Hi! I’m new to this list and to early period garb. After 5yrs of doing Elizabethan and two kids later, I’ve given up wearing corsets 🙂 I’ve been searching the web and there seems to be no real consensus on the basic construction of the bliaut. Do most people follow …
On the Authentic-SCA list, we were discussing the differences between bliaut, cotehardies, etc, and someone said there was no extant instances of bliaut. Then someone else said: “ah – there is. In Lodose they’ve found several sections of these gowns, with pleating. The pleats are actually sewn in with running …
I am working on my bliaut, and finally realized I am never going to embroider the sleeves like I want to. I was thinking of quilting a band and attaching it instead. I was thinking of something along the lines of the border pattern on this manuscript http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/manesse/manesseHome.htm Isabeau Eagdyth …
Do y’all round the hems of gores before you set them into your tunics/dresses? What happens if you don’t round them? Can I set them in and then just let the dress hang overnight? Or will the sewing gremlins attack my machine if I do such a thing? ~ Jannifer …
As nearly as I can tell, this is our 12th Century. Has anyone done anything with this? Is there any research on this you can point me to? http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/Mulli/html/media/valokuva/e_puku.html ~ Esther / ED Reese Message #969, April 2, 2003 Hello! Are you also on the Norsefolk yahoo group? In their …
(original subject line: Re: Re: Braid casings research request) “I had seen copies available at www.abebooks.com but it was a reprint.” And what’s wrong with reprints? 🙂 I just want to know what to look out for. ~ Jannifer / Jan C. Lane Message #965, April 1, 2003 There was …
I am working on a redraft of my opinion/observations article on 12thc women’s hairstyling. I’ve been looking on my own and I’m coming up empty, except for Goddard, so I’m really desperate for help. What I need to get from others are any reliable information they might have on braid …
I need help in making a bliaut kind of dress, or just really any dress present in the middle ages with bell sleeves that grabs under the bust. Please help me, I’ve got about a month to make it. Thanks. “snow_white2756” Message #955, March 25, 2003 A month should be …
I have seen what you all think about the lacing technique – whip lacing vs. cross lacing, on our bliauts. I have a question I never thought to ask before, and do not remember discussion about this here. Does anyone have advise, documentation, etc. on the holes that the lacings …
(original subject line: Book) I’d just like to recommend a fairly new book (2002). “Courtly love undressed. Reading through clothes in Medieval Fench culture” by E. Jane Burns. It is not a book on dress history but a book on how dress can be “read” to see how dress is …
