The Armour Archive

Karen Larsdatter

Coming as no great surprise, I'm sure

a blog posting on 15th century tents:
http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=1006

(I'm thinking I might combine the list for the 13th and 14th centuries in a future post. Don't really have enough 13th century tents to do much of a blog posting on their own.)

Karen Larsdatter

When is the Emperor's encampment at Grimlinghausen-Neuss? Bildindex had it listed as 16th century. But it's suspiciously similar to an illustration in the Wolfegg Housebook -- m -- and that's got the vague date of "after 1480." They both seem to be copies from the same source, but slightl...

Karen Larsdatter

Take a look through the Paston letters to see a variety of uses -- sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. It seems like often when a knight is initially referenced in the third person, the whole name is used, with "Sir" in front (i.e. Sere John Fastolf , Syr John Paston ). Sometimes he's con...

Karen Larsdatter

Okeydokey! I've set up a blog post (rather than overwhelm this page with a whole buncha links as usual ) -- it's at m -- it's a generic survey of 16th century tents, but I think you'll find some that you'd consider to be "wall tents." I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that term, but t...

Karen Larsdatter

I am still looking for a good 14th cent representation. I'll set up another posting at m with some 14th century tents, too, I guess. (Or should I do 15th century, and then 14th century?) The posting about 16th century tents is kinda long, but it'll be at m tonight, assuming I can get things to work.

Karen Larsdatter

Karen, is there a page on your site with tent links that I haven't found? Nope. There were a whole lot of other pages that dealt with tents, back when I was starting to set up larsdatter.com . Not as many now, what with Geocities being gone. But check out Medieval Pavilion Resources , Surviving Med...

Karen Larsdatter

And I recall a 16th Century woodcut of a field kitchen in which the spit holders had rows of pegs to adjust the height of the spit, or presumably, add other spits... m (It's from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802096247?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&cr...

Karen Larsdatter

From what little I know from watching/listening to my lady, blackwork was also done in other colors...I think red and green were also present. Technically, when we're looking at 16th/17th century embroidery, blackwork is just when it's black embroidery on white cloth -- calling all monochromatic em...

Karen Larsdatter

Ultimately, if she goes with something "Historically Inspired" that doesn't look out of place next my cotehardie then that'll be just fine. If she's heading in that direction, she could look at a long-sleeved "princess-seam" dress; it'll give the same kind of look, but a big fla...

Karen Larsdatter

Authenticity becomes an all-or-nothing effort before you know it. It sneaks up on you and robs you of the enjoyment of creative costuming once you know every little thing you're not doing in a historically documentable manner. Free-form creativity and historically authentic interpretation aren't ea...

Karen Larsdatter

And rthat's fine, Sam. I don't really care what the fiber content of a re-enactor's clothing is. But a lot of the stuff that I've read that directly equates "raw silk" or slubby silks directly with what was available and/or common and/or actually used in the medieval context is really just...

Karen Larsdatter

CiaranBlackrune wrote:Everything I have read seems to indicate that "slubby" silk was indeed the poorest quality of silk.

There's a lot of writing online by people who are trying to justify their use of raw silk, dupioni, and/or shantung.

Karen Larsdatter

I'm just posting from my phone, so I can't check it from here and get you the exact link, but http://larsdatter.com/archers.htm has some sort of bowcase or bow container ... I think.

Karen Larsdatter

Yeah, it's really kind of hard to say with the Tres Riches Heures peasant-women, because they always seem to either have their skirts hitched up ( February , June , September ) or they're bent over & kneeling ( July ) so you can't really tell where the hemline would have fallen. (And here I mean...

Karen Larsdatter

A quadrathon or quadrathlon, I think.

Karen Larsdatter

Explain it in your documentation. I'd also recommend seeing m for my collected thoughts on how to write effective documentation. (Big news: that article is one of two of mine that'll be in the next edition of the Known World Handbook . They're also using Ten Simple Things You Can Do To Impress the J...

Karen Larsdatter

FWIW, I think this illustration has been referenced above (from the Tres Riches Heures) but not linked-to. (Part of the skirts have been tucked up into the belt -- it's not that the skirts are that short ALL the time.)

http://www.wga.hu/art/l/limbourg/06juin.jpg

Karen Larsdatter

I'm going to take a whole different tack on this and say that if it's too long for her , then it's too long. That medieval lady in the illustration just has to stand there in the illustration and look purdy. She will never have to wash a dish, take down a pavilion on a muddy day, or carry her dishes...

Karen Larsdatter

My book recommendations are on the right side of the page at http://larsdatter.com/cutlery.htm -- of course, if you just want to look at the links, they're on the left side of the page there

Karen Larsdatter

I don't know whether this'll help or not, but there's a big exhibition coming to the Met this autumn, The World of Khubilai Khan ; the exhibit book (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300166567?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=...

Karen Larsdatter

Get a copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0896762556?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0896762556">The Tudor Tailor</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0896760839?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as...

Karen Larsdatter

Hah! I was going to suggest sacks.

Karen Larsdatter

Aonghus wrote:Wasn't there an "editable" website where you could make your own Bayeau-tapestry-like images with a java applet or some such...

http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php

Karen Larsdatter

http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/i ... &catid=507

Karen Larsdatter

m has a bunch of examples (in terms of hoods, of course) but I don't think even a dedicated dag-based linkspage would be able to establish much in the way of regional or temporal tendencies. There's bits that occasionally come up - like in the Maciejowski Bible, where there's long dags along the bot...

Karen Larsdatter

Hah, maybe I should post my costumey method of dagging on my site or something (Authentic way seems to be cutting them into the fabric directly or weaving the textile that way in the first place. So this isn't historically accurate, but gets you good-looking dags.) Determine the height of the dag. M...

Karen Larsdatter

Well, I think the variation depends a lot on the fashions in outerwear. In the Middle Ages, a woman's smock generally wasn't visible when she was fully dressed - and in a period when fashionable clothing was relatively fitted through the sleeves and/or torso, additional lumpy bulk from undergarments...

Karen Larsdatter

You can see some illustrations showing how this undergarment looked at m FWIW -- Chaucer refers to this garment as a "smock" (or, to use his spelling, smok ). See also the Middle English Dictionary s.n. "smock" , though they do find one Middle English reference to a "chemise...

Karen Larsdatter

More at http://www.larsdatter.com/painted-shields.htm too.

Karen Larsdatter

Charlotte J wrote:And there are ways of making longer braids with fingerloop. Somebody to help tap, or using your toe, or tying a knot in the middle and braiding in both directions, etc.

It's not a very extensive linkspage, but you can see some examples of how this was done at http://www.larsdatter.com/fingerloop.htm

Karen Larsdatter

You can also see http://larsdatter.com/crests.htm for examples of people wearing crests, how crests were made, etc., though I think you're really more interested in how they looked in armorial illustrations and stuff.

If you're looking at medieval heraldic illustrations, you might also like to see http://larsdatter.com/rolls-of-arms.htm

Karen Larsdatter

CillÃ©ne mac Conghalaigh wrote:The cuffs are drawn from these two examples which looked like cuffs to me however I could see doing it without them.

The guy at far right is from 1470, so he's irrelevant to the discussion (sorry, I didn't see the request for late 16th century until after I posted it).

Karen Larsdatter

FWIW, here's a link to the Froissart exhibition information (briefly referenced on that page):
http://www.invalides.org/pages/dp/foiss ... 5B1%5D.pdf

Karen Larsdatter

BNF Fr. 102, fol. 168, c. 1470 Also, the sailors' clothing from the Mary Rose ; you'll find more about this in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0954402944?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0954402944">Before the Mast: Life and...

Karen Larsdatter

Found more: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... ceslaus_IV.

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