The Armour Archive

Tailoress

I don't know about ironing as a substitution of sewn hemming, but I do occasionally leave well-fulled wool hems unfinished, because their rate of fraying is so slow and negligible that there's not a lot of return on finishing the hem with stitches. Also, for well-fulled wool, if you ever do decide t...

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What this thread is telling me, though, is that many of the SCA chiv (there's a LOT) who post, read/lurk here either consider themselves blameless, or are else too wimpy to fess up to their more asinine moments. Good thing you're not asking them to 'fess up to their social/romantic sins, just their...

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Charlotte J wrote:Looks great. I like the layout. Well done!

Thanks, but I didn't have anything to do with the layout, myself. I just combed over the text to confirm smooth translation into English. I am impressed with the layout too, though.

-Tasha

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I seem to recall the curator of the musuem holding said garment having serious doubts over this piece, mostly due to the mish mash of sewing styles, threads and material from 16th through to 18th century. This piece is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as part of the Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kien...

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Some time ago I was asked to help edit the English-language version of the Company of Saynt George's men's clothing guide. It was my pleasure to give input, and it is now my pleasure to share its recent release here: http://www.companie-of-st-george.ch/cms/?q=en/new-male-costume-guide-released Enjoy...

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This is great stuff. Thank you everyone!

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Aside from the two kind commenters on this thread who've given me some help, can anyone recommend specific books, articles, or websites?

Sources on non-martial 16thc clothing would be welcome too.

**edited to remove inadvertent whineyness factor**

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Leo, I would tell the people in your house that you plan to champion the truth and that it may hurt them. Offer those that want a chance to get a new knight or distance from you. I think that you will find that they will probably not care about their SCA "career" as much as they care abou...

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Here's a few images I'm using for my attempt. I'm shooting for 1565-1585 for mine as an fyi. Everything to me looks like a standard doublet shape with some possible reinforcing around the shoulders. <snip> Very interesting. Those redrawings of Spanish 16thc arming garments -- know anything about th...

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Thank you so far... Dragon_Argent, I really did mean the entirety of the 16th -- the whole 100 years. I'm interested in all resources that would cover the entire century for Western Europe. If I had to get geographically specific, I suppose I'd go for German, but I don't want that to rule anything o...

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If I needed information on the appropriate garments (and their cut and construction) for wearing under 16thc Western European plate armour, what books, articles, sites, etc. would you recommend to me?

Regards and thank you in advance,
-Tasha

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(I'm still waiting for someone to guess what I meant by the Pooblefranian dillyfronks. I'm going to guess that Pooblefranians are nobles (or the pious in general?) and dillyfronks are paternosters.... I was going with knights and dogs until you talked about "wearing" the dillyfronks. If y...

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Galfrid atte grene wrote:...is interesting to note that specifically the Black Prince's effigy has a differently proportioned jupon than just about any other effigy - exactly what you noticed - a longer lower part in proportion to the top.

Dang. You beat me to it.

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Too often this hobby becomes about the acquisition and display of stuff . It's going to sound really bizarre coming from that chick who does larsdatter.com (That Website With All That Stuff) but there's got to be something more to this hobby than a super-materialistic semi-anachronistic cargo cult....

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bigfredb, I've done just that a few times recently and so far, those experiences have been among the most rewarding of my entire SCA experience. I have some relatively new, extremely close, mega-awesome friends from it. My life in the last year has been much richer for my efforts to help a few other...

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throwing-a-lot-of-money-at-vendors-because-they- said -it-was-historically-accurate-and-I-wanted-to-look-like-I-gave-a-damn-about-Authenticity, That would be me. I fully admit that. ... and there's nothing wrong with it. Putting money toward appearance is a legitimate method for getting the appeara...

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I'd say Eberhard is very close to our old buddy Walter Von Hohenklingen; more so than the St. George statue, which has distinctively different sleeve tailoring AND he is wearing his jupon fully on the outside, no breastplate over top, like Walter and Eberhard. Hot-diggity, this is cool to see. Thank...

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It was probably the dominant style among the elite, who could afford full plate arm harness. Very few SCA people do it well. Galfrid does it very, very well. I think aside from his smarts and focus on this stuff, it also helps that he has the body type for it. Galfrid, would you post a picture of y...

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I'm up to something, but I'll leave it at that.

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Good gracious, Adric, my mind's eye burns!

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...Urk. I'm fried from a long (good) weekend, but I'll try. In your opinion , what is the most common type of stitching technique for sewing average medium weight wool gowns/houpplandes ? Aside from an extremely limited selection of extant garments/stitched fragments from the 14thc to base such an a...

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An extremely useful guide to stitches found in extant pieces, broken out by fiber type (wool, linen, silk, etc.):

Heather Rose Jone's Archaeological Sewing

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Vitus does things like this. I wanted one little heater shield painted with my arms and he sent me that plus a targe painted with my arms. And he wanted next to nothing in payment for it.

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I would strike up a conversation and in the course of it, ask them what persona they're considering adopting. If they have no clue what you mean, explain the concept and give examples (14thc French or 8thc Viking, etc.). Then, if they're showing even a shred of interest in what you're saying, offer ...

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We're talkin' gold lamÃ©, people. Stapling the hemline. Making your sleeves so that they would fit an ape, not a human. That kind of thing. In that case, what you want to know about is our SHOES in those early days. Our footwear was so bad, I still can't talk about it after all these years. And her...

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I believe that the top-level honest fighters need to start confronting the perennial shruggers right there, in the lists, when it happens. The perennial shruggers have zero problem confronting the honest ones, as soon as they think a shot landed squarely and wasn't acknowledged. They know that hones...

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Aaryq wrote:My First T Tunic was some kind of...I don't know almost...like mummy wrappings but wide like normal fabric.

I LOL'd at this.

It was probably cotton muslin of some kind.

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I didn't win because I shrugged off blows that weren't good enough. I won because I didn't let them touch me and as they failed to best me I was blowing their doors off with well placed high powered blows that left them no question about the quality of opponent they were facing. I added italics bec...

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Muslin gets surprisingly sticky when wet. Indeed. My first chemises were all made of cotton muslin. I was never so sweaty and uncomfortable in my life as I was during that first Pennsic in 1998. Cotton sucks in the heat compared to linen and even wool. I tend to put fabrics in this order when it co...

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and I was working with Tasha on a hood. I'm glad I never took any money for that hood, because I ended up cancelling with you. I regret having strung that out for so long, John. I'm just not very good at reliably cranking out custom clothing for people. I no longer make any promises to anyone and o...

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Can I ask someone to please explain to me how a square knot and a slip knot are the same... or different? I'm terribly confused.

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I'm sure that's true for quite a few but I've also spent hours making designs for people over several weeks then once we settle on something and it's time for money to change hands I never hear from them again. I have probably as many folders full of designs I did for people that never got used as ...

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Vitus, you know I'm one of your tribe. I'm a little embarassed to admit this, but what the heck (the truth sets you free), I spent six months in counseling this year over this very problem. I finally realized that my counselor was a very nice man, but he had no idea how to help me help myself. Try ...

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You know, people will probably pay a lot more for your banners. Some might, but as it is when I tell people the price I often never hear from them again. We have a winner!! Anybody with half a brain knows your prices are more than reasonable, Isabella. And for that matter, Vitus's too. If they don'...

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On E&B it was dated to 1350, along with the other two. Obviously, the exact dates on all these effigies can not be known for sure. And effigies aside, people probably didn't trash their clothes as soon as they were out-of-style. Sorry if this sounds harsh Jo-Jo, but you are wholly wrong. The no...

Company of Saynt George Male Clothing Guide available

Resources for 16thc martial soft kit tailoring?