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- Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:32 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Tudor babies
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2588
Re: Tudor babies
Your best introduction to this is the recently published 'The Tudor Child' from the team at the Tudor Tailor. Might I ask where you are intending to do Tudor reenactment?
- Sun Jan 12, 2014 6:48 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Gown Hem Hook - 1500s
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6712
Re: Gown Hem Hook - 1500s
None that I am aware of in the visual record (remember we have limited resources for England and most portraits are not full length) and have not checked any dig reports or inventories for them. I don't do anything vaguely posh for pre-1485 as I am a camp cook and gunner's wife. The best clothing bo...
- Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:23 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Gown Hem Hook - 1500s
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6712
Re: Gown Hem Hook - 1500s
Hooks in the record seem to come in two size groups IIRC - small for hooking rather than tying woven garters (seen this used successfully by the Hampton Court Tudor Cookery Team) and larger ones for skirts which as Mally says work a treat. They are mainly copper metal alloy. I bought my copper metal...
- Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:52 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: 15th century hose - Historic Enterprises
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4551
Re: 15th century hose - Historic Enterprises
If you are looking for clothes made of more accurate cloth you need to find someone who will make them out of a medium to light weight 2:2 twill with a good firm finish. This cloth was known as Kersey in period and sometimes referred to as hose cloth. You can make them out of a plain weave cloth but...
- Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:34 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Glove makers?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7190
Re: Glove makers?
Coming late to this one. I generally find it is better to actually ring Karl as when I last spoke to him (organising to have a couple of old stuff made by him mended) he was really busy with work for commercial customers. Lead time will depend on how his order book is.
- Tue May 28, 2013 8:36 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Early crusades Jewish Priests costume?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6194
Re: Early crusades Jewish Priests costume?
IIRC they had to wear a yellow wheel badge in Strasbourg and were periodically expelled and ended up in Rosheim and such places. We really ought to get together at some point and compile a definitive list for Medieval/Early Modern mainland Europe just for the hell of it!
- Mon May 27, 2013 10:55 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Need help with Bread
- Replies: 34
- Views: 32099
Re: Need help with Bread
Sorry - cannot help there, have also previously talked with a friend who has done a great deal of research and has found nothing. I am working on the basis of a knowledge of traditional artisan bread baking techniques used in Europe (Luxembourg is interesting as it sits between France and Germany so...
- Mon May 27, 2013 10:47 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Early crusades Jewish Priests costume?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6194
Re: Early crusades Jewish Priests costume?
Thanks for that Marcus - wasn't sure exactly when the silly hats/badges were introduced!
- Mon May 27, 2013 10:24 am
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Need help with Bread
- Replies: 34
- Views: 32099
Re: Need help with Bread
Long fermentation simply refers to bread dough which is left to work for a longer period. Prior to the introduction of modern industrial production techniques most bread was more or less long fermentation. Also it tends to use less yeast. Most peoples homemade bread whether made by hand or in a brea...
- Sun May 26, 2013 8:18 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Early crusades Jewish Priests costume?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6194
Re: Early crusades Jewish Priests costume?
For future reference unless you are in a compulsory silly hat or badge area you are basically looking mainly at local dress. Married women will on the whole cover all their hair even when it is not fashionable and generally have higher neck lines and long sleeves even when fashion differs. All men w...
- Sun May 26, 2013 4:49 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Need help with Bread
- Replies: 34
- Views: 32099
Re: Need help with Bread
There are two types of bread at this period: Sourdough which uses a pre-existing culture of local wild yeasts in the form of a starter. Bread made with Ale Barm, the yeasty residue skimmed from the brewers' vats, which as they were brewing on a regular basis was easily obtained. Block yeast or dried...
- Mon May 20, 2013 11:24 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Sure as eggs is eggs......
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7548
Re: Sure as eggs is eggs......
Ooh! May need to talk to you when I have some money, could really do with marchpane and quince paste mould in various shapes.
- Mon May 20, 2013 9:55 am
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: trenchers................and the square meal story
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18887
Re: trenchers................and the square meal story
There are details and sources for Trencher Bread in Brears, P. 'Cooking and Dining in Mediaeval England' - hope this helps!
- Mon May 06, 2013 7:22 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Landschneckt Costume - can anybody make one?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5964
Re: Landschneckt Costume - can anybody make one?
Lightweight wools lined with pure linen with pure linen shirts/shifts and braies under them are the way to go. Any stiffening canvases should also be pure linen. The linen will wick the moisture away from the skin and the wool breathes. Do not use cotton as it swamps. If you have a pure linen garmen...
- Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:14 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: 17-18thC Working women's stays video
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5188
Re: 17-18thC Working women's stays video
Please also complement Tam on her stays which really show that at this period they are fitted to the body and mould, rather than reducing like Victorian viewers.
- Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:13 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: 17-18thC Working women's stays video
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5188
Re: 17-18thC Working women's stays video
Indeed - My C16th hat seema to be firmly stuck to my head at the moment. 

- Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:51 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: 17-18thC Working women's stays video
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5188
Re: Working women's stays video
Very interesting Foxe. This is a good example for stays in a period (C17th) where they are attested at all levels of society and emphasizes the importance of a good fit. This in and of itself is an issue as not everyone is good at making stays or can afford the services of a stay maker. This is prob...
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:49 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Need a costume maker we can tie down!!!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4701
Re: Need a costume maker we can tie down!!!!!
As I said in my email to you, it is very difficult to give a costing without more precise information and a definite time scale. Made to measure clothing takes time and there is a whole scale of levels of authenticity and types of cloth that could be used which all have varying prices. If you give a...
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:39 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: colour me poor
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5107
Re: colour me poor
The lighter shades of woad are relatively cheap, deep shades particularly on wool or silk are luxury items. IIRC the lighter shades are predominantly associated with serving men and apprentices, particularly for coats and jerkins in C16th (think Bluecoats school). Woaded cloth may well have been mor...
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:23 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Natural Dyes?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41140
Re: Natural Dyes?
I have heard good reports of these people http://www.jacquardproducts.com/idye.html
Indeed the results I have seen have been very nice (quick nod to Jackie Phillips at http://www.cloakedanddaggered.com/ for showing me the results she obtained).
Indeed the results I have seen have been very nice (quick nod to Jackie Phillips at http://www.cloakedanddaggered.com/ for showing me the results she obtained).
- Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:26 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: medieval oatcake recipe?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19588
Re: medieval oatcake recipe?
Staffordshire oatcakes are 50/50 wheat and oatflour and raised with yeast. Normally contain milk and lard or similar but can be adapted for veggies/vegans. Plenty of recipes on the web.
- Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:29 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Natural Dyes?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41140
Re: Natural Dyes?
Details about Kentwell here. Best event is the June/July one as that is when the largest number of things are happening. Open to the public on the weekends.
- Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:07 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Natural Dyes?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 41140
Re: Natural Dyes?
Weld is your cheapest natural dye as it grows very well on disturbed/wasteland so once you know what to look for you can find it for nothing in a lot of places, even in town. Just don't randomly park your car on a roundabout or lose your keys in the field when picking it :wink: The actually results ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:56 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Parti coloured kirtle in WOTR. Yes or no?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10278
Re: Parti coloured kirtle in WOTR. Yes or no?
If you need to piece you can however put a waist seam in each of your four panels - the flat piece should be the same. Can be useful if you are using an even weave cloth with no direction, just ensure that the bodice section is cut as woven as it carries the most stress.
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:45 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Where can I get natural cotton?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20744
Re: Where can I get natural cotton?
Tod - on the matter of washing the fleece I suggest you stick your face deep in your fleece and take a deep breath and then imagine the odour once it is brought up to body heat or slightly above. Basically unwashed fleece is pretty stinky to say the least remember it will all sorts of assorted fluid...
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:23 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: medieval oatcake recipe?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19588
Re: medieval oatcake recipe?
Put a little fat on the bake stone - a solid lump of bacon fat is good as you can easily wipe it over the surface. When it comes to shaping the cake wet your hands before hand as it will stop the mix sticking (you may need to do this in between as well). To turn them whittle yourself a wooden spatul...
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:15 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Where can I get natural cotton?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20744
Re: Where can I get natural cotton?
I have been recommended Ecover Delicates Liquid for washing raw fleece (not quite gotten round to it due to life and bad weather). Spread out and pick over fleece first, then put a modest amount in a bucket with the correct amount of liquid for the volume of water (cold will do), then swoosh gently ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:06 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Late 14th early 15th c handwrititng
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8537
Re: Late 14th early 15th c handwrititng
For Kentwell you will need to focus of specific Suffolk/Essex border's styles if I have understood him correctly!
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:46 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Perfect half hose
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3986
Re: Perfect half hose
Also try and find a twill cloth (recognizable by the visible diagonal in the weave and as fine as possible for wool) even if it a little more expensive. Hose are cut with this diagonal running vertically down the front of the leg which maximizes the elasticity of the cloth. You can use a plain weave...
- Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:45 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Medieval Theatre
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3093
Re: Medieval Theatre
Get on Jstor and construct some search strings based on your query, you will be amazed at what turns up 
