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I'm new here...
Hi,
I've just taken up Tudoring, with my focus on the Elizabethan Age. Got some kit, where's it best to get more?
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I've just taken up Tudoring, with my focus on the Elizabethan Age. Got some kit, where's it best to get more?
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if you're not making it yourself, then i would go to annie the pedlar, who makes lots of yummy tudor clothes!!
here's her site -
http://www.anniethepedlar.com/
doubtless she will come along soon, as well as a few others. how new are you to tudoring, exactly?
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here's her site -
http://www.anniethepedlar.com/
doubtless she will come along soon, as well as a few others. how new are you to tudoring, exactly?
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I'm new here...
I'm very new to Tudoring. I have one suit of clothes and am researching the period furiously. Fortunately, I learned a fair bit about it from my Theatre Studies. I know Annie, slightly, and I understand she has things other than clothes for sale. Is that right?
I do four other periods already.
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I do four other periods already.
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yep, annie does other stuff too, not sure exactly what though! for more on clothes, i would buy 'the tudor tailor' which has stacks of info on tudor clothing from henrican to elizabethan, as well as patterns. if you are dead set on buying clothing rather than making it, i dont really know how to help you too much, but if you make it yourself (a lot more fun, and probably less expensive) then i can help you a lot more.
btw, why elizabethan? henrican is far better!!
are your clothes upper class or peasant, or somewhere inbetween? who do you tudor with, and how important is authenticity to you?
lidi
btw, why elizabethan? henrican is far better!!

are your clothes upper class or peasant, or somewhere inbetween? who do you tudor with, and how important is authenticity to you?
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I've already bought a suit £385 for doublet, round-hose, thigh-boots and hat - seemed too good an opportunity to miss.lidimy wrote:. if you are dead set on buying clothing rather than making it, i dont really know how to help you too much,
I may yet take you up on that - I still need a cloak and a sword-belt and perhaps another hat. Thanks very much for the offer.lidimy wrote: but if you make it yourself (a lot more fun, and probably less expensive) then i can help you a lot more.
Because of my interest in Elizabethan Theatre and Voyages of Discovery - my stock-in-trade.lidimy wrote:btw, why elizabethan? henrican is far better!!![]()
Mine are very distinctly upper class and I look a right tart in them! The suit just happened to fit like a glove and suits me very well. It's an ex-theatre costume, with lace cuffs and ruff attached, so not authentic in that respect. I really want it for schools' work, so it needs to look authentic . I'm thinking of getting a proper shirt, though. The ruff is one of those minimal ones, which I particularly like. I just bought a nice (sharp) rapier for £46, inc. p+p, but it has no belt, so I'm looking for one.lidimy wrote:are your clothes upper class or peasant, or somewhere inbetween? who do you tudor with, and how important is authenticity to you?
Annis, you'll see from my reply to Lidimy here, that I'm looking for a swordbelt and a shirt and some advice on cloak- and hat-making. I could also use some shoes, hose and accessories like eating kit and pistol or musket. Thanks for the offer of assistance.
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Try Karl Robinson
http://www.karlrobinson.co.uk
for swordbelts and 16th century leatherwork.
Not sure if their illustrated on his site yet, but he does some embroidered and pattern stitched baldricks and swordbelts. Vegetable dyed leathers and alum tanned as well
He's part of the Tudor Group
http://www.karlrobinson.co.uk
for swordbelts and 16th century leatherwork.
Not sure if their illustrated on his site yet, but he does some embroidered and pattern stitched baldricks and swordbelts. Vegetable dyed leathers and alum tanned as well
He's part of the Tudor Group
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Try http://karlrobinson.co.uk/ for your sword belt.
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I'm afraid i can't help you on the sword stuff, not my area, but my friend's dad works on the military pavilion at Kentwell so i could ask him.
Shirts are simple, can be made as a T shape, cloaks are 3/4 circle with a hood, but i doubt upper class tudors had hoods, i dont know, and as for hats, well, Ive made a peasant cow pat hat and that was really stressful!
Shoes: http://www.pilgrimshoes.co.uk/
Annie the Pedlar does good eating stuff, but again, i think its more peasant, she doesnt do pewter if you know what i mean.
Sorry about the rush, i will go over in more detail if you need it.
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Shirts are simple, can be made as a T shape, cloaks are 3/4 circle with a hood, but i doubt upper class tudors had hoods, i dont know, and as for hats, well, Ive made a peasant cow pat hat and that was really stressful!

Shoes: http://www.pilgrimshoes.co.uk/
Annie the Pedlar does good eating stuff, but again, i think its more peasant, she doesnt do pewter if you know what i mean.
Sorry about the rush, i will go over in more detail if you need it.
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http://www.tudorgroup.co.uk/What Tudor Group?
Very high standards and quality and heavily orientated towards living history.
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The Tudor Group?? woo, i'll be joining them soon enough if i get my way! i just want to get my gcse's out the way so that i will have more time, then off i'll be. i too was very impressed!
as for a shirt, i think that Sophia (who posts here under that name) makes them, but i'm not sure if she does elizabethan stuff. worth a try though, im sure she'll be happy to assist you either way. or, again, make it yourself. a shirt, IMO, would be a good place to start if you haven't really done much sewing before, as it doesnt need to 'fit' in the strictest sense and so mistakes are easily hidden underneath all the other layers of clothing! again, the Tudor Tailor has a pattern which is very easy to use. they have patterns for an assortment of hats and coifs too.
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as for a shirt, i think that Sophia (who posts here under that name) makes them, but i'm not sure if she does elizabethan stuff. worth a try though, im sure she'll be happy to assist you either way. or, again, make it yourself. a shirt, IMO, would be a good place to start if you haven't really done much sewing before, as it doesnt need to 'fit' in the strictest sense and so mistakes are easily hidden underneath all the other layers of clothing! again, the Tudor Tailor has a pattern which is very easy to use. they have patterns for an assortment of hats and coifs too.
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Tudor group are mega Mark and Ruth are lovely people and very friendly
Standards are very high too which is good
Hats you could do worse that talk to dirt billy in hte states I think he makes some 16th century stuff uses propere felt etc so they actually stand up to wear and weather.
Shirts pm tuppence on here she makes em too to any standard you want Iam biased of course
would also recommend Karl own a rapier hanger of his and it works
Standards are very high too which is good
Hats you could do worse that talk to dirt billy in hte states I think he makes some 16th century stuff uses propere felt etc so they actually stand up to wear and weather.
Shirts pm tuppence on here she makes em too to any standard you want Iam biased of course
would also recommend Karl own a rapier hanger of his and it works
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years more of hand sewn kitThe Tudor Group?? woo, i'll be joining them soon enough if i get my way!

also I love it when ruth gets out the photos of what she's been restoring recently

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what kind of hosen???
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Oh, there was someone at the Oyster Fayre in Colchester that sold LOADS of stockings of all different fantastic colours, alhtough a little dear at £4 a pair (mine have lasted about year until they started wearing out)
but I dont know what company it was.
Or alternatively, you could make and dye your own using stockingette (sp?) from Halfords and food colouring.
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but I dont know what company it was.
Or alternatively, you could make and dye your own using stockingette (sp?) from Halfords and food colouring.
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Beware cross gartering - it might not suit you!!Tamsin Lewis wrote:So are you wooing then?The kind that are like tights or stockings,...
And a nice shade of yellow,
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No, that was Lidimy. Does yellow hose signify wooing in the sense of courtship? I just wanted them to go with my doublet and trunk-hose, which are in shades of yellow, gold and brown.Tamsin Lewis wrote:So are you wooing then?The kind that are like tights or stockings,...
And a nice shade of yellow,
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£4 a pair seems quite reasonable to me ( am I getting soft, I wonder?).Annis wrote:Oh, there was someone at the Oyster Fayre in Colchester that sold LOADS of stockings of all different fantastic colours, alhtough a little dear at £4 a pair (mine have lasted about year until they started wearing out)
but I dont know what company it was.
Or alternatively, you could make and dye your own using stockingette (sp?) from Halfords and food colouring.
Annis x
Halfords the car parts people??
Ah, so the yellow hose reference is to Shakespeare and not to actual practice.
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yellow hose does indeed mean courtship - and not just in Shakespeare, there are numerous ballad references too, the most famous of which is 'A merie jest of John Tomson and Jakaman his wife' (licensed 1586) which has the refrain 'give me my yellow hose again, give me my yellow hose, for now my wife she watches me, see yonder where she goes'