The Armour Archive

Karen Larsdatter

Unlazy yourself enough to trawl through http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... &catid=652 ...

Karen Larsdatter

Are you looking to make clothing, or buy it? (Check out the Buckingham's Retinue Guidebook for some ideas of what sorts of things to look for, in either case.)

Karen Larsdatter

I think he's wearing a hood over the cloak, but as you can see from the other illustrations in that Tacuinum Sanitatis (see my hoods linkspage for a list), the mantles of the hoods in that manuscript tend to vary in length and ornamentation.

Karen Larsdatter

Sure -- we see some illustrations of that style of cloak being worn with a hood, like this illustration of an apothecary in a Tacuinum Sanitatis . There's also several men wearing hoods and an overgarment (the sort of thing that's called a gardecorps or courtepy ) in a few illustrations in The Holkh...

Karen Larsdatter

Hi, Tasha!

There isn't much I can recommend in terms of Irish embroidery in that timeframe, because I'm afraid I don't know of any.

One of my favorite resources for period embroidery is the Historical Needlework Resources Website, but you may also like some of the links at http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... t&catid=56

Karen Larsdatter

The collar and the fleece are supposed to be inseperable according to the Order's Regulations. Though Charles and Antoine seem to be "bending" the rules a bit. I've not seen any other portrait of a knight of the Fleece sans collar. Just doing some quick looky-loos in additional portraits. Chain + F...

Karen Larsdatter

What I'm wondering is, was painting ones arms on your pavillion an actual period practice, or is it merely an artistic convention for the purpose of identifying the owner of the tent, or simply the fact that such-and-such a person was present in the camp or situation being depicted? I'd reckon it's...

Karen Larsdatter

Does the remainder of the collar imply anything? That it's a chain of a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece without the pendant? I would suspect that the implication would be a livery collar of someone in fealty to Burgundy; the fire-steel is a badge associated with the Dukes of Burgundy, and ...

Karen Larsdatter

Could I wear one simply because I like the look or would such a collar have an historical status with it? Most of them have some sort of historical context, yep. (The Wikipedia entry on livery collars has a pretty good summary of both the livery collars and the collars of orders of knighthood.) Liv...

Karen Larsdatter

Fire Stryker wrote:And I agree, its very snazzy with it's flints and steels.

Have you seen the insignia at the Schatzkammer? Oo shiny.

Karen Larsdatter

This year at Pennsic, I got myself a similar sorta lady's collar-of-estate with alternating Pelican links and Laurel links from Billy & Charlie ; they also have links cast as roses, jewelled links, and links shaped like the letters A, M, or S. I'd had it made to be fairly short, since a lot of the w...

Karen Larsdatter

Get yourself a copy of Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition: Tudor and Stuart Period Finds c. 1450-c. 1700 from Excavations at Riverside Sites in Southwark by Geoff Egan -- it's a newish book from the Museum of London. It has the information you're looking for.

Karen Larsdatter

http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... t&catid=45

Karen Larsdatter

They're offering the Marc Drogin Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique too. I like that one; I learned littera bastarda out of it, and will do more -- getting away from the SCA-hackneyed uncials, half uncials and so on. I think people overdo those because they're easy -- and because so ma...

Karen Larsdatter

If you're just looking for something that you can wear (in order to display your affiliation with or devotion to St. Michael), you could go with a badge depicting the saint; use Kunera to find 'em. (Click Religieus , then Heiligen , then scroll down to MichaÃ«l .) Billy and Charlie sells a copy of a...

Karen Larsdatter

I know what you mean about the clip-art; I'd like to find their Gothic art motifs book again. I think most of it is really sourced to Victorian Gothic revival, but there was quite a lot under a single cover, so it seemed awfully convenient. Now they not only put out the books, but they give you a C...

Karen Larsdatter

http://www.medievalproductions.nl/compa ... ttern.html

Karen Larsdatter

It's odd, because (IIRC) Benedictine monks had that whole communal property thing going. Personal ownership of items is frowned-upon. Right? The place for books is in the library, not on a person. Girdle book implies personal ownership in a way that the Benedictines were not really big on. Living in...

Karen Larsdatter

Put me in for "not very." Dover does have some good stuff (I am a big fan of their clipart sets, 'cos I use 'em for design projects and publications stuff) but the books you're asking about aren't much on being historically-informative or useful. (You can also look these up on Amazon to see other pe...

Karen Larsdatter

the main book of this time that I have looked at being the Maciejowski bible (I'd love to know about the cover, spine and materials it was made from...). Have you considered getting in touch with the Morgan Library in New York? if only I could find references to a girdle book around 1250... There p...

Karen Larsdatter

Check out the links on bookbinding and 13th century manuscripts (and join the SCA-Binders mailing list).

Is there a specific sort of prayer book you want to do? A psalter? a book of hours? the Rule of St. Benedict?

Karen Larsdatter

More tentmaking tips: http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... t&catid=73

Karen Larsdatter

I'm not sure what he means by a "chain of state." What he's thinking of is clearly not the same sort of thing I'd think of (since what I'm thinking of is really not "chainmail jewelry" compatible). Here's a thread on chainmail necklaces: m Your student might also want to look over the sites linked f...

Karen Larsdatter

We've had discussions here before about The Wondrous Wares of IKEA ... m mostly, but there've been others. We just bought a new pair of outdoor wooden chairs there a few months ago, and we'll probably be going back for a new slat-bed before Pennsic. (But we live in an area with multiple IKEAs within...

Karen Larsdatter

Yeah, I think your local IKEA is about 450 miles from you.

Online retailers would probably be a bit more convenient.

Karen Larsdatter

Glen K wrote:I've almost accepted some folks argument that a more correct modern term might be Anglo-Danish.

Coincedentally, there's an argument that Hereward specifically was actually Anglo-Scandinavian, not Anglo-Saxon -- see Hereward: The Last Englishman by Peter Rex.

Karen Larsdatter

Nick D wrote:Is there a place I can order from online that sells linen for under $15 per yard?

Fabrics-store.com, Fabric.com, Denver Fabrics, Fashion Fabrics Club, and Dharma Trading Company, fer starters ...

Karen Larsdatter

I'm not sure it's so much of a troubadour's fiction as it is a translator/editor's word-choice for a particular re-telling of a story. (For another version -- at least, I have to assume that the Hereward I'm thinking of is the same Hereward you are -- see the edition of Hereward the Wake at TEAMS Mi...

Karen Larsdatter

There's also the Orkney Hood ... not Irish, and not 5th/6th century, but ... er ... kinda close?
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... ehood.html
http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/orkneyhood.htm

Karen Larsdatter

The brat seems most commonly to have been rectangular, and rather voluminous, so that it could be folded several times around the wearer, with longer length indicating greater status ... They are sometimes portrayed as having some sort of hood, or as being folded and/or pinned in such a way that pa...

Karen Larsdatter

Leather-soled hose would be ideal for the first half of that period, IIRC. For the second half, you're looking more at a welted shoe with a curved toe, like the shoes in Moretto's Portrait of a man , 1526 ; I suspect the slashed shoes in Titian's Portrait of a Military Commander (1550-55) are intend...

Karen Larsdatter

Looks like the post I'd tried sending earlier today never made it. In any case -- no, not all medieval girls married young. Some princesses (and daughters of the upper nobility) did, but not everyone. Check out m for some more information about this. I'd agree with Mord's questions above, but I'd al...

Karen Larsdatter

I like the Viking women's dress brooches at Raymond's Quiet Press.

Karen Larsdatter

The typical SCA tabard is mostly based off a few extent examples of a Heralds tabard not a livery tabard or a knightÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s tabard as far as I can tell. If there is a person into heraldry about (*cough* Winterfell *cough*) could you please enlighten us on the historical rules for these type of ta...

Karen Larsdatter

I think its a great idea though to pass these things out to people who are new...who dont have any sort of identifying marks...or ...(and heres the best part of all!) Have kits that you want to hide! Sure, if you need something to cover up; but to tell everyone that they gotta cover up in the exact...

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Re: prayer book construction circa 1250

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Re: prayer book construction circa 1250

Re: Chainmail jewelry

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Re: Late Saxon Knighthood?!??!

Re: Early Period hats/hoods? Gotta keep the sun off!

Re: Shoes, Italy, 1450-1550

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