From my reading, it seems that woven belts, in period, may have outnumbered leather ones. Alcyoneus __________________________________________________ Do You...
If this link has been posted before, my apologies. This is part of the search resource on the Bibliotheque Nationale. Anyway, here are four beautiful...
There's one for all of us, I think. The project that you want to make, that you know you could make and it would be within your budget and your skills. The...
Hi all, Interestingly enough this discussion came up just after I had been to Artesia,the local Little India,to buy clothes and whatever else was a good...
Red cabbage--great indicator, not-so-great dyestuff. iirc, it turns cloth to a sort of purply lint color, like the white underwear you didn't sort out from the...
Hello - 1. I am attempting to add lacing strips to some doublets and slops, mainly commercially made. 2. Due to lack of time, and consistency with the existing...
So after making lots of red cabbage juice for a classroom science lab this morning, and given the onion skin dyeing thread... I have to ask... Red cabbage ---...
I have uploaded a picture of the wagon we are making so far. It is the wagon folder. It uses dowels and glue for the construction. The seats that are going in...
I have no doubt there have been tons of posts on this, but I can't seem to -find- them. My boyfriend and I are working with making our garb as authentic as ...
The only critter I ever had problems with with entering uninvited was a four year old child who untied, one by one, the ties of the overlap door on our wedge...
So when did uniforms begin? I find it hard to believe that it was a post period concept. In the confusion of battle, with hundreds if not thousands to a side,...
Hey there folks, I've noticed that where I am (and this may just be a regional thing, but whatever) that most of the fencers I see tend to gravitate towards...
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Just back from Pennsic, and trying to catch up on previous posts, I was pretty interested in the discussions of camp bedding that people use. For one thing, I...
Greetings Good Gentles, I have recently acquired a new pattern, but I'm hesitant to use it without first hearing some opinions any of you or your contacts may...
Old Fart Index ... I had this half-baked idea at the beginning of the war and I let it ferment. I now believe it is fully baked and ready for public ...
How wonderful.... Despina de la likes that this is out there Here is another very cool link. Samia Excepted from background page: The books affected to offer...
Greetings to the list! I have been a lurker for quite some time, I don't think it's been said enough that all of you guys are so great, knowledgeable, and ...
If you do Elizabethan, you've seen these coifs, either laying flat and rectangular, or made up and sitting on a stand. I have many, many examples of extant...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4173838.stm evidence of the start of shoe wearing. Bogdan ... Jeffrey S. Heilveil, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow ...
I've been needing to make an apron to complete my 'well dress'd peasant' ensemble and have, in the usual course of things, been looking at beaucoup paintings....
And no, right off the bat, sorry, but I'm not sending none of it to none of youz guys! But with that out of the way....<weg> I scored almost 12 yards of an...
Hello all, Have any of you made the higher version of pattens,ie not the flat-ish hinged ones,and if so is there another strap other than the on over the ball...
I'm aware of the "how to define linen" argument, and I prefer to stay out of it! :) I think we do know from extant furnishings and written records that hemp...
From the BBC: For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. What lessons for modern living did they...
m'Lords and Ladies, Does anybody here have references for 16th century braziers? I'm hoping to find something that will be accurate for Italy, France or...
I won't describe my actual bedding because well, I'm still using a nylon tent (I am hesitant to try to fit a pavillion in my vehicle, even if I could afford...
