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Karen Larsdatter

I wonder if they could get away with something like the Dharma Trading Company Morroccan tunic (which can be dyed to whatever colors you like); the lovely thing about a hood is that they can probably get away with an adult size, if there's one that you like, and it'll fit them fine. (My son wears a ...

Karen Larsdatter

King Solomon's feast. The women wearing crowns are a few of his wives. There's a description on p. 35 of King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation . Edited to add this description, too: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=a6FJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA631&ci=474%2C1018%2C390%2C231...

Karen Larsdatter

Found a few more examples of the "leather" (?) style of collar: m m m m m m m m m m m etc. Also, I'm going in and tagging all of the Effigies & Brasses entries that feature livery collars, so you can get to all of 'em from m -- though obviously you can still get to a sorted & chron...

Karen Larsdatter

I don't think I've seen evidence for onyx beads on a paternoster (I think I've added a few hundred to m now) , but there's a lot for jet. ⋅ Item, unes grans patenostres de jayet noir. (1380) ⋅ Item lego MatildÃ¦ uxori ejus ac meÃ¦ sorori duos annulos aureos, unum cum lapide rubio...

Karen Larsdatter

Hmmm. Sorry about that. (French is one of the handful of languages I can mostly read, and this is a medieval form of French, too, so I'm a bit bungly on a lot of the words.) 3496 includes a blue silk gown with flying birds; 3518 is a garment in blue (velvet?) embroidered with fleurs de lys. I'm not...

Karen Larsdatter

Jestyr wrote:It seems it would be a good idea to have a kid garb swap online.

I've heard of them happening at events. Saves even more money -- no shipping, and you can actually see whether the clothes will fit your child.

Karen Larsdatter

I was looking through the Inventaire du Mobilier de Charles V, Roi de France (for descriptions of paternosters and pomanders , really) but I remembered the conversation we were having here, and found a bunch of entries that are somewhat applicable, including: 3496. Item, une autre robe de troys garn...

Karen Larsdatter

Materials such as coral, pearl and wood were often used in paternosters not only for beauty, or availability, but because of their light weight. One of the interesting things I'd found while adding more quotations to m was this bit from Memorials of London and London Life in the XIIIth, XIVth, and ...

Karen Larsdatter

As a squire to a Duke I was considering a livery collar similar to the one at the top of the page I linked in red leather with our House motto across it in metal leters and an enameled badge of my Kinight's arms hanging from the front. [EDIT] These leather collars are made by Albion Works: m Though...

Karen Larsdatter

Just added a whole bunch of period descriptions from wills & inventories to http://larsdatter.com/rosaries.htm -- they're arranged chronologically among the extant examples, for comparison.

Karen Larsdatter

You can find some 14th century paternosters and other period paternoster-beads (including some images of 15th century paternoster-makers) at m I don't think I've seen evidence for amethyst in paternosters; I suspect (but am not entirely certain) that when a medieval lapidary is discussing the proper...

Karen Larsdatter

If you can show that the name you want was used as a surname in sixteenth-century England, that will work. FWIW, it appears as a surname on the following articles; I've included the spellings it appears under. ⋅ Surnames in Durham and Northumberland, 1521-1615 : Carlell, Carlile, Carliol...

Karen Larsdatter

I've got a set of links of images of 14th-16th century sailors at m If you'd asked about earlier in the 16th century, I'd be pointing you at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0954402944?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=09544029...

Karen Larsdatter

There's certainly evidence for clothing with surface decoration, but I'm not sure whether that's really what's being asked about here. (For what it's worth, there's several descriptions of that in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/085115767X?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&...

Karen Larsdatter

Is there any evidence of a surname (specifically a place name) being used as a given name in the SCA Period? The concept itself isn't totally unheard-of, but what you really want here is to find evidence of the name 'Carlisle' as a given name , rather than the random bits of evidence for given name...

Karen Larsdatter

Are there any other uses for the woven trims (and/or decorative stitching placement). IIRC, there's some narrow-ware trimmings on the inside of garments -- I want to say that this is covered in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1843832399?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&c...

Karen Larsdatter

It depends on what you mean by a "houppelande," really, but you might want to check out some of these threads:
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... p?t=105040
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=59656
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=99707

Karen Larsdatter

And some others (though obviously, quite different from the Pennsic striped socks):
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_a ... &id=121240
http://www.deutsches-strumpfmuseum.de/g ... d08_08.htm

Karen Larsdatter

Should also add: For a pattern for a cloth (i.e. silk velvet, etc.) version of the flat cap, see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002E5BEUE?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002E5BEUE">Lynn McMaster's Flat Cap pattern</a>. Yo...

Karen Larsdatter

Basically for SCA and Adrian Empire. 10' rule I guess. As far as a year? I dont know. I don't even really have a persona in those orgs. Just trying to keep to the the pre 17thCentury appearance rule. If I had to pick a year? I guess 1530+(ish) Well, if you like how it looks, go for it, then. 1530is...

Karen Larsdatter

If I can get one in a single color and its not gigantic I guess that would be good? Good for what? It depends on what you're aiming for -- historical accuracy (and if so, for what sort of re-creation in particular?) or is this more of a "because I like it" sort of costume deal? Because bo...

Karen Larsdatter

See the knit caps - especially the flat caps - at http://larsdatter.com/knit.htm

Karen Larsdatter

Technically, Bocksten Bog Man wore two pairs of hose (or chausses, or whatever you'd like to call 'em) -- this set and this one (and presumably a matching one, similarly unfitted).

Karen Larsdatter

A better question would be why the nobleman is sharing his fine linens and eating-wares (and serving-men) with the soldiers and their women, and eating with them

Karen Larsdatter

When I see SCA-related photos I like on Flickr, I put them into my Favorites. You can access these at http://www.flickr.com/photos/strawberrykaren/favorites/

Here's some feast-related photos from those:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arwensouth/266375781
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arwensouth/266375730
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quadrapop/161638724
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hagenvonsc ... k/88888053
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hagenvonsc ... k/88887990
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hagenvonsc ... k/88888239
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hagenvonsc ... k/88887841

Karen Larsdatter

earnest carruthers wrote:There were raised pies as well, using a cylindrical former/hands, small medium and HUGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SH7MBKPlc

Karen Larsdatter

...Loving every period within the SCA time frame? Not even just one area, Lord no.... You build webpages. Lots. About every little thing that pops up and makes you say, "Huh. That's interesting." (Currently in progress? Ladders. Totally inspired by the examples in the Wolfegg Housebook, b...

Karen Larsdatter

Some more books that might be helpful - m (I'd set up sections of books on there for various personas/periods/countries that seem to come up as questions every now and then -- this section's for 14th-15th century England in general. You can get to the other sections from m -- navigation's on the lef...

Karen Larsdatter

I'm guessing, based on the orthography in the original post, that it has to do with Revival's "Bag-Sleeved Cotte." Right?

Karen Larsdatter

Yep, right manuscript. See ff. 5v , 20 , 27 , 30v , 37v , 38v , 83 , 83v , etc. More of them have kind of an open sleeve at the bottom/cuff area, rather than coming back and fitting at the wrist ( fol. 52 for example, though obviously there's a lot of variation within this manuscript), but some of t...

Karen Larsdatter

You know, I think I've seen references to pickled meats in pre-17th century European contexts, but not dried or dehydrated meats.

Karen Larsdatter

As opposed to out-of-period 14th century art? Posting from my phone at the moment, but there are a few in the c. 1390 Tacuinum Sanitatis - go to BNF Mandragore and search for Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673 (at least I think that's right, but someone can correct me if it's otherwise). Also thought ...

Karen Larsdatter

m Buncha sources linked from there. Any particular style or period or anything? If it were me, I'd look at the maiolica dishes and enamelled glassware that was commissioned for 16th century weddings (both of which are covered on linkspages at larsdatter.com, but I@m posting this from my phone, so I...

Karen Larsdatter

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:I was going to add this, just in case anyone wanted to use a "teepee".

There are actually several examples of conical tents -- see also http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server ... 011642.JPG

Karen Larsdatter

Where are you seeing the canvas encampment walls at Lauingen? I'm seeing a wooden fence, which may or may not have been constructed as part of the encampment. (There's also the Wolfegg Housebook illustrations, which show a sort of wall on wheels -- it's circling the encampment at m but also check ou...

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