Medieval cookware is an on-going but often neglected topic of interest for me. I’m utterly fascinated with the idea that the implements influence the food and cooking choices. My dream is to someday cook a meal using only period cookware and techniques. Ideas I want to research: I’ve seen references to cooking over a brazier. This would be like cooking…
Author: nibuca
Dog Collar
Hounds, dog+collar
Turkish Coat
From http://www.turkishculture.org/clothing/ottomanclothing5.html Ottoman Thrace, red silk velvet coat decorated with applications of corded gold embroideries and ribbons with printed cotton (basma) lining, 110×240 cm. Skeggi’s Coat
Cooler Basket
Cooler that doubles as seating and looks peri-oid.
Quick&Dirty Tunic Construction
Here’s my instructions for assembling a tunic with flat-felled seams. As with most hands-on things, this works much better in person. Please feel free to email me if you have questions or if I’m unclear. Sylvie (sylvie@fibergeek.com)
Embroidery on Clothing
Embroidery for Clothing – Anglo Saxon
Quick&Dirty Peri-oid tunic
This is my pattern for tunics, chemise, dresses. Whatever. Medevial-oid and tons better than a T-tunic or some silly “trace around your t-shirt patterns”. Sometimes called an R-tunic or “rectangular tunic.” This pattern uses gussets and gores. Love love love gussets and gores. I started with a pattern from a period garment that placed a gore in the middle of…
Written Word
Irish 1100 tale.. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1100derga.html 1400 wills: http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/Lbth/Lbthbook23.htm
Byzantine
http://www.gryph.com/byzantine/dress.htm A Byzantine Shirt from Manazan Caves, Turkey (8th century AD) (link)
Stool
http://midtown.net/dragonwing/col0003.htm