OK, first off - thank you for your patience with my little ‘ Origins of the Landsknecht’ blog-series/project. I swear, I *am* actually sewing and will blog about that soon as well. As a point of observation; I say I won’t quilt because I don’t see the point of cutting fabric into small pieces, sewing it back together and then cutting it up again to ( Read more... )

I love Katrin Kania's blog, "a stitch in time". Today she posted this lovely info on extant German undies from the 16th c.

Yeppers.

Undies.

*i <3 extant undies*


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Well crap.

The hubby pointed out last night that I am not really following my own rules about dress “design” when it comes to this placard fronted dress project. I tend to pick a dress from a specific image and then reproduce it as closely as possible. At the very least, if I make a dress that is not from a specific source I work to ensure that the ( Read more... )

*sounds of brain spinning and gears grinding*

Having thought about the various inspiration images from my last post, I think it is pretty clear that I am interested in making one of the ‘placard front’/high necked dresses. The gown I end up making won’t be a recreation of any specific inspiration image, but I am pulling from all three current ( Read more... )

OK folks, now for that other project I mentioned in my last post about Schaube. The dress.

It is time for new garb; my old garb is lovely but no longer fits, and I am sort of itching to try out some sewing ideas with a new Rock. The first question, as always, is what dress to make. I love my ‘T-front’ camp dress…but technically I have one of those ( Read more... )

In running throught the WGA this morning looking for graphics of aprons in the early 16th C (come on, you know you want to help me! *wink*) I ran across the following two images. ( I think many of you have seen these before, but they sparked a thought in me: )

Jonas Samuelsson of http://www.landsknecht.org/ posted a request for infomration on the manner in which this cloak was made:

Detail from Cranach, "Dining with Holofernes, 1531" 

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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. )

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... )