French Pouch - 1340.
Details: Brown kirtle, trailing on ground, wrist-length sleeves; blue cotte, short sleeves, skirt pulled up and tucked at waist; hair up, possibly in coils over ears
That is one of the more famous mid-14thc French alms purses "out there". You can see more about it in Michael Camille's _The Medieval Art of Love_ (which is easy to get and cheap) and also in Schuette and Christensen's _Pictorial History of Embroidery_ which is not so easy to get and is expensive to say the least... It can be ILLed though.
Will your wife be at Pennsic? I'm teaching a slide-assisted lecture about these types of purses there. Lots more where this came from, if interested.
Tasha McG wrote:That is one of the more famous mid-14thc French alms purses "out there". You can see more about it in Michael Camille's _The Medieval Art of Love_ (which is easy to get and cheap) and also in Schuette and Christensen's _Pictorial History of Embroidery_ which is not so easy to get and is expensive to say the least... It can be ILLed though.
Will your wife be at Pennsic? I'm teaching a slide-assisted lecture about these types of purses there. Lots more where this came from, if interested.
-Tasha
Sadly we will not make it this year, and she would be interesed I am sure. Is it embroidery? Any idea about the composition? More pics
She sent me this link from work and said post it to AA and get all the information you can, I love it. And her wish is a command as far as I am concerned.
morristh wrote:Is it embroidery? Any idea about the composition? More pics
Yah, it's embroidery (figures in split stitch, background is couched gold). Tasha's website used to have more pictures but there are other aumônières online:
but there are other aumônières online:
