I was wondering if anyone can recommend websites to buy clothes off cause my boyfrind and another few are very unwilling to sew anything. Basically just tunics or trews later medieval preferably, norman or knights hospitaller period.
I was wondering if anyone can recommend websites to buy clothes off cause my boyfrind and another few are very unwilling to sew anything. Basically just tunics or trews later medieval preferably, norman or knights hospitaller period.
Thanks a bunch for any help in advance
Probably best to pick an actual date as in some centuries even 25 years will make a difference as to what goes. Also, what level of accuracy are they after, all machine sewn, no visible machine stitching, or all handsewn?
Drop Debs a line she is slowly getting back to work
We keepa certain amount of Norman kit in stock to feed the group newbies with
Hospitaller is a bit more specialised
There’s a country in Europe where they treat their ex soldiers with pride no waits for medical treatment after injuries received during service, no amensia from the government. Cant for the life of me recall where it is but I know exactly where it is not.
I will be down in Cork at the weekend and can go over some of the Hospitaller kit stuff - are you planning on getting kit together as a:
-Knight
-Sergeant
-Chaplain
-Sister (yes they did have the equivalent of a nunery, one at least -Devon/Cornwall springs to mind but not sure)
-Corrody holder (There were 2 females with this status in Kilmainham in the early 1300s)
-Mercenary on hire to the order (Whether it be as archer or other...)
-Servant
-...
You really need to figure out a) Target year b) Budget available (Direct linkage to quality of product i.e. machine/hand stitched) c) TIme available to make stuff and likelihood of doing it
To be a pedant though I don't believe there is any evidence for early hose (i.e. pre fastening to doublet) being fastened on the side or indeed to a belt.
Do not be loath, diligent reader, to winnow my chaff, and lay up the wheat in the storehouse of your memory. For truth regards not who is the speaker, nor in what manner it is spoken, but that the thing be true - Nennius, 8th century
There’s a country in Europe where they treat their ex soldiers with pride no waits for medical treatment after injuries received during service, no amensia from the government. Cant for the life of me recall where it is but I know exactly where it is not.
This isn't a bad guide at all - although there are a few other things I would question.
I'm not sure Aketons were around in 1050
I'd also be wary of the 1305 mentions of no more mail gauntlets and it also makes it sound like hardened leather armour is now the prominent type - which as far as I''m aware it was a rarity. IMO for this year, you can't go wrong with head to foot mail with no other supplemental armour than padded cuisses and poleyn.
Biro wrote:I'm not sure Aketons were around in 1050
They certainly were for 1066. Reckon that there was some massive revolution in the meantime ?
I'd also be wary of the 1305 mentions of no more mail gauntlets and it also makes it sound like hardened leather armour is now the prominent type - which as far as I''m aware it was a rarity. IMO for this year, you can't go wrong with head to foot mail with no other supplemental armour than padded cuisses and poleyn.
You are dead right about mail gauntlets in early 1300s, changed. I'll just say 'By Visby in 1360, most knights had substantial splint gauntlets'. Also 'leather' is misleading. Most of what I've seen was steel/leather mixed armour, not leather on its own (though some of the osprey books do cite sources for large proportions crafted hardened leather armour around 1310-1340).
I've also changed the 1250 hose to be fastened to braes...I didn't know that, and will have to change mine
valen wrote:
I've also changed the 1250 hose to be fastened to braes...I didn't know that, and will have to change mine
John
awesome, my inner pedant is sleeping like a baby
Don't forget to remove side fastening as it's a terrible, terrible re-enactorism
I've seen evidence for the late 15th/early 16th century for belt fastening hose but am not sure there's anything earlier than that. Though post 1370 I have little idea.
Do not be loath, diligent reader, to winnow my chaff, and lay up the wheat in the storehouse of your memory. For truth regards not who is the speaker, nor in what manner it is spoken, but that the thing be true - Nennius, 8th century
now can someone draw me a picture cause i've no idea whats going on...
nitpicking is what's going on
Do not be loath, diligent reader, to winnow my chaff, and lay up the wheat in the storehouse of your memory. For truth regards not who is the speaker, nor in what manner it is spoken, but that the thing be true - Nennius, 8th century
Biro wrote:I'm not sure Aketons were around in 1050
They certainly were for 1066. Reckon that there was some massive revolution in the meantime ?
They certainly were in 1188 (assizes of henry II). Before then I am unaware of evidence clearly indicating the use of padding that isn't Roman/Byzantine.
nathan wrote:
They certainly were in 1188 (assizes of henry II). Before then I am unaware of evidence clearly indicating the use of padding that isn't Roman/Byzantine.
N.
That was my view too. I've been looking for earlier sources but havn't found any .. :-/ If anyone can help with this, I'd be a happy man
Ask Debs she has hundred of obscure pictorial references to all things padding
I know one of the obscure German paslaters has an illustration of what must be padding worn in a battle
Plus ask Hobbit stomper abotu weird references in sagas
There’s a country in Europe where they treat their ex soldiers with pride no waits for medical treatment after injuries received during service, no amensia from the government. Cant for the life of me recall where it is but I know exactly where it is not.
valen wrote: I've also changed the 1250 hose to be fastened to braes...I didn't know that, and will have to change mine
John
Litterally, they fastened to the breach girdle, which is the thing that keeps your brais/breeches up. I've started using at thick band of fabric threaded through a casing in the breeches for that, but I've not put it into use yet to say how comfy it actually is. The cord I used before was not pleasent.
I thought that I read in The Medieval Tailor's Assistant that there was evidence for side fasteneing hoes, though it could just be a twisting of the leg. It does seem a little odd to have the seam on the inside, rather than the back.
The Bayeux Tapestry shows a number of things that are assumed to be gambesons/aketons. AFAIK, we don't know what was worn under mail before 1250 or so. There is a picture in the BT of a knight being stripped of his mail and being naked underneath, but I can't beleive that was actually how it was worn!
