Garb/Clothing

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

Quick&Dirty

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)

Quick&Dirty

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…

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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

Garb/Clothing

Byzantine

http://www.gryph.com/byzantine/dress.htm A Byzantine Shirt from Manazan Caves, Turkey (8th century AD) (link)

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Glass Beads

http://www.sgb-midatlantic.org/how-tos.html http://www.corinabeads.com/ Scadian with sources: http://www.timelessbeads.com/