The Armour Archive

Tailoress

Tasha, I have a couple of questions for you regarding your creation. Did he wear a breastplate underneath? Could you please describe the arm construction to account for the baggy elbows and the tighter wrists? This is my time period and I am getting ready to make a few of these so any help would be...

Tailoress

I would like to draw attention to this thread (which pretty much died in OT, because I don't think Muriel knew this forum was probably the better place for it):

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=62845

St. Michaels is looking for recruits at Pennsic this year!

-Tasha

Tailoress

The vambrace and elbow were worn under the fabric? Wow, never would have thought that. I guess that explains why the arms button up. Jason AFAIK, the Charles VI doesn't have buttons on the sleeves -- but the sleeves are designed to give a convenient bagginess around a bent elbow. I wouldn't recomme...

Tailoress

Ceddie, while you take this learning journey, remember that martial garments ran a span between "worn with armour" and "worn instead of armour" (where I'm identifying "armour" as "really hard material"). The Black Prince's jupon and the Charles VI jupon cannot be reasonably expected to defend the to...

Tailoress

Muriel wrote:1 out of 10 may not be interested (jealous maybe, but not interested).

I think I know of what you speak, but my best 1-out-of-10 guy-friend thinks it makes women look Hawt, even if he would never-ever do a thing about it himself.

-Tasha

Tailoress

Small drawstring purses (lined in linen, hand-made silk eyelets, silk tassels, finger-looped braids for the purse strings) - $45 - 60 I highly recommend Muriel's purses -- her workmanship is beautiful. Because she is my friend she did not want to charge me for the one I wanted from her, but I force...

Tailoress

Most of the men can testify to the eye pleasing silhouettes.

Only "most"??

Tailoress

Oh my Lord. If you bring that model to Pennsic, there might be a riot.

Seriously. She'll need bodyguards!

-Tasha

Tailoress

Murdock wrote:I'm gonn send Kate your way Tasha!

You know what road you'll be on?

Muriel supplied the latest location info, and thanks for sending Kate to me. We'll get her vavooming like nobody's business.

-Tasha

Tailoress

Captain Jamie wrote:
Oh that is just asking for a MASH (the movie) prank!

Captain Jamie

Okay, that's funny in theory...

But it wouldn't be funny in real life.

-Tasha

Tailoress

You know what road you'll be on? Look for the one blocked by the crowd of drooling, ogling males. The fittings will NOT BE DONE in PUBLIC, silly man. Unfortunately, I don't know how to describe the location yet, but hopefully the Merchant handout will tell folks that (look for "Master Kenhelm", I t...

Tailoress

Hi Jon,

I think so... I've never met him myself, but I'm sub-contracting under another sub-contractor technically, and she's in his space, so...

I will pass along the hello.

-Tasha

Tailoress

... I will be doing custom fittings for bust-supportive dresses in the fitted late 14th/early 15thc style at Pennsic, during War Week. You can find me at Master Kenhelm's spot.

In the SCA my name is Marcele, so please feel free to ask for me if you don't recognize me on sight.

-Tasha/Marcele

Tailoress

For that time period I'd just go ahead and make the sleeve in one piece, and if you want it closely fitted to the arm but allow for some elbow bend, it can be done with a one-piece sleeve. I find it easiest to get this sort of tailoring right with draping/fitting on the body, which results in a rath...

Tailoress

I can't really tell what pattern is used in that example you gave, but I'd hazard the guess that the seam runs somewhat down the back of the arm, not directly under the arm (to accomodate the buttons on the forearm a bit), and that means the sleeve cap would not be a mushroom, but rather an S-curve....

Tailoress

Here's my reason to forgo batting: you shouldn't need it if your armour fits well enough. If you're wearing Michelin Tire Man harness, then by all means, pad away! I would also say go with the 100% cotton if you end up trying the batting. If you use some thin stuff like the Heirloom Organic stuff av...

Tailoress

Klaus the Red wrote:You got me. Does this brigandine make my ass look fat?

Not at all, but it does give you a killer wasp waist! Go girl!

Tailoress

Dude. You just said "accessorize". Are you sure you're not a chick with a beard?

-Tasha

Tailoress

Here's the collection of stitches I swear by:

http://heatherrosejones.com/archaeologi ... index.html

It is accompanied by highly useful diagrams. While you're on the site, look at her other stuff. She's building a surviving garments database too.

-Tasha

Tailoress

Brian, have you picked up the first ARS Journal? Doug Strong (Talbot) talks about this very thing in his article "The Glancing Surface and Its Effect on 14thc Armour". There's a photo in there of a Chalcis breastplate in the Met that has fabric remnants and two stop ribs (squiggly ones) placed at th...

Tailoress

Fantastic. That's a useful collection of images. Thank you!

Tailoress

Kallimakh wrote:Do you still have that surcoat for sale as I am interested in it.

I just emailed you. Make sure those dimensions work for you; it's not for a small person, circumference-wise...

-Tasha

Tailoress

Here's an interesting tidbit from Froissart's Chronicles from 1388: "It is an established custom of the Scotch that when they are thus assembled together in arms, the foot soldiers carry horns around their necks as though they were hunters, some great, some small, and of all sorts, so that when they...

Tailoress

Sure, please do post a link elsewhere; and if folks can give me evidence so I know what I actually made, all the better.

-Tasha
PS -- Thanks Rev. George. Good to know I can do "pimptastic".

Tailoress

Years ago I made this surcote for my husband based off of illustrations from an article on Vlad Tepes in one or another military history magazine. It came out pretty well, but I have no idea if it's truly historically-based or not. In any event, it's for sale now. My husband doesn't want it anymore ...

Tailoress

I'm taking due note of the quilting stitch lines in the cote, too. On that note, I think the bottom half is vertically quilted now that I take a look for the billionth time... Meanwhile when I made this for Cet, I horizontally quilted it. Argh. What do you think? Vertical? It's not really clear, bu...

Tailoress

Yeah, I love that helm, Konstantin. If in some alternative universe I ever returned to martial activity, I'd want my kit built to look like that, I think. And I have to wonder if instead of the incline plane (or perhaps in addition to it?) there's some sort of tight-squeeze action that holds it in t...

Tailoress

If anyone's interested, Aaron restarted this thread over at Interpretive Recreation:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=61352

-Tasha

Tailoress

a couple questions about that garment though. was an arm harness worn underneath it as the forearm area seems very tight? and is there any evidence that would suggest a breastplat being worn over one of these garments? It's hard to say for sure, but I agree that the image doesn't really imply a for...

Tailoress

Here's a contemporary painting done in what is now northern Italy at around 1390: [img]http://www.cottesimple.com/misc/1390ish_northItaliandoublet.JPG[/img] It's from the Vienna Tacuinum Sanitatis and I scanned it from The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti . The sleeve style seen on those doublet...

Tailoress

I would love to go, but not at the expense of some other more-armour-loving obsessive's seat.

If I stood the whole time, would I count?

-Tasha

Tailoress

Hi William, You'll get no argument from me actually... I totally understand your thinking on the subject. I have a liking for polite behavior and I guess I'm so used to impolite behavior here that I've begun to let the "less-impolite" go just because I'm glad it's not " really impolite". -Tasha

Tailoress

But even under the assumption that there might be something else that happened on this board in the past I do consider the post deletion in this thread not to be good style. William I deleted my post on this thread because during further reflection I came to understand it didn't really answer Peder...

Tailoress

Finally saw this thread... vary vary nice! Can I offer one comment about the quilting that I think would improve the look even more? (I know you didn't ask for any critiquing, but honestly, this is only constructive.) After you do the concentric rings to accentuate the grande assiette tailoring, why...

Tailoress

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Re: PENNSIC: New source for Clothing

Tell your wives and girlfriends...

Re: QUESTION ON SURCOAT

Eastern European (?) surcote of some kind for sale

Re: Why the SCA.