Useful Links Elsewhere

(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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