InsaneIrish wrote:Somewhere in the back of my adled brain I remember seeing/reading something about inscriptions embroidered onto clothes in arabic.
Maybe you're thinking of tiraz bands?
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- Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:31 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Surcoat documentation - help please!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 516
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:06 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Liripipe construction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 178
Re: Liripipe construction
The pattern I use is similar to http://www.virtue.to/articles/images/Hood_schematic_2004.jpg or http://members.shaw.ca/nessaofthelox/middleages/pathood.jpg . (More hood-related links at http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=281 .)
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:56 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Historical correct leather purses (15th primary)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 206
- Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:09 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Gothic Inspired Collapsible Camp Chairs
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1480
I figured I could at least be a useful little (?) Internet Fairy and provide a few links to some extant chairs that you might not have seen ... Use Bildindex to find collections of chairs at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne; at the Museum für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt; at the Bayeri...
- Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:26 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Why are handsewn clothes so rare [mostly SCA]?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1976
- Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:20 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Quivers in the 14th century?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 217
- Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:28 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Highland dress circa 1700
- Replies: 26
- Views: 294
Re: Highland dress circa 1700
Before the Clearances: 17th and 18th Century Scottish Costume says:
- Plaids are generally pinned at the shoulder with an iron pin or bodkin, not a penannular brooch, which fell out of use about 600 years prior to this period.
- Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:40 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Looking for crossbow pictures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
I couldn't find many from the time period you requested ... but did find some from the 15th/16th ... so hopefully these aren't entirely useless. http://www.berwelf.de/realien/armbrust_Co/armbrust_Co.html has a photo of a 14th century crossbow, and related accoutrements of the 13th-18th centuries 15t...
- Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:50 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Looking for crossbow pictures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
Re: Looking for crossbow pictures
Are you looking for actual extant crossbows, or artwork depicting crossbows?
- Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:20 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Design help-advice wanted for SCA weapons display stand
- Replies: 8
- Views: 281
You know, I was just looking at a photo from the Kunstgewerbemuseum militaria exhibit and thinking it'd be a keen setup for tournaments and stuff. Maybe the stand they're using for pikes would be good inspiration for a sword-stand. I've also found a 15th century weapons-trunk on Bildindex: http://ww...
- Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:28 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Historical Heraldry: APPLE Looking for an example
- Replies: 4
- Views: 140
Re: Historical Heraldry: APPLE Looking for an example
Parker's Glossary says: Apple, (fr. pomme): the apple-tree is rarely borne; the fruit is more frequently so. Argent, an apple tree vert fructed proper--ESTWIRE. Gules, a bird argent standing upon an apple or--CONHAM, Wilts. Argent, a fesse sable, between three apples gules stalked vert--APPELTON. A...
- Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:36 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Opinions on this illustration...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 335
I call 'em shepherd's budgets.
- Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:17 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Appropriate clothes for a 3-year old in 1471?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 377
Karen: I was hoping you'd reply! Do you have any plans to reactivate your most informative website? Aww ... My most informative website? Which one'd that be? I think http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/ is the most informative one I work with these days ... but that's one of the four or five site...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:03 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Origins of European Printmaking at the National Gallery
- Replies: 3
- Views: 53
Re: Origins of European Printmaking at the National Gallery
And there's gonna be exhibits there on Italian illuminations from the Getty and monumental sculpture from Florence . Nearby are Luxury Goods in England, 1580-1680 and the upcoming one on Ottoman costumes . Edited to add: If you go up to Baltimore, there's exhibits on Italian Renaissance manuscripts ...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:36 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Appropriate clothes for a 3-year old in 1471?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 377
Re: Appropriate clothes for a 3-year old in 1471?
Some links to iconography: Three boys receive some bread , 1462 Dancing children , c. 1465-1470 Schoolboys , c. 1475 Two boys listening to St. Paul , c. 1475-80 A family and servants , 15th century The seven ages of man , 15th century I'd also recommend looking at Childhood in the Middle Ages , an o...
- Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:27 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Late 16thC Northern German Clothing
- Replies: 7
- Views: 129
- Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:12 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Late 16thC Northern German Clothing
- Replies: 7
- Views: 129
Re: Late 15thC Northern German Clothing
Eamonn MacCampbell wrote:Looking for sites that show what was worn by the Northern German peoples around 1590-1600. Anyone have any?
The Leonfeldner Schnittbuch, c. 1590
Introduction to 16th century German Costuming
You could also try the German Ren Costume mailing list.
- Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:23 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: "Wafers"?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 694
Certainly by the time of the Menagier de Paris, wafers seem to be available from a waferer (or rather, the oubloier , I think?), though he provides instructions on when to serve them and what to fill them with. (And another set of hardware to look into would be Scandinavian krumkake irons, which hav...
- Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:51 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: "Wafers"?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 694
- Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:03 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Accurate 12c Tables/Backgammon Set?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 93
Re: Accurate 12c Tables/Backgammon Set?
I don't know that I've seen a board for tables or tric-trac (a similar- looking board but a different game , and no, I'm not hip enough to understand the difference between the boards for tables and for tric-trac) that date all the way back to the 12th century. http://www.anno1476.de/5_alltag/spiel_...
- Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:31 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Curious, any evidence vikings tatooed themselves?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 499
- Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:56 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 12 century costume questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 197
- Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:27 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Yet another post asking for heraldry help.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 388
FWIW, I'm guessing the "Three Rivers" that seyc is referencing in Washington State is different from the Barony of Three Rivers (St. Louis, MO), which has an azure pall wavy on their heraldry. http://www.threeriver.org/3rivers.gif (I'm guessing this request has more to do with the new proposed princ...
- Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:40 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Metal Embroidery: Creating a Persian Cloud Collar
- Replies: 8
- Views: 259
Re: Embroidery Questions
What is your recommended method of transferring a design/cartoon onto fabric? I am planning to use a lightbox to light up my design (now drawn onto tracing paper and sharpied onto transparancy film) to allow for tracing onto the white linen. Is there an EASIER WAY? For my latest project, I'm laying...
- Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:20 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Yet another post asking for heraldry help.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 388
Re: Yet another post asking for heraldry help.
Maybe Argent, a chevron inverted wavy and a pale wavy azure ? It's close to that ... Golden Rivers has a chevron inverted wavy, and here's an example of a pale wavy . If you eliminated the center top section, it could be a pall wavy . Edited to add: If the inverted chevron part (the bit that comes d...
- Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:52 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Metal Embroidery: Creating a Persian Cloud Collar
- Replies: 8
- Views: 259
Re: Metal Embroidery: Creating a Persian Cloud Collar
Here's some instructions for couching (which seems to be what the article was referring to): http://www.classicstitches.com/know_how/know_how.cfm?how_to_id=54&how_to_cat=Stitch%20Glossary&let=C http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/couching.html http://prettyimpressivestuff.com/stitches/Couching...
- Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:26 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 15th-16th century dutch??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 135
Also, here's some articles on names from the Low Countries ; I think the article on 15th Century Dutch names would be the most helpful to you, and it lists some spellings and nicknames related to the name "Conrad." (The surnames are listes deparately .) So -- instead of "Conrad the Mad," you could b...
- Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:42 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 15th-16th century dutch??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 135
Re: 15th-16th century dutch??
There are a couple of mailing lists on Dutch and Low Country personas & history -- SCA-LowCountries , SCA-Dutch , and Medieval Dutch -- and here's some links on Dutch clothing , literature , and museums . You might also enjoy the Dutch History Pages , a study of social life in Holland in the early 1...
- Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:07 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 15th C Jousting Targe/Ecranche Construction.
- Replies: 20
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- Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:48 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Perfume recipes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 85
- Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:25 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Period fabric for tents?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 419
Strongbow wrote:I'm not sure if any period examples exist ...
Couldn't remember if this got answered.
http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/ma/tents/pictures/Carlos_tent/
http://www.greydragon.org/pavilions/basel.html
- Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:43 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: PAdded armour
- Replies: 19
- Views: 483
So the picture shown is the knight and not any of the others listed? In which case he is wearing a pointed haubergon - a long padded garment, the points to attach over harness too, yes/no? The picture shown is indeed The Knight. (Not Palamon, and not Sir Thopas. Just The Knight.) Chaucer tells us (...
- Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:51 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: PAdded armour
- Replies: 19
- Views: 483
What's the best guess? You know, I'm not entirely sure that a hauberk always meant one specific thing or another; it could probably be one or more of the above. (Let's remember, also, that Chaucer has the typical medieval mindset regarding the dress, and presumably the armor, of antiquity -- that i...
- Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:46 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: PAdded armour
- Replies: 19
- Views: 483
Is it just me or is this a wee bit odd? Okay, I think I may have thrown more confusion into this discussion than is necessary. Sir Thopas is a completely different character than the Knight. It's like this. You got a bunch of pilgrims sitting around and telling stories, and the narrator (Chaucer) i...
- Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:45 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: PAdded armour
- Replies: 19
- Views: 483
Okeydokey ... here's my interpretation. The Ellesmere Chaucer illustrators are generally pretty good about following Chaucer's description (and are really only coming in about 20 years after it was written, so we have to assume that they understand the garments and traits he's trying to describe). T...