The Armour Archive

Karen Larsdatter

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010V4VJY?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0010V4VJY">Terry Jones' Medieval Lives</a>, maybe?

Karen Larsdatter

Baron Conal wrote:I'm curious about that the bottom of the cabinet looks like
or what the bottoms of similar cabinets look like.

http://larsdatter.com/cupboards.htm

Karen Larsdatter

I don't have that particular one in color linked from http://larsdatter.com/baths.htm -- but there are a few others (in terms of related imagery in color), which include the leafy thingies.

Karen Larsdatter

Juliana Berners, in the Boke of St Albans, wrote:Thyse ben the names of houndes, fyrste there is a Grehoun, a Bastard, a Mengrell, a Mastiff, a Lemor, a Spanyel, Raches, Kenettys, Teroures, Butchers' Houndes, Myddyng dogges, Tryndel-taylles, and Prikherid currys, and smalle ladyes' poppees that bere awaye the flees.

Karen Larsdatter

Karen, the idea that pendants COULD be hung for certain allegiances and that some differed even on collars of the same order seems to show that A.) pendants are not required. B.) pendants specified a particular allegiance. I think the problem is that I've combined livery collars and collars of orde...

Karen Larsdatter

Manesse Codex, too.

Karen Larsdatter

Well, again, looking at m -- there are a few that are just a plain chain with a pendant that represents the order's badge (Our Lady of the Swan on this portrait ). The notes with V&A 948-1902 indicate that "They ranged from the jewelled gold collars sported by royalty and the nobility to th...

Karen Larsdatter

I dunno. I guess, to me, it boils down to a question of what's more important to you (and/or the recipient of such a thing) -- representation of historical practice/style, or identification within the SCA? We don't (as far as I know) really have evidence of collars as jewelry-of-affiliation in terms...

Karen Larsdatter

Check out m -- there are the two more well-known English livery collars (the Lancastrian esses and the Yorkist roses-and-suns), as well as the French broomcod collar worn by Richard II in the Wilton Diptych . I've also included the badges worn by this man , which are more like pendants on a chain, r...

Karen Larsdatter

Europe? There's gold or silver-gilt. I don't know of any other metals being used. Oo! oo! I know more metals! Yay, me! Copper alloys. That covers a really wide range (including brass and bronze), and it does depend on what you're looking for. FWIW, you'd be better off looking for the right shape of...

Karen Larsdatter

There's more details of which bits were pointed to where at http://larsdatter.com/hose.htm by the way, if you haven't already looked through that.

Karen Larsdatter

I guess what I really need is to see some good reproductions since most of the period stuff I've seen is broken and very aged. I need to know what they would have looked like new to know what I'm looking for. Any resources would be great. Especially 13th-14th centuries. oh yeah, and ANYTHING used t...

Karen Larsdatter

I know about the Gnalic hats, but http://larsdatter.com/knit.htm has an old link to the information about them, which I'll update soon; see http://www.curiousfrau.com/diaries/50/94 for more information and a knitting pattern too.

Karen Larsdatter

I think there's at least one extant pre-1600 Monmouth Cap... Yep. It's here: m More extant hats, in roughly chronological order: ⋅ Extant Bronze Age, Iron Age, Viking, and Medieval hats, caps, and headbands: m ⋅ Additional bibliography relating to sprang caps: m ⋅ An o...

Karen Larsdatter

m of course -- my recommendations for books (usually organized in order of priority on the linkspages, from "this is really good" to "there's a few mentions" to "meh, it's okay " or in some cases "it's a kid's book, but it's on the theme") are on the right-han...

Karen Larsdatter

I suspect that some of the great French Dukes might have worn some sort of head regalia, but some of them were kings in all but name. There was a reconstruction of a pretty spectacular golden hat in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801448530?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&...

Karen Larsdatter

I have a pic of one from the Munich Treasury that is for an English Queen 1370-1380. Bit ostentatious for SCA usage though. Maybe this one? m Along those lines, there's also the crown of Margaret of York, though that may have been intended more as a votive crown than as a crown for Margaret herself...

Karen Larsdatter

Well, it's such a common thing (like shoes or noses or hair) that I really haven't done a webpage about it. Go to Google and do a search for site:mandragore.bnf.fr couronne The first page will give you the best results -- click on "Images" and then in the blank that says "Aller Page&q...

Karen Larsdatter

You can also do a search on my site for "first quarter of the 15th century" -- there's several more manuscripts that come up that way that you can look up at Mandragore to get a good look at how women's clothing is depicted.

Karen Larsdatter

A couple of different c. 1415 sources for looky-loos: ⋅ The TrÃ©s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry ⋅ Fols. 3 , 145 , and 323 (the figure of Justice is atypical for 15th century women; she's dressed in the surcoat of a princess or queen) from a manuscript of the works of Christine d...

Karen Larsdatter

Is that the same piece from http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... p?t=105543

Karen Larsdatter

⋅ The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck ⋅ Last Judgement Triptych by Hans Memling ⋅ The Portinari Triptych by Hugo van der Goes ⋅ The Moulins Triptych ⋅ Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi by Hieronymus Bosch ⋅ St. Anne Altarpiece b...

Karen Larsdatter

Glaukos the Athenian wrote:The problem for me is that I am Greek!!! No lanterns!

Then what was Diogenes schleppin'?

Karen Larsdatter

One. How many of them were heraldic?

(Sorry, am writing on my phone, so I can't see much. The Boy is enjoying his faaaavorite moobie, and just now, the king is crashin' in the dirts.)

Karen Larsdatter

It's not for Practice. It's a Design Tool. Um, sure ... in theory. We actually have extant tablets where the writing is still readable. I don't recall any that have a drawing or design - just writing. (sometimes the writing's still legible, which is nifty.) I see a few other problems with the conce...

Karen Larsdatter

You know, what's funnier than how frequently this thread comes up - when you all sigh over these pretty, pretty dresses that all the boys seem to want to wear - is how nobody seems to have found any compelling evidence for historical accuracy, or some realistic basis in medieval iconography, or what...

Karen Larsdatter

The second is: Bible historiale of Jean de Vaudetar, 1371-2. this page 1372 The Hague, Museum of the Book Ms 10 B23 F2r Looking at grisaille artwork is going to give you an odd impression of how people dressed, though, since the illustrator's just going to dress everyone in white & gray. For c....

Karen Larsdatter

It is a decidedly medieval way of seeing things, from what I can tell. The technical (well, artsy-technical, I guess) word for the concept is horror vacui . There's lots of examples, but one that's leaping on my brainmeats at the moment is the leopard embroidery at Cluny , supposedly "a horse ...

Karen Larsdatter

TallTom wrote:Is someone able to name and/or date the blue and white garment that is worn?

It's funny how often this sort of question comes up

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... p?t=105040
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=99707
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=59656
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=45032

Karen Larsdatter

Sean Powell wrote:I bet Karren Larsdatter has a shields page I need to look at over lunch.

http://www.larsdatter.com/painted-shields.htm

Karen Larsdatter

"Model books as in references?" Yep, quite a few survive in book form and also reference is made to model sheets, ie studies or patterns, some of which also survive. Did I post this earlier? (I can't remember, I've been kind of under the weather recently. Anyway -- I've got a whole bunch ...

Karen Larsdatter

Halbrust wrote:Is this historically correct? Plausible?

Umm ... lemme get this straight.

You're making a reproduction of someone else's reproduction ... and you're asking what's historically accurate for the lining?

Karen Larsdatter

Actually, there's lots of extant sketchbooks and such - IIRC I have some linked from m - as well as some preserved sketches (the more valuable ones have been preserved because they're identified as related to a particular artist and/or a final work. There's also bits like Onfim's birchbark doodles, ...

Karen Larsdatter

It depends on the competition, entries, region, etc. Back when I was KMoAS around here, I encouraged competition coordinators to meet with their judges to go over expectations and such (for example, emphasizing adherence to the competition theme rather than workmanship in a competition for kids). I ...

Karen Larsdatter

Enforcement of sumptuary law also varies from country to country. (See "Problems of Enforcement and the Failure of Sumptuary Law" in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199247935?ie=UTF8&tag=suggestion-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=019924...

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