... garments. ... least 1600, ... as a ... the ... Could it be this one: http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/stitches.htm ? Cheers, Cornelia...
Most of them were from orchil, a lichen-based dye that is not very lightfast. Yes, it will look pretty for a little while, but it fades pretty quickly....
Regarding the Whitney quotation, the emblem book was published in the 1580s, if memory serves. As for bright orange on wool..sorry, but the answer to that is a...
... Wow, that you so much for forwarding that email here. The last image in particular makes me very happy. All those purples shading from near electric violet...
... From: Kareina Talvi Tytär To: Authentic_SCA@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Authentic_SCA] name help Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:07:29 -0800 ... I would suggest...
If you go to her main pages, one on Viking info and one on textiles I think, you will find all kinds of juicy stuff. Thora's pages are a treasure! --Saerlaith ...
Bright orange - I meant the color of the fruit. If you've gotten it with madder, please e-mail me the recipe, because the best I've gotten is a rusty medium...
Thora has gotten some remarkably good colors, including some very nice purples...but again, I'd be careful of using orchil on something that was going to be in...
http://www.luminarium.org/ Has lots of essays on medieval and renaissance stuff, some images. Recommended by Choice, a primary review periodical for libraries,...
Am I mis-remembering the images, or is this drawing http://www.designsofthepast.com/loosegown.html one of Kass's from her pattern line? Please forgive me if...
... I can't get to the page to compare, but it wouldn't surprise me at all; Designs of the Past has been using some very, ah, interesting interpretations of...
... Ah! Thank you! I was under a misapprehension that a folio was roughly correspondent to a signature in a modern book. This is much clearer. Marg....
Just wondering how good mirrors were in period, early period specifically. I know people were buried with tweezers and ear spoons, and ocassionally bronze...
<snip> ... <snip> Nope I'm pretty sure this one is taken directly from Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion (which Kass has based her pattern on), the pose is...
Well, they haven't been shut down yet. I'm sure it's just a matter of time though. Gwenhyfar ... From: cschutrick To: Authentic_SCA@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Dear all, can anyone point me to a good scholarly source (or few) describing pastimes of of the nobility in Tudor & Elizabethan England? Specifically ones that...
The orange I've gotten with madder happened with a batch where I didn't pour off the results of the initial cold soak but used it in the dyebath, and also (as...
I have Daily Life in Elizabethan England by Jeffrey L. Signman checked out from the library right now. It has a section on entertainment that includes...
There's a wonderful little book that sorted out most of the things I didn't know about medeival manuscripts, and a few things I never knew I wanted to know....
At 2:26 PM +0000 11/3/04, Jen Kennedy (SCA: Ld. Eoin an Eich Ghil mac ... There's: Reeves, Compton. 1998. Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England. Oxford...
This does require a little downloading (Hebrew characters plus the viewer), but it looks like they're going to have some really interesting things online......
I got some swatches from Denver Fabrics, and I'm wondering if they would be appropriate for a 10th C. Irish/Viking persona. They aren't the cheapest, but I...
Hi, Does anyone know the sleeve shape for Henry II's famous 11th century coat? I don't remember if the pattern pieces are shown in Kohler, but it's at work so...
... If my recollection is correct, the base garment here is a later reconstruction -- only the embroidered bands survive from the original garment. So...
Weaving Humorous Words for the Web-Weary - Peter Collingwood [My spoof is a reaction to the very basic weavers I noticed when I was starting, over 30 years...
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