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(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
    • Festive Attyre: Historical Costuming

      GMA: Fiber Arts Info Dump
      http://szarka.typepad.com/sca/2007/05/fiber_arts_info.html

      MERCHANTS

      FIBER STUFF

      GARDENS

      BEEKEEPING

      GEAR

      RESEARCH RESOURCES

      DANCE & MUSIC

      SCA PLACES

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

 

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