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From an idea I got from Gerhard von Liebow- I am looking for documentation of Early 15th century embroidered hosen.
pictures, descriptions, anecdotes.. anything. I know, as he has also said, documenation may be slim for these.

Thanks!
MJ

Tres Riche Hours Duc de Berri
The servers in the feast scenes all have embroidered hosen.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... anvier.jpg

Embroider or it has bezants or both.

James B. wrote:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... anvier.jpg

Embroider or it has bezants or both.

Wow that's a beautiful image. Thank you for posting.

I want all those in a giant, full-color book. Recs?

I have found the large hardcover version in used bookstores on several occassions. I would look for it in the Art/History sections.

I have a book with the images I got at a used book shop; it is orange in hardback with a hard slip cover. I am not sure of the name off the top of my head. I find the blown up images on Wikipedia are more useful for details

I have always seen reenactors wearing the bollock dagger upright between the pouch straps. However, in this painting I don't know why I never noticed the ballock daggers pointing down like penises and the pouches looking like scrotums. Was this common or is the artist making a statement of these fellows manhood? It certainly makes the shape of both the dagger and the pouch much more blatant.

I think it's a cigar.

Oh, my. I've probably looked at this image hundreds of times, and never noticed that.

Now, I'll never NOT notice that.

I think they have it passing through one of the pouch loops which is why it hangs that way; I noticed it ages ago, there are a few images here and there with the dagger worn sideways instead of up and down.

Chris Gilman wrote:I have always seen reenactors wearing the bollock dagger upright between the pouch straps. However, in this painting I don't know why I never noticed the ballock daggers pointing down like penises and the pouches looking like scrotums. Was this common or is the artist making a statement of these fellows manhood? It certainly makes the shape of both the dagger and the pouch much more blatant.

I dunno what the reason is but I now have a need for a bollock dagger to go with my pouch. Can't exactly go walking around and claim 'shrinkage' on your weapon haft now can we?

Sean

To the original question: the image of Chaucer's Squire from the Ellesmere edition jumps to my mind. It is also in the right timeframe. Here is but one of the pages that show it: http://www.virtue.to/articles/bells.html