The Armour Archive

Karen Larsdatter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_crusade is a good overview; there's an interesting bit at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1212pueri.html too.

Most of the books out on the "Children's Crusade" are fictionalized and/or novels. (How old is your nephew? He might enjoy the juvie books, as long as he knows that they're fiction.)

Karen Larsdatter

The page you mention is awesome! My gf is sure to do a backflip when she sees it! Ã‚Â¿Was glass common material for beads in the XIIIc.? I think so. See m for the main section of the site dealing with historical artifacts by century. And no, sadly the hat isn't with the exhibition. But there are ma...

Karen Larsdatter

Saw http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/art ... e_ss7.shtm and it reminded me of this discussion. (Silk tents are also described in Bumke's Courtly Culture.)

Karen Larsdatter

It strikes me that this sort of ongoing portrayal works especially well if you plan to be a servant to someone in particular; perhaps a friend who portrays a nobleman (or wealthy-enough person to be employing a servant) of a time period and culture in which you are interested. I'd recommend reading ...

Karen Larsdatter

There are more pictures of the belt at http://www.medievalbeads.com/docs/items ... -belt.html

Hay tambiÃƒÂ©n un sombrero -- Ã‚Â¿has visto este sombrero en la exposiciÃƒÂ³n tambiÃƒÂ©n? http://www.medievalbeads.com/docs/items ... anish.html

Karen Larsdatter

or, Look What I Done Found On The Internets:
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/kultdoku/katal ... ml/642.htm

Karen Larsdatter

Yet more books on this general subject at m ... I've been adding more stuff to m as I find it; if you can recommend better groupings within the sections, feel free to let me know. (It's getting kind of unwieldy, but I figure if I can group things together, it'll be a little less hard to find related...

Karen Larsdatter

grimstone bar wrote:His biccies look good too.

They are both tasty and purdy.

Karen Larsdatter

The wafer irons are related to biscuit moulds too, apparently collectable in the 15th century ie the principle of impressing designs onto pastry/dough based foods. Found a bunch on Bildindex too (in the HausgerÃƒÂ¤t section of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum pictures, if anyone else is looking for ...

Karen Larsdatter

Karen Larsdatter

Scroll down to the leather section of http://www.geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/caskets.htm

Karen Larsdatter

A Cathar?

A Bonacon would be downright weird.

Karen Larsdatter

Two sets of links: Plans/Schematics/Construction and Period Examples.

Karen Larsdatter

http://www.geocities.com/wodeford/sensu.htm
http://www.ladydianottos.com/costumin.htm
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/218/218ck/e218ck18.html

Karen Larsdatter

Not that it's searchable by article subject, but you may find the list of academic journals at http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... &catid=247 to be helpful.

Also, try Google Scholar.

Karen Larsdatter

I think this resource is new (or at least, I don't remember it being online when this thread originally came up): Cotton and Cotton Trade in the Middle Ages (Ciba Review 64, Basle, February 1948)

Karen Larsdatter

Keep in touch with Isenfir's chatelaine and seneschal. (Every SCA group is "strange." There is no "normal" or "mainstream" SCA group. It's a group of weird people in general, doing weird things for weird reasons. Of course each group will exhibit its own particular blend of weirdness, which mutates ...

Karen Larsdatter

It looks like the Carlos V tent (which is quite not-white, ca. 1542-1545), is actually appliqued, if this photo is any indication . Other not-white tentage (off the top of my head) in the Field of the Cloth of Gold , Romance of Alexander (Bodley 264) including fol. 43v fer starters, and I know I've ...

Karen Larsdatter

Some extant pavilions:
http://www.greydragon.org/pavilions/basel.html
http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/ma/tents ... rlos_tent/

Some collections of illustrations of pavilions:
http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/ma/tents/pictures/
http://www.geocities.com/historyoftents/
http://www.greydragon.org/pavilions/othertents.html
http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/

Karen Larsdatter

http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... catid=1032

(Well -- nothing specifically helpful there, but some stuff that you might find interesting, anyway.)

Karen Larsdatter

perceval ap cymraeg wrote:With the use of Rayon on a purse seems a problem, perhaps someone could enlighten me in the use of Hemp to make garb.

Check out Hemp and Nettle: Two Food/Fiber/Medical plants in use in Eastern Europe.

Karen Larsdatter

If the blurriness of these photos are too awful to understand, let me know; I can retake the pictures. (The camera was on the wrong setting, which I didn't notice until I was downloading the pictures.) If there's something you'd like to see a better image of, lemme know (while I have this stuff down...

Karen Larsdatter

The sleeve isn't really just a simple "tippet" ... I suspect (based on the fact that this comes up frequently throughout the manuscript, including elsewhere on this folio) it's a pendant sleeve on an outer garment (which I'll call a "cote," for the sake of giving it a name); the sleeve is lined in w...

Karen Larsdatter

chrisvika wrote:That reminds me, I was also going to mention how much the gambesons in the Mayaj... the Masayev... The Crusader Bible looked to be made of linen. I admit this is a subjective opinion, but they sure do look like linen.

Sure! Probably linen, but fustian's a possibility too, I think?

Karen Larsdatter

Is silk an option for outer garments? It can be better for warm climates...right? Silk clothing is certainly an option for outerwear -- there are many extant examples, and there's also a blurb on silk clothing in the Tacuinum Sanitatis (from whence cometh the illustrations posted above). Even a few...

Karen Larsdatter

Karen, absolutely, but remember, the women's option is more expensive to start with, and this is a beginner kit, so another expense for a smock is unlikely. Also, I have to assume the most austere environment in terms of assistance and expertise, so that is why shortcutting the underclothing layer ...

Karen Larsdatter

Omit the tippets. AFAIK, there's no evidence that sleeve-tippets were a separate accessory; they seem to have been part of an outer cote (often a short-sleeved surcoat that ends in what we call "tippets," worn over a long-sleeved kirtle). You've provided a really neat list above. Can I make some sug...

Karen Larsdatter

Bah! Everyone's off checking it all at once and overloading the server. I'll just copy over the 14th/15th century bits (as I've got so far; it's not a very exhaustive list): Several in a 14th century bible historiale (<a href=http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=MAN00838>BNF Fr 152</a>), including fol. <a...

Karen Larsdatter

Oh, look! Coifs!
http://geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/coifs.htm

Karen Larsdatter

it looks as if he's not wearing civvies, just his arming clothes without the armour. That's my impression, too. The illustrator of the Ellesmere Chaucer (c. 1410) was pretty good about following Chaucer's descriptions of the pilgrims. (You can go to the bottom of http://geocities.com/karen_larsdatt...

Karen Larsdatter

Is there somewhere I can find the lancelot manuscript (Francais 343, Bib nat') on the web that Cet has mentioned? Looked for it on Gallica but could not find that specific manuscript. Did a bit of searching (using "Lancelot" as a search term; looks like Lancelot is depicted in red-and-white diagona...

Karen Larsdatter

I wonder where the Parson got his? Well, it's not like the Parson really has black and red hose ... he's providing a detailed inventory of the clothing atrocities of his time -- the sin of pride as evidenced in the "superfluitee of clothynge." Basically, in that section, he's telling us that people...

Karen Larsdatter

Is there any evidence that shows parti coloured garments cut diagonally instead of vertically? I haven't seen anything like that , but it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. (I think I've seen diagonal stripes, though I can't recall where at the moment. Perhaps I'm remembering something like the il...

Karen Larsdatter

Try asking on the SCA-Milliners mailing list, if you don't get an answer here.

Karen Larsdatter

Found some examples on bags: BNF Fr 185, fol. 47 and BNF Lat 18104, fol. 181v

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15th-16th century linen armor

Re: "Wafers"?

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Re: diagonal parti coloured garments

Re: diagonal parti coloured garments

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