karen Larsdatter

The reason why I doubt that it's sugar is that the sugar loaves I've seen from that time seem to be a lot smaller (see m for some images); the sugar trade at the time that this painting was done would have (IIRC) been coming from Morocco, Cyprus, etc., so it's not that I doubt that it's sugar based ...

Karen Larsdatter

Is anyone selling purse frames of that style? I think I'd like to make one myself. The one frame I've got (just the bar & swivel, really) is from a 15th century find. But it's the most historically-accurate one I've seen so there's that. Cian's was made to resemble the Medieval Design purse equ...

Karen Larsdatter

Started developing http://larsdatter.com/bag-hats.htm (and http://larsdatter.com/acorn-hats too, but they seem to be more of a 15th century thing so far).

Bertus, something about that description made me think of the illustrations in the Wolfegg Housebook.

Karen Larsdatter

It's interesting to see the range of definitions that the Middle English Dictionary finds for "courtesy."

Karen Larsdatter

Pennsic was a bit more of a spur-of-the-moment trip for us than it's been in the past. I made a linen tunic and a linen cote for The Boy, both out of scraps I'd saved from past projects. (So now, conveniently, he has garb that coordinate with his dad's. Aww.)

Karen Larsdatter

All right, all right, http://larsdatter.com/chaperons.htm is in development now ...

Karen Larsdatter

That last bit aside, it looks to me as though all through the 14th century the fashionable way to wear the headgear was to flop a bit of it -forward- yet modern reenactors are flopping them to the side, like a santa hat. Why is that? Even if the shape's the same, wearing it flopped to the side make...

Karen Larsdatter

I have been wearing the rolled up liripipe, i.e. chaperone. I have never really been satisfied with exact dates for its use? Would this be an appropriate piece of head gear for circa 1370? It appears in the c. 1350 images I've got linked from m ( Voeux du paon ). (I omit a lot of "chaperones&q...

Karen Larsdatter

Well, I'm going to be a total jerkface, and instead of giving you the translations you asked for, I'm going to give you the actual texts referenced (where I can). Because they're in English already . What language do you want me to translate 'em to, anyway? Btw, I'm reading the bits of <a href="http...

Karen Larsdatter

The one you linked to in the post immediately prior to mine; the revival bag hat. I have a hard time with a lot of Revival's descriptions, in terms of what's authentic to what, etc.; they also seem to take some liberties with the redrawings to help justify the designs that they sell. It's always go...

Karen Larsdatter

What sorts of headwear are you interested in? (What sort of impression are you trying to do?) There's hoods , of course. A few different (early) varieties of "bag hats," like the ones at m (There's also plenty of examples of men not wearing hats, but that have their hair neatly dressed in ...

Karen Larsdatter

Not trying to guide you away from your idea, but what about camping with Enchanted Ground?

Karen Larsdatter

Young-ish. Upper-middle class. Haven't decided married or not though. My persona isn't worked through very well yet, I mostly just wear what works and try to keep it as much in the same TIME as I can, if not the correct social-economic status. I'd still go with a drawstring purse in the "squar...

Karen Larsdatter

#1) This image is interesting because it looks very regional to me, maybe Sienese or Iberian: m The structure of the painting makes me think it's a saint. If so, the purse may also by symbolic and not necessarily representitive of current style. Do you know any more about this image? Yep! You know ...

Karen Larsdatter

Eons ago Karen scared up some b+w pictures of one of these styles of purses (round-top trapezoid) that showed the inner ring and the drawstring "sphincter" of cloth in it, under the flap... Those pics are on another computer that's not on the web right now, but maybe Karen still has them ...

Karen Larsdatter

For knit stuff: m m For nalbinding stuff: m m Granted, neither linkspage is really exhaustive (if you want to see more knit stuff, especially the medieval examples, get your hands on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931499373?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&...

Karen Larsdatter

Well, now that I know what this kind of window is called, I can set up a linkspage for 'em

Karen Larsdatter

Tracy Justus wrote:Anyhoosie, you might look at peddler's gear.

I took a quick bip through http://larsdatter.com/peddlers.htm but don't remember seeing much there -- I guess I ought to look again!

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