No similarity with Waterloo. Nappy's arty. performed excellently at Waterloo. Blew the heck out of many regiments and battalions in Wellington's army. The main...
Hello! I know I don't post here often; I get intimidated by all the talk of armor and militaria - of which I know very little. :) Though, I have been reading...
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Don't feel bad. I can't sew to save my soul. It is a very dangerous and arduous task for my poor fingers. Thimbles make it worse. I tried embroidery,...
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I'm still learning here so please don't kill me... Yet. So the Kontuz ( how do you pronounce that) is the basic coat. What are the differnces between that and...
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(contoosh) I think that would be a phonetic spelling. A zupan (Jewpen) is an under coat like a modern vest. It has a fuller skirt than a Kontush and is not as...
Kelly Are you on the east coast and do you plan to attend the School of the musketeer at mareetta mansion in Maryland in March if so I have been asked to give...
I'm in Mesa Arizona (phoenix). I have been to Ricks site and seen the basic pattrens. It (in the late hours) seemed hard to follow. As in to many choices....
Is the short sleeved coat that I have seen drawings of a short sleeved kontush with a zupan underneath? I have also seen pictures of a kontush with split sides...
The 'short sleeved' coat is a delia, which preceeded the kontuz in the same function, so is perfect for early 17th C. THe sleeve may be actually short, or a...
the short sleeved garmet is for all intents and porposews a Kontuz but I belive it goes by a different name and an yes underneath would be a zupan as you go...
except in modern film the short sleeved garmet seems to be one used by the pesentry (which means it cant be a Kontuz) but this is one I need to do more...
Rick I don't mean to contradict you but specially since we havent seen the pictures hes talking about hes refering to the garmets that look like they are...
I'm basically intersted in the short sleeve cause it gets hot in arizona. Also I've got some fighting tourney's coming up and I think a short sleeved kontush...
remember when choosing fabricks that Kontuz are solids zupans can be patterned but usually the pattern is the same color as the base delia are also solids...
We are working on more stuff in support of the 'main' patterns. Now that we actually have finished examples of most of the patterns, we will add that as well....
Thanks for the heads up on that one. Whats up with the photo on the group file titled I make this look good? For my fighting garb I was going to use plain...
One short-sleeve delia picture (late 1600s) I was thinking of is on the far right: http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/images/PolishCos.jpg I don't know what sort...
Dave: Where is the photo refered to? If you are looking for something to wear under armor, a padded linen zupan would be correct and (as linen) fairly cool....
Dave I had that made before I was any wear near compleating my reaserch sufice it to say it is much closer to a Muscovite garmet and thats waht I say is that I...