Useful Links Elsewhere - Greet's Middle Ages

(under construction, I’ve got a LONG WAY to go, cleaning out my del.icio.us files)

GARB RESEARCH

Google Directory of medieval clothing sites
Marc Carlson’s collection of extant garments, see the page on sewing techniques
Kass McGann’s Reconstructing History patterns
- The Highlander’s Saffron Shirt
- Getting yellow without saffron
- Red & green stitching on yellow shirt
  - Marie Cadeaux – Gallery of costumes
  - Silver Desert: multiple timeperiods and places
  - Dress patterns from Smoke and Fire
  - Mesterinde Karen Larsdatter
  - Lots of links here
  - And here: Medieval Frocks
  - Pre1000
    - Midgard Basic Clothing Standards
    - Viking Apron Dress, by Marie Cadeaux
    1000-1200
    - Regia Anglorum – Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Viking, British UK re-enactors
    - 10thc woven wire arm ring, PDF paper
    - Time Tarts – British recreation company for television
  - 1200
    - 12th and 13th century
    - Atlantian A&S 12th c
    - Storm Tidings, 11th & 12thc Garb (tubes to lengthen plaits)
    - belt
    - Racaire’s Embroidery and Needlework
  - Coptic
    - Tissus d’Egypte
    - V&A Coptic reading list
    - Bedouin Woman’s Garment, 1450
    - Ioanna filia Iacobi, mostly Roman, but others too
  - Persian
    - Roxane Farabi
    - Rashid’s Patterns
    - Overview of Ottoman Clothing in SCA (Ottoman is not Persian, per se, but next door)
  - 15thc
    - http://www.ryla.net/blue01.php
    - Saint Mary Magdalene, shown with gathered skirt to bodice
    - Front-laced kirtles from Marie Cadeaux
    - Pictures of Our Family as Landsknechts
    - German 101 Class
    - Gunter and Julianna’s Landsknecht Site
    - Schilling – women’s underwear!
    - Nuremberg gown
    - Index of Albrecht Durer’s work, WGA
    - The Frazzled Frau
    - The Curious Frau
    - Myra’s Rustred Kirtle, 1470-1490
  - 16th c
    - The Tudor Costume Page
      http://freespace.virgin.net/f.lea/index.htm
      Working class costumer’s page; authored by Kentwell (Tudor) participant
    - Elizabethan Costuming Page
      http://www.elizabethancostume.net/
      Flemish Working Dress, smock generator
    - Sempstress.org
    - Making A Gored Kirtle Pattern
    - Custom Corset Pattern Generator
    - Eleanor of Toledo (Italian) knitted stocking pattern (extant shown in Rutt)
    - Maltese Ghonella
    - Elizabethan Coif
    - Coifs from Atlantian A&S
  - Flemish Working Class
    - http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/15th/
      Hope Greenberg: 15th cent. Dresses: A portfolio of Images
    - Uptown Girls
    - Flemish Dress Diary by Eva
    - Flemish Dress log by Lorenzo
    - Flemish Kerchief tying
    - Pieter Aertsen, Market Woman with Vegetable Stall, WGA
    - Pieter Aertsen, Market Scene, WGA
    - Pieter Aertsen, Cook in Front of the Stove, WGA
    - Festive Attyre’s Flemish working class
    - Wearable Wooden shoes, $25
    - Diu Minnezit – 1250
  - 14th Century
    - Men’s and Women’s Work Clothing: A Portfolio of Images
      http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/work/index.html
    - The Costumer’s Manifesto:Medieval European Links Page
      http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/medievalinks.htm
      Zillions of sources, lots of SCA participation
    - La Cotte Simple, Gothic Fitted Dress and Grande Assiette sleeve type
    - Herjolfnaes 39: Side-laced kirtle
    - Moy Gown: Grande Assiette sleeve
    - Effigy and illustration collection: slit surcote
    - From the Skin Out – Good beginning point, but some of the things he ‘can’t find’ are out there.
    - Shoulderless cotehardie, but in German
    - Extant sleeveless shift, with pattern
    - La Belle Compagnie, reading list
    - 1381, The Peel Affinity
    - Sideless surcote class, advocates straight cut of armhole
    - Chausses and Braies
    - Cotehardies from Greenland Gowns, drafting sleeves
    - Button construction
    - Button photo with facing
    - Elbow hinge of Charles de Blois
    - 14thc Women’s Clothing around Europe, per Briaca’s Demesne
    - The 14thc, some costumes and their construction
  - Russian:
    - Sofya la Rus’ website has a nice basic pattern at
      http://www.strangelove.net/~kieser/Russia/rubakha.html
      and her main page has a TON of info on persona, garb,
      food, accessories, etc etc etc….
      http://www.strangelove.net/~kieser/Russia/
      Also there’s the Slavic Interest Group at Yahoogroups.
    - Last fall was the first Slavic University event, held
      in the Midrealm. all the class notes are here at
      http://www.plcommonwealth.org/slavunotes.htm and
      there’s a ton of pictures of people in slavic garb.
    - Rus Kaftan, showing wire weaving
    - Russian temple rings (women’s jewelry)
  - Indian:
    - Basic India Clothing Glossary
    - India Fashion Glossary
    - Sari draping guide: book to buy, $30
    - Tassels for Rajput
    - Ankle bells for Rajput
    - Shiva, the Sensuous Yogi, for yoga
    - Kama Sutra woodcarving, for coolness
    - Utsav – sari and jewelry shopping
    - Sri Ganesha Temple – in Nashville
    - 108 Karanas – dance moves
    - Oppi Untracht book: “Traditional Jewelry of India”.
    - book: “Dance of the Peacock” by Usha R Bala Krishnan
  - Historic Enterprises
  - Spanish Peacock
  - Bosworth Spindles
  - Fabrics-store.com – Good prices on linen – under $7/yard for handkerchief-weight.
    Little Barn – Fiber import place in North Alabama; I get flax from them. They also apparently know something about antique spinning wheels, as they have them for sale, all fixed up.
    Gipsy Peddler SCA Rapier Armor – Trigger fabric clothing and gloves; knowledge of SCA rapier rules.
  - Class Act Fabrics – Great re-enactor context on what fabrics are called as well as good prices on linen, silk, wool.
  - Wool Remnants
  - Oxbow Books (via David Brown Book Company, in US)
  - The Lacemaker
  - History of Ironing
  - Knit Stockings on Stefan’s Florilegium
  - Finger-crocheted cord (similar to luceted cord)
  - Giraude’s Netting Page
  - Cauls, Hairnets, and Snoods
  - DEFUNCT – Villa de Bello Marisco – used to be pleatwork
  - Hand hemstitching
  - All About Woad
  - Image of woman supervising fiber arts
  - History of Silk Road
  - Dyeing with Safflower (hot pink!)
  - Spinning story: The Twin Daughters
  - Luttrell Psalter smocked apron and truncheon distaff
  - Soper Lane: 15th c silkwomen in London; books available, lovely photos
  - Tak v Bowe: 15thc manual of narrowwares
  - The Alhambra
  - The Priory of Orsan
  - Queen Eleanor’s Garden (and other castley places in Hampshire)
  - Bayleaf Farmstead
  - SCA class notes on “Medieval Gardens” – author doesn’t seem to know that Persian gardens predate the Greek by quite some time, and originate the walled quadripartite form.
  - Muslim contribution to Agriculture
  - Show 1 , Show 2, Show 3, Show 4, Show 5, Show 6, Show 7, Show 8
  - Chairs
  - Tents
  - Uncial Counted CrossStitch (not very period, but neat)
  - Collapsible Bucket (coat interior with paint?)
  - Past Times (House Barra)
  - Medieval Archeology online
  - Medieval Woodcut Collection
  - Maps, Etc Historic maps
  - Index of Early Medieval Maps
  - Europeana.eu
  - Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
  - United Nations’ World Digital Library http://www.wdl.org/en/
    has gone online with an initial offering of 1,200 ancient manuscripts, parchments and
    documents http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8009974.stm.
  - Dance Database
  - Reconstructions for Idhafn dancers Recc’d by Lord Eoin
  - Spinning Wheels, etc
  - I Have a Song to Sing-O
  - A Collection of Ballads
  - Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
    http://www.sca.org/
  - Kingdom of Meridies
    http://www.meridies.org/
  - my local Shire of Phoenix Glade
    http://www.phoenixglade.org/
  - Phoenix Glade Forum
    http://phoenixglade.org/forums/phpbb2/
  - Gulf Wars
  - Ten Simple Things You Can Do To Impress The Judges
  - Abbotsford Group
  - Terrific hall decorating

The following list WAS my library, but the list is out of date as of June 1, 2011.

(NB: Many of these I own, others I have ILLed and merely wish to own. These are the ones I’ve found mindchanging and truly educational.)

COPTIC

Clothing Culture, Frances Pritchard

HUNGARIAN

The Realm of St. Stephen, Pal Engel

TEXTILES, GENERAL

Linen: Handspinning and Weaving, Patricia Baines
Flax and Linen, Patricia Baines
Four-Harness Weaving
Warping ???
Learn to Weave, Deborah
Spin Span Spun, Bette Hochburg
A Dyer’s Garden, Rita Buchanan
A Weaver’s Garden, Rita Buchanan
Natural Dyeing, Rita Adrosko

14th CENTURY

A Distant Mirror, Buchman
Woven Into The Earth, Else Ostergard

12th CENTURY

Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, Amy Kelly

GARDENS

Gardens of Persia, Penelope Hobhouse

GENERAL HISTORY

Leben im Mittelalter, 1000-1500, David Nicolle
Atlas of Medieval Man
Castle, David Maculay
Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting, Nigel Morgan
Italian Paintings of the Uffizi, Alessandro Cecchi
Women’s Work, Elizabeth Wayland Barber

GENERAL COSTUME

From the Neck Up, Denise Dreher