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- Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:51 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Rosaries, Crucifix and Cross Pendants
- Replies: 29
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Essentially the two big themes in medieval jewellery are religion and love http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/47183-popup.html - certainly shows that the wearing of jewellery of basically deventional purposes happened. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O17851 the only rosary to survive the reform...
- Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:34 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: kidney pouch fittings?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6004
Looking at dress accessories on p350 lists of purses/pouches which are very much like kidney pouches although it doesn't use that term; illustrations on page 351 (some nice pictures of the mounts too and on pg 357 the purse frame It does state that they don't come into the archaeological record unti...
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:02 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: What to give for New Year, 1526!
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11557
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:28 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: What to give for New Year, 1526!
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11557
Annis I'd go for a white (as fine as you can linen) partlet. Look at the walking lady by Holbein (there's a link on the kentwellies site) - this is about the level you should be aiming at - and no train) To be honest I'm not sure whether you really have to black work either it's not as evident (alth...
- Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:46 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: What to give for New Year, 1526!
- Replies: 85
- Views: 11557
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:00 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:37 pm
- Forum: Traders Discussion
- Topic: Financial aid for business's ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3197
try this website for benefits and tax credits etc it's quite helpful as to what you're eligible for etc
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- Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:01 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
As I understand it - there isn't really (am of course prepared to be shouted down on this but looking at my pictures etc). Wasn't term a WC one? Hose should in general (because I just know someone will find a picture showing something different) be laced to a doublet about 10-15cm below your waist a...
- Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Black colour begone! - A little help please
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1923
- Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:27 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Black colour begone! - A little help please
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1923
- Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:21 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Animal Tails
- Replies: 199
- Views: 26602
- Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: Kids Activities
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1404
What about some sort of fishing game? Pin the tail on the donkey Push penny games.. Treasure hunt.. biggest bucket (or a tin bath if you can find it) of sand with lolly sticks stuck into it with coloured tape - red, green, yellow - the rarest colour gets a prize Battle ships? prizes - bananas or ora...
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:19 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Problems with 81 year old fashion victims!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1872
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:08 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Dyeing with madder.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1850
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:58 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Hopefully, a simple question on seams!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1585
Nothing would have made us warm this easter - not even my gown was warm and it is boiling normally ..abolutely Annie dress, coat but this goes back to my point that we've got used to wearing not enough clothes and the whole Kentwell petticoat compromise was a way of ensuring that everyone wore and l...
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:57 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Hopefully, a simple question on seams!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1585
I think we probably line too much- look the museum of london book on material finds from the 14/15 cent for example however it can be difficult getting fabric heavy enough. I'm with Annie on what our dresses should look like (and I suspect the unslightly gap was simply covered up with an apron a lot...
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:08 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
Since most images (yes I know you've found lots of exceptions guys - how many are saints btw since that pretty much negates their use for the same reason as Elizabeth didn't have her head covered in most of her portraits but Our Lady would have) are of people wearing hats and there are indeed lots o...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:55 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
Dave unless I've missed something bishops then as now are men - not the point. St Paul (as I'm sure you recall) asks women to cover their hair and it's women and their wicked wiles that he and christian church have tended to be more fussed about anyway. Men except for convention sake can do what the...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:29 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
Fox - it was interest rather than anything else that caused me to ask .. there is of course St paul's letter to the corinthians which is the key new testament basis for head covering. With the exception of our Lady (and St Anne in specific contexts) you very rarely see an image of an adult woman wit...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
I think Jorge's point is true - yes people did until very recently simply wear more clothes. There are consistent photos of people taken unawares of them doing just that dating from the 1880s on - think of all that film footage of the 1920s and the 1930s in colour - that appears in tv. The people in...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:41 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
Re-enactorism - I took it be something that we showing or telling gave the impression to the public was common/happened when the evidence appears to suggest it doesn't. Potboy - nope you're right I simply couldn't think of an easily understood medieval term off the top my head..spitboy? Er My origin...
- Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:41 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
underwear - anything less than a doublet (man) only one layer over the smock for a woman I'm with Jorge on that - but it also depends on who you are If you're the Cook - then your doublet should be on because if there is a younger man/boy/woman to do the lifting/carrying/chopping for you(or at at le...
- Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:53 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
i refer to my post about who and when you are.. apart from in the beer tent (dave) Not wearing enough clothes.. women should be wearing at least two layers and probably a jacket No walking around in underwear - gentlemen unless you are actually a potboy or actually working in the fields Oh that does...
- Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:26 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
Absolutely however the foxtails? the black shirts? the bits of kit so out of period they could only have been given to you by your time travelling half-elf fairy god mother and you're only wearing 'cos you think they look cool. And so much stuff (and please don't make fun of me this time) hanging of...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:05 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
Sorry to drag this back to colours for a moment..but there's also the sumptuary laws which whilst they whilst they do seem to have been broken often did forbid the wearing of darker colours for the lower orders even dyeing naturally darker wools with woad etc... This would seem to add weight to the ...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:59 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
The darker the colour the harder it is the maintain that colour hence why black is generally given as the most expensive colour although there is also kermes (red purple too but I wouldn't advise most people to be wearing that since it's associated with the church) - is possible to achieve. Looking ...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:16 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Re-enactorisms
- Replies: 222
- Views: 21640
That's a good argument but to do that you have to carry it through - if you are going to be dressed according to fashions of your youth - as there is fairly good evidence people did (for example numerous funeral brasses) then you need to carry it through. There is less evidence from paintings or bra...