The Armour Archive

Tailoress

Actually, Matt, that's a very good idea. I did that last year finally just for going to the public showers at Gulf Wars and it was the best addition to my wardrobe for values of "useful".

Tailoress

I find having a chemise for every day I'm there is super-convenient. No laundry needs to be done that way (and if I'm doing laundry on my vacation, something is very, very wrong). Whatever is worn over the chemise can be worn again, provided it is hung up and airs out, etc. For men, the equivalent w...

Tailoress

I've been in many courts when the Chivalry are called in and someone is sent on vigil but never have I heard such an explosive, LOUD outpouring of approval when the Order was called in for D. It was raucous and overwhelming. D, we expect you to keep in good shape while overseas and come back to the ...

Tailoress

D. Sebastian wrote:Birka!

I'm planning to fight in my 50% complete 14th Cent kit.
Maybe not - we'll see.

Oh, do please. This would be something to see. As I recall, you were on fire last year!

Tailoress

I'll be there, fighting instead of marshaling for the first time in years. My goal is to have fun. I've always hated the Birka tournament... so I decided I'd do it and make it fun. Seeya there dude. Hopefully we get to cross sticks. I'm very glad to hear this! Birka needs more guys in good kits. It...

Tailoress

The under-thing could be a depiction of a cloth coif or armour hat of some kind, too.

Tailoress

Want.

*wimper*

Can't go; I already have two other European trips slated this year, and at least one next year, so I can't justify it within my tiny budget. But thank you for the heads-up. Maybe they'll publish the proceedings...? One can hope.

Tailoress

Fearghus, For an early 14thc kit, you're on the right track. Hosen were much looser in the early decades of the 14thc than they become as the century progresses. You will find more imagery showing garters under both knees in early 14thc figural art, than you will in later 14thc figural art (in gener...

Tailoress

Do they have attachment points of any kind? Like holes or little spikes on the backside?

Tailoress

It was the Elizabeth Woodville outfit, though I wasn't trying to match her necklaces -- both of which were too complicated for me to even begin to attempt imitating in the time I had allotted myself. I was simply going for the choker-with-pendant look seen in so many of the English brasses of the sa...

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I LOVE them.

I wish more SCA jewelry merchants would offer pendant chokers like the one you made there. They're highly visible in the late 15thc art, but hard to find out there in shopping-land. I resorted to making a rather lame-o one for myself when I created my 1480s outfit.

Tailoress

I only seem to make it into sig lines when the topic is sex or violence!

Tailoress

You're very welcome, Gaston! And do also take a look at the King Wenceslas Bible. Bazooms of great glory there, too.

Tailoress

The English memorial brasses of the 1480s show indecent amounts of cleavage too, btw. At least, the styles depicting the cylinder hennin and the shallow-U collar. Another common style from that time shows ladies facing straight on, wearing a much looser gown with a V-neck, and the hennin is possibly...

Tailoress

For an impressive array of cleavage, please consider various illuminations from the Tacuimum Sanitatus (1390s, in what is now Northern Italy). Also, various Bohemian representations from the 1380s spring to mind, particularly from the Bible of King Wenceslas IV (not just the obvious bathhouse ladies...

Tailoress

Very nice modern use of a coif.

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Charlotte J wrote:LIKE!

Yooooo BETCHA, you like it!

Tailoress

I don't dare open the link from work, but I can't wait to look at home! That sounds right up my alley.

Tailoress

I have always seen it called a 'bycocket'. A number of medieval hatters use the same term for that style. Wikipedia uses the term 'bycoket' (missing the second 'c') as a name for both an ancient cap in England and the peak fronted hat of later centuries. That's certainly the English term for it. Ch...

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Charlotte J wrote:sleeves can trip up even experienced sewers.

Frackin' QFT.

I've finally come up against my Waterloo. I may chat with you offline for some ideas on fixing the problem...

Back to the regularly scheduled thread.

-Tasha

Tailoress

Oh, that is just so cool. And not just because men are bashing each other over their heads with sticks.

-Tasha

Tailoress

When I get home I'll take a refresher look at that thesis I love to reference for discussions like this and let you know what the author thinks. She compared multiple literary sources for terms such as "kirtle", "cote", and "gown". But judging by the Ellesmere illuminat...

Tailoress

It is the third layer of clothing, which was de rigure for males to wear. Coathardies and doublets are the foundation for the third, outer layer. A cotehardie would be the outer layer; in most cases the third layer. Typically a doublet (as you mention) or a kirtle or plain cotte would be the second...

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The female guide is in the works, but still not officially begun. No telling at this time when it will be made available. But if enough people submit a comment on the site requesting one, perhaps the company members will consider it a higher priority.

Tailoress

Nice work, Daniel! Thanks for the plug. Did you see my latest article about the CdB pourpoint?

Cut to Pieces by a Determined Tailor

That one has more pattern-specific detail in it than the grandes assiettes article.

-Tasha

Tailoress

I spent years in modern trousers, combat boots, and crappy piratish T-tunics made out of old bed sheets. At my second Pennsic (pennsic 25!), on the day that I spent the last of my money, my only crappy bedsheet tunic literally rotted off my body. sadly, I think it was a pretty average look at the t...

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A knight isn't much different. A knight has a bag full of peoples' ideals about chivalry and virtue. Every time a knight does something lame, they spend their own coin AND that of their brothers'. It's not something easy earned back. This is just as true for the other peerages too. Here in the East...

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Excellent, David. Thank you!

Tailoress

I can say that participating with CoSG 3 years ago, killed any desire I ever had for doing medieval re-enactment in the US. Do you mean that your experience was so positive that anything in the US paled in comparison, or do you mean that your experience was so negative that it turned you off to fur...

Tailoress

If you sell the arming cotte, I will cry.

Tailoress

You will not believe what this is going to do to their abilities- expect miraculous improvement. Yes. Because the average SCA fighter practice consists of 6-10 people standing around and talking in armour with an occasional bear-pit springing up and happening in a haphazard fashion. Actual organize...

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Dragon_Argent, that's a useful bit of information. Thank you.

Tailoress

Very cool. My son would love this. He's 6 and has become a full-blown LEGO-maniac. Soo.... if anyone wants their old LEGOs to go to a good home, let me know! This boy child will make serious use of them.

-Tasha

Tailoress

There appears to have been an expection that armour was worn over an arming doublet of some sort in at least the 1580's. Sir John Smythe wrote a piece after the mass major muster at Tilbury and bitterly complained that too many men were wearing armour badly and loose over their clothing with no pro...

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I know very little about the later 15thc's clothing history, so my effort extended only to checking the English translation... but I know they're accepting commentary through a web form on the download page, so you could put in a word, Gwen, if you have a good argument for changing their minds on so...

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