As you may remember, I had decided awhile back to tackle a project to recreate false braids ala the 16th C in Germany. These items, known as ' Zopfe' in Nürnberg, were frequent items in the dress indices of the period of study covered by Jutta Zander-Seidel's research in the " Textiler Hausrat".

I actually started with an attempt at a reconstruction ( Read more... )

See, if you just wait long enough, someone else finds/figures out the details for you.

My exploration of Steuchlein/Wulst/Zopfe combinations got derailed last year due to some rather confusing results in the mock-up stages (“Wait, the JA coifs are *how* small when made up to scale?!?”, “Why the hell to the braids not work with this stuffing, what ( Read more... )

OK, so I just talked sstormwatch  into helping out with some photo demos' of possible layer combinations for making up a Steuchlein. (*HUGS* Thank you!)

There are a few different styles I would like to try and recreate, clearly they all involve ‘similar’ layers, worn in a variety of ways. The layers as I see them are as follows:

False braids - Zopfe (*not ( Read more... )