The Armour Archive

Karen Larsdatter

Actually, it's Peter Collingwood (just in case anyone wanted to look it up by author for purchase). Amazing book, GREAT resource. Also a tad advanced; not the one I'd recommend for a beginner, but it's *the* book for advanced weavers (that I know of, anyway). "Card Weaving" by Candance Cr...

Karen Larsdatter

After looking at some images in the Maciejowski Bible and I am noticing a lack of trim work on the tunics. Was there not any trim work done during the 14th century? Maciejowski Bible is c. 1250. There's some textile ornamentation visible in the manuscript, but it's more hinted at than detailed. My ...

Karen Larsdatter

Also, the exhibition book is available on Amazon (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300148941?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0300148941">Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages</a>).

Karen Larsdatter

⋅ Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors - Of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist in the City of London ⋅ The early history of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London; with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members &sdot...

Karen Larsdatter

Some tailors from Nuremburg offer some suggestions to you: ⋅ Bartl Harder has an interesting array of tools, including something that looks like a drafting compass. ⋅ Hanns Heinla keeps his tools on an interesting little table. (I wonder if that round thing on a pedestal is his...

Karen Larsdatter

Found another version of the garment like the one in the photo at the top of this thread, though it doesn't have armorial decoration:
http://utu.morganlibrary.org/medren/sin ... A000109061

Karen Larsdatter

Several listed at http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... &catid=408 too.

Karen Larsdatter

m has a lot of images & artifacts that'll help you with this endeavor. (Note especially the different ways that garments were displayed and/or hung up.) In terms of boxes, I'd recommend looking at the bentwood boxes ; there are also baskets used to contain sewing tools . In terms of fabric displ...

Karen Larsdatter

Oo, just remembered another good one; Margaret (Pelagius) in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691001545?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0691001545">The Golden Legend</a>; you can read her story in the Medieval Sourcebook . (...

Karen Larsdatter

It is a common Medieval theme, usually Medieval stories involving 'transvestitisim' revolve around virginal, good young woman, travelling with elderly relative, disgusing themselves as 'youths' on the road to protect their virtue. A few examples (IIRC) in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris (I enjoyed...

Karen Larsdatter

Isabella E wrote:FYI a bunch of the British Library links are broken.

Thanks -- they keep moving stuff around on that site.

Karen Larsdatter

http://larsdatter.com/mens-surcoats.htm may give you some ideas for other styles, too.

Karen Larsdatter

There's also the SCA Spaniards and Medieval Spain mailing lists.

Karen Larsdatter

Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor will be at the National Geographic Museum from November 19 to March 31.

Karen Larsdatter

So let's say "Enough!" to the Vert, two trumpets in saltire Or on the demi-sleeves of heraldic tabards. (Don't even get me started on baldics...) You know, I bet it would look pretty good (for those heralds who are more "at large" and want to signify their status as such) to wea...

Karen Larsdatter

Thanks, Eamonn! I gotta say, though, the really unreal ones are the 18th century examples, like: m m m m m There's an early 19th century tabard available from m too. But again, the examples above are all 18th century, so they're nifty, but probably not what you're really looking for. (There's some ...

Karen Larsdatter

I suspect that "angling" (i.e., hook, line and pole) was mostly a 15thC and later concept. I've found it a good bit earlier at m -- though I don't tend to go terribly early on the linkspages -- but there's a 13th century fishing monk , a 13th century fishing grotesque , an early 14th cent...

Karen Larsdatter

m m In terms of books, look for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160096446X?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=160096446X">A Treatise of Fishing with an Angle</a> (written before 1496); I think there's also some fishing gear in ...

Karen Larsdatter

Thanks, Mac!

Karen Larsdatter

Since this topic comes up from time to time

I've set up a new linkspage with pre-17th century images of women wearing armor:
http://larsdatter.com/women-in-armor.htm

Karen Larsdatter

More at m -- including Cennini's instructions for making a crest. Here's a couple of toy goats, though, if that's what you're looking for ... ⋅ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007QO7PG?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativ...

Karen Larsdatter

Aaron wrote:Thanks for the help, but I'll have to go into the 14th Century so I can cover up that helm.

Would a crest be too grandiose?

http://larsdatter.com/crests.htm

Karen Larsdatter

I'd written a bit on mourners' clothing at http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=500 in case that's useful.

Karen Larsdatter

I like http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/ for English women's names (includes several that are more Anglo-Norman in origin; look especially for names with an OFr derivation instead of an OE derivation); it provides dates for each example, which is nifty.

Karen Larsdatter

You might also check out the early 15th c. hair styles in the Gaston Phoebus hunting book. I have the printed version called..... Medieval Hunting Scenes ("The Hunting Book" by Gaston Phoebus), Text by Gabriel Bise after Gaston Phoebus Translation by J.Peter Tallon Liber SA,Fribourg-Genev...

Karen Larsdatter

I think (for a c. 1461 man's gown) I'd be looking at something like these: ⋅ The Seven Sacraments Altarpiece , especially the bridegroom ⋅ The Ordeal by Fire (especially the brocade gown in the left near background, and the green (?) gown in the right foreground) ⋅ P...

Karen Larsdatter

Does anyone have an example of a cloak that would be worn in 1461 AD England (+/- 10 years)? Closest I've got at m (in terms of specifically English) is John Martyn . The largest collection of foul-weather gear imagry I have seen, is in Das Mittleateres Hausbuch (look to borrow a copy of "Venu...

Karen Larsdatter

***Any help on the women's clothes? I'd say to look at the drawings of the Housebook Master for starters, for both men's clothing and women's clothing. Here's a few online galleries: m m m m <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3791319914?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp...

Karen Larsdatter

do you know of sources of extant 13thc heraldric surcoats, like the ones depicted in the Mac Bible, that report on fiber composition? Not off the top of my head. But then & again ... does the Mac Bible actually have any heraldic surcoats? m has two images of heraldic surcoats that date to aroun...

Karen Larsdatter

I am waaaaayyy too old skool. Thank God for Karen! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816001383?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0816001383">The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti</a> is good (doesn't it have a translation o...

Karen Larsdatter

... but on the other hand, it doesn't look like medieval surcoats were made out of linen, either. It seems to be a good fiber choice for creating a modern and comfortable garment that works as a tabard, if that's what you want for "doing it right."

Karen Larsdatter

Dante, if you have access to any of the extant Tacuinum Sanitatis manuscripts, there are a ton of pictures of men (and their hairstyles). They're mostly dated to between 1390-1400, northern Italy. Two of the Tacuinum Sanitatis manuscripts are online at BNF Mandragore . To get to them: ⋅ G...

Karen Larsdatter

Check out the murals at Castello Buonconsiglio (go to http://larsdatter.com/booksofhours.htm to find links to these; I can try to find more detailed views, if there's one you'd like to see in better detail) and Runkelstein Castle (see http://www.runkelstein.info/runkelstein_en/history.asp for some of them, others are online elsewhere).

Karen Larsdatter

Dunno if http://larsdatter.com/mens-surcoats.htm will help you, but it might.

Karen Larsdatter

You know, some fancy cutouts ... m shows some fancy cutouts, for example; it's a 15th century shoe at the Musee du Moyen Age . (But I don't know for sure whether that's a man's shoe, or a lady's.) I'm trying to think whether I've seen fancy surface decoration on a lord's shoe, and nothing's springi...

Re: Medieval Drawings on display in NYC

Other assorted stuff

Re: Outfitting a Tudor Tailor's Shop

Re: What do you call this garment?

Re: Places for trim?

Re: Outfitting a Tudor Tailor's Shop

Re: What do you call this garment?

Re: SCA & Spanish personas?

Re: Fishing

New linkspage: Women in armor

Re: need help with a name

Re: 1461 AD Cloaks?

Re: Need soft kit help/ideas 1490-1510

Re: short italian hairstyles?

Re: Surcote and armour