Just so that I can warehouse them somewhere:

EVERYTHING HERE

Love these from ladykalessia:
Medieval and Renaissance Accessories
Hold Your Fire (period fire vessels & modern versions thereof)

....all the things from mmcnealy...

...and these from claughter713...
Germanfest (German costume inspirations)
Rustic Kitchen Lust (because a girl can dream of a cooking hearth ( Read more... )

Interesting thing about (German) reenactment: Not all the traditions we hold so dear come from actual history. Some of them just come from our history. For example, take the flag tearing ceremony that many (most?) 16th C groups who portray German Landsknecht take part in at the end of their campaign year or their 'main' reenactment event.*

My own ( Read more... )

I have been harassing Robert Harbin about webbing his Landsknecht kit constructions techniques FOR YEARS. If you don’t know Rob, you should. He does amazing leatherwork, knife construction, good basic wooden kit items (boxes, etc) and is generally one of the most “screw-it,-if-I-want-it-I-should-learn-to-make-it” people I know ( Read more... )

I was recently asked by a friend to describe how I had made one of the first Steuchlein’s I ever attempted. I make no bones about the fact that this is *not* a historically correct version - although the end results are nice looking.

What you will need:

Get a large, plastic coffee tin lid. The old fashioned Yuban or Folgers type. This need to be ( Read more... )

There are a number of common woodcuts from the 16th C. to which we have either surviving colored originals or descriptions of those originals from text sources (many thanks to jillwheezul - who completed the translation below for another member at this international Landsknecht site):

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Color woodcut images available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos ( Read more... )

Originally posted on the DHF BBS by Brayton Carpenter of Legendary Costume Works:

( The best way to pattern oneself for the doublet requires the assistance of a friend. )

Originally posted on the DHF BBS by Brayton Carpenter of Legendary Costume Works:

( To make the pants pattern, you are going to take an existing garment and adapt it accordingly. )

jillwheezul (my personal garb goddess as many of you are aware), dug up this original text information in regards to soldierly sumptuary law information from Max. In addition, she also dug up the original 'their lives are crappy, let them have fun quote'. DHF’s Christopher Triechel provided translation services, so what you are getting below is a copy from ( Read more... )

After finding myself digging through my German groups BBS for old posts on interesting data (the sites Search engine and I don’t get along); I realized that I would be better off just reposting the information here in my journal so that I can tag it to locate with ease when needed ( Read more... )

Since this theme keeps coming up in various places, I thought I should set up a blog post with all my favorite bits. This way I will have them 'on hand' when necessary.

Here are some Textiler Hausrat references that jillwheezulposted on the GermanRenCostume Yahoo group awhile back (inventory listings from that book):

The Texiler Hausrat references:

1507 Frau ( Read more... )