For long and long, the Ancient and Honorable Crown Province of Østgarðr has been known as a hotbed of costuming. With any luck, we’ll be able to get some Ostgardrian costume moguls to contribute articles and photos of their recreative research….
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Discussion
- The East Kingdom embroidery guild is called Athena’s Thimble. It’s not specific to Østgarðr, but a number of Østgarðrians are active members).
Mistress Ilaine de Cameron maintains a Web page for Arachne’s Web, the Renaissance lacemaking group.
Narrow wares: A term encompassing the making of cords, laces, braids, etc. as practiced in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. There’s an email list for practitioners in the East Kingdom; visit the Narrowwork Guild. Mistress Thora Sharptooth (not actually a resident of Østgarðr) maintains a lovely web page on a particular technique called fingerloop braiding.
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Classes
- Several Ostgardrians run more-or-less-regular classes on various aspects of period costuming: Mistress Katherine Gillesfleur, Mistress Elizabeth Talbot, and Lady Jacqueline Loisel. More details here to come…An open letter from Mistress Elizabeth about costuming classes
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Articles
- Gothic Period Jewelry, by Lady Elwisia Mouche de VoujeaucourtWearable Art: Embroidering Accessories, by Mistress Katherine Gillesfleur (if she gives her permission!)Something About 14th – 15th Century Italian Clothing, by Donna Maddalena Salutati (once she gets around to sending it!)
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Costuming Links We Like
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- Some Clothing of the Middle Ages
- A variety of patterns, based, for the most part, on surviving garments
- Footwear of the Middle Ages
- The Ur-Site for shoemaking
- Articles by Cynthia Virtue
- An extensive collection of good articles, particularly on headgear.
- Stefan’s Florilegium
- a vast collection of articles and newsgroup discussions by people in the SCA on every conceivable subject.
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For Beginners
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Headgear
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- Articles by Cynthia Virtue
- An extensive collection of good articles, particularly on headgear.
- Chaperons and How to Make Them
- It’s a hood! And a silly hat!
- Constructing a Truncated Hennin
- Constructing an Italian Ribbon Coif
- Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Women’s Headwear; an Overview of the Literature
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Early Period
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High Middle Ages
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- Costume for a 12th Century Lady
- Practical Worksheet for Tunic Construction
- T-Tunics the Period Way
- Further proof that early period clothing doesn’t have to be ill-fitting or ugly….
- Women’s Clothing in the Thirteenth Century
- Fitting the Grand Aissiette
- If you’ve ever boggled at the sleeve layout in the Charles de Blois Pourpoint….
- Reconstructing Fourteenth Century Braies
- An innovative approach
- A Method for Lining Multiple-Gore Kirtles
- The endlessly creative Edward Newman strikes again….
- The Shoulderless Cotehardie
- The only representation of this style of kirtle is a manuscript illustration of Jezebel being eaten by dogs, but if you’re feeling reckless….
- The Houppelande, 1355 – 1450
- Full-Circle Houppelande
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Renaissance
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- Timothy & Gabrielle’s Second Coronation
- was a 16th-century Spanish extravaganza, with clothing provided by members of The Gilded Pearl, a group of SCA-folk interested in the years 1450-1650. In particular, watch for the names Andrea Caitlin MacIntyre, Jacqueline Helene Loisel, Isabella of York, Suzanne Neuber de Londres, and Gabrielle d’Outre Mer, all of whom live or have lived in Østgarðr.
- Constructing a Late Fifteenth Century Italian Chemise
- Early Italian Renaissance dress Construction
- Scottish Clothing
- The Leine
- Another take on the Irishwoman’s shift
- The Shinrone Gown
- Sixteenth century Irish
- The Moy Bog Dress
- Irish, some time beetween 14th and 17th century
- Elizabethan Corsetry Page
- How to build an Elizabethan wardrobe from the skin out….
- The Poulet Gauche Poster Girl
- Hand Knit Hose
- Sewing Tips and Techniques for 17th Century Costume
- Late 16th and early 17th century Clothing of the Middle and Lower Classes
- an article by Dame Catriona Mairghread nic Dhuibh of Moray