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Karen Larsdatter

Thaddeus wrote:Now how do you pronounce that?

Usually "th[img]http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/abreve.gif[/img]t" but sometimes "th[img]http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/schwa.gif[/img]t."

Karen Larsdatter

Some webpages with patterns and/or instructions:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... /hose.html
http://www.greydragon.org/library/underwear3.html
http://www.historiska.se/histvarld/drak ... f/hosa.pdf
http://www.guerriers-avalon.org/chausses.html
http://lerozier.free.fr/chausses.htm
http://members.shaw.ca/nessaofthelox/Me ... entury.htm

Karen Larsdatter

I came across this curious garment while looking for something else. It is from Yates Thompson 13 , dated to 1325-1335, in the British Library. Huh, neat! If I'm reading the illustrator's caption correctly -- I am neither a French-speaker nor am I hagiographically hip -- isn't this is St. Francis o...

Karen Larsdatter

Well, I met my significant other in the SCA (at a fighter practice, actually) ... I'd recommend is considering what activities go on in your local area that she'd be interested in that you could both enjoy together. (Maybe the Dance Practices, or the weekly Creativity Nights?) Be sure to bring her t...

Karen Larsdatter

Ran across this whilst flitting about the internet ... not that the link is safe for work (or for representing at a high school, for that matter). BNF Fr. 2810, fol 183v (Edited to note: Wasn't sure if this thread was just for representing medieval disease in general, or the plague in particular.)

Karen Larsdatter

Some additional examples of separate hoods worn with cloaks, which seem to be more prevalent than hooded cloaks in this period, though I'm not sure that came across in my earlier posting. Lots of illustrations of pilgrims The Bocksten Bog Man , 14th century Wool merchant c. 1400 William Grevel, 1401...

Karen Larsdatter

Well, there's this illo in the Manesse Codex , but I'm not sure if there's some sort of additional context to consider (for example, whether the woman in the illustration is meant to be a member of a religious order, or something). That style of hooded mantle reappears in this illustration , too. Bu...

Karen Larsdatter

Flittie wrote:I just wondered how much of the text and patterns are trustworthy.

The only things I trust out of Kohler are the photographs.

Karen Larsdatter

Cut the fringe off.

Find a suedecloth of similar color, and create a panel which attaches to the seam along the inside leg, goes across the shin, and attaches to the outside leg seam with buckles, buttons, ties, or clasps (depending on what style & period you're intending to approximate).

Karen Larsdatter

Wasn't sure if these were the "one or two" you'd seen on Bildindex ... Two 15th century bolt-quivers made of leather-covered wood; closer photo ; profile photo of one of them (a caption indicates that it is made of wood and pigskin and ivory) 15th century bolt-quiver made of wood and leather Not exa...

Karen Larsdatter

Some other reproware 14th century cups and mugs: Billy and Charlie : A beaker (there are roughly similar examples in 14th century silver, like this example ) Ironwood Pottery : I don't see 'em online, but he's had a few 14th century mugs for sale at events recently. Medieval Design : Another pewter ...

Karen Larsdatter

I can't imagine a practical purpose for a netted cap on a purse... unless it was to discourage pickpockets? It's possible. Without the cap (netted or otherwise), it's just a big ol' open-mouth purse -- saying "Steal From Meeee!" There is a style of medieval falconer's purse that's constructed this ...

Karen Larsdatter

Ooh, the Tacuinum Sanitatis! (My new summer dress last year was kinda inspired by an illo in the BNF's other Tacuinum Sanitatis manuscript, but it's kind of like the ones in 1673 too.) I prolly oughtta add some links to 1673 to the purses linkspage -- some of these dudes have some interesting purses...

Karen Larsdatter

Continue to kick ass.

Karen Larsdatter

That technique is called trapunto, I believe. Umm ... it'd be trapunto if the surface wasn't embroidered, I think. (At least, I associate trapunto with a sort of all-about-texture, not-about-color sort of technique -- where you're creating your figure by just creating a shaped and raised surface.) ...

Karen Larsdatter

Nifty! Glad to see how the project turned out. Btw, Brizio, there actually is an embroidered bag on Bildindex (which seems to be in either this style or a similar one) with a sweet little puppy-dog on it: m m m Can't quite read what the doggie is saying on the little inscription ... is that the medi...

Karen Larsdatter

There have been a few finds of earrings in the crescent-shaped Byzantine styles in Viking women's graves, haven't there? Byzantine crescent-shaped earrings: Gold and enamel earrings (Byzantine, early 10th century AD) at the British Museum Gold earring with open-work and granulated decoration (6th-7t...

Karen Larsdatter

The Basse Dance Project is the closest I can get you on court dance styles from the time period & area you're interested in. (There are more court dances from 15th century Italy, but I wasn't sure if you would be interested in those.) There aren't records of specific dances done by peasants of that ...

Karen Larsdatter

Cennini's glue recipes: A batter or flour paste for parchment-workers and bookmakers; a cement for mending stones; a cement for mending dishes or glass; fish glue for parchment, paper, wood, or bone; goat glue for painters, saddlers, and wood; and a woodworkers' glue made of lime and cheese.

Karen Larsdatter

This would be a good mailing list for your friend: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-Milliners/

Karen Larsdatter

Some more sections of the Atlantian A&S links that you might find useful are the links on fencing armor and gloves.

(You might also want to take a look at the section of links on Renaissance-era men's hats for wearing off the field, too.)

Karen Larsdatter

Thanks also to you Karen Larsdatter, I have in mind to buy the whole series of the Museum of London books, but now I canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t afford it (hey, remember that IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m just a penniless student! ). It'd cost you very little to actually go to London to view their collection, wouldn't it? (A lot le...

Karen Larsdatter

Jacob wrote:I'm thinking a number of small businesses are bound to still have them in stock. Where's a good one to support?

Try Poison Pen Press (though the last time I saw them, they didn't have any copies of it with them).

Lacis and Castle Furnishings seem to carry the book, too.

Karen Larsdatter

Authentieke Viking broeken has an amalgamation of information from several different webpages on Viking legwear, and Hurstwic: Clothing in the Norse Era briefly talks about undergarments.

Karen Larsdatter

That's true, James, and I really should have paid more attention to the word "German" above. Btw -- here are some living history organizations that focus on Germany (or German personae) in the late 15th century ... Gonfanon Bauer und Bonde 1470-1500 Evocatio Ratisbonensis 1470 The Red Company - 1471...

Karen Larsdatter

Ditto on above recommendations for Thursfield's Medieval Tailor's Assistant . Some additional online resources for making some of the stuff you're interested in: Braies: m m Undershirt: m m Hose: m Hats: m m Hoods: m Boots: m m Other 15th century clothing links: m (Edited to add nifty links to the B...

Karen Larsdatter

http://geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/beds.htm might help. (InsaneIrish's looks like 18th century British campaign furniture, Lachlann's reminds me of 16th century Italian.)

Karen Larsdatter

More examples (though most are later than what you're looking for) in Egan's The Medieval Household: Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450.

Karen Larsdatter

James B. wrote:In the late 15th century the only people I have ever seen wearing hosen and a gown and not a doublet with full hose are the lowest of the low workers in some French art from about 1455 to 1460 ...

FWIW, we see a similar look on the fellas in the Mendel Hausbook, too.

Karen Larsdatter

Interesting discussion of that at http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corp ... 38003531A9

Karen Larsdatter

The kind that comes from sheep.

Karen Larsdatter

You might want to post this question to the Slavic Interest Group (if you haven't done so already); there are several people with Polish personae there.

Karen Larsdatter

Yep -- it's quite definitely a redraw from a brass rubbing. From what I've been able to discern from the original Braunche memorial, there's a texture on the sleeve-linings for Robert, Letitia, and Margaret that I'd interpret as being a fur lining, but certainly the texture on the sleeve-linings in ...

Karen Larsdatter

Want some 14th century recipes?

Karen Larsdatter

Does anyone have reference to an extant 'pendant sleeve'? (As mentioned in <a href="http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=52888">this thread</a>) Not as far as I know. I'm trying to figure out what the inside of them was like. Were they lined or was the edge simply finished? All of...

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