(Geez – half this blog is about garb. I keep telling people that once I get a weeks-worth of clothing pulled together I’m going to focus on other things, but experienced SCAdians just laugh…)
Here’s some sites that may be useful.
FABRIC
Linen – http://fabrics-store.com/
http://denverfabrics.com/
http://www.bblackandsons.com/
NOTIONS
Brass lacing rings – http://www.celticsun.biz/
RESEARCH
http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=10
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/arnora/costumehdbk.htm
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM
http://www.revivalclothing.com/
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME1_INDEX.HTML
http://www.netherton.net/robin/
http://www.sewingcentral.com/cgi-bin/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=index.html&cart_id=8867465_32158
http://www.florilegium.org/
Web Gallery of Art
ABC Gallery
BOOKS
A History of Costume by Carl Kohler
Medieval Tailors Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500 Sarah Thursfield
The Book of Costume Millia Davenport
Survey of Historic Costume Phyllis Tortora and Keith Eubank
The History of Costume: from Ancient Mesopotamia through the Twentieth Century Blanche Payne et al
ACCESSORIES
http://talbotsfineaccessories.com/
http://fetteredcockpewters.com
http://www.billyandcharlie.com
http://www.fabric.com doesn’t have as big a selection for those of us in the SCA as fabric-store.com. However, they do have warehouse sales twice a year in Atlanta. You can find wool, silk, brocade, and linen, as well as lots of other non-period fabrics, at a DEEP discount. If you can make it up this way for the next one, I’m sure that we can arrange crash space. We usually go as a large group and make a day of it.
Ok, well, Kohler isn’t the first thing I would recommend as far as costuming resources. Most of Kohler is line drawings from other sources and I’m not quite sure that they are as accurate as they could be. The written information isn’t half bad. I much prefer Milia Davenport’s The Book of Costume, Tortora’s Survey of Historical Costume, and Payne’s The History of Costume. Much more artwork and less line drawings. The text is well worth reading as well. (Although I do happen to own a copy of Kohler.) I think that Kohler and Arnold are better choices for the experienced costumer as they can better determine what is and isn’t so based on seeing many pieces of artwork.