Thank you, yes Mick they look very good. Where are they based?

Yes - its us again. Luttrell Psalter part 2

Coach is probably the wrong term! Look up the carriage in the Luttrell Psalter and you will see the extent of our insanity!

Thank you yes, it did - the messaging system seems a bit weird - I had difficulty in replying! I will give him a call tomorrow.

Many thanks

Pauline

I am looking into the feasibility of having a medieval coach made. I am looking for the specialists and putting together a cost of the total project. I realise that there is probably nobody out there who has done anything quite like this, or on this scale, and that the project will be, in part, expe...

and here is Girl with a Pearl Earring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPxTOY4Serc

The brown wool for the Girl's jacket is from Bernie the Bolt, the brown silk for the Banyan/dressing gown from Burnley & Trowbridge Co.

In our series of comic sketches based on famous paintings, here is Girl with a Pearl Earring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPxTOY4Serc

I have just created a costume blog if anyone is interested:
http://periodwardrobe.wordpress.com/

MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all!

We have now done something similar to the already much parodied 1930's painting American Gothic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvf2hahw-Ig

My costume blog can be found here: http://periodwardrobe.wordpress.com/

Lol! Yes, I should have said, Leonardo da Vinci was played by the amazing Jack Greene, Time Traveller: http://www.barometerworld.co.uk/jack/Default.htm Leonardo was voiced by the Renaissance musician Dante Ferarra: http://www.danteferrara.co.uk/ Mona Lisa was played by Lydia Staniaszek (as a break f...

This is a bit of fun - I hope it makes you smile!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98_hwjkD4hA

followed by an alternative version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr1REckQtMA

and it took me a month to research and make all the layers of Mona Lisa's dress:
http://periodwardrobe.wordpress.com/

Thats how I work too - seen or unseen the pleasure is in research and craftsmanship!

Hi - in the revamp the site seems to have lost our replies. Try Colonial Williamsburg: http://www.history.org/

Out of curiosity, what's it for?

That is beautiful!

Thank you S! I keep doing that!

The 20 minute Luttrell Psalter Film is now avaiable on DVD. The film follows a year in the life of a medieval village as illustrated in the Psalter (incidentaly, we re-shot the harvest this year to catch better weather). The DVD also includes an interview with Michelle Brown (author of the Facsimile...

Here are a couple more pictures

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O3LH2FhnoTg

Here is the latest trailer and an image from filming.

Thank you Brother Ranulf. We have recreated the Waterhouse painting as part of the film, but we are keeping those pictures quiet at the moment! However, here is a picture of the beautiful Victoria, Lady of Shalott.

However, we found our beautiful Lady of Shalott (Victoria Rigby) through a poster campaign. Victoria spotted our poster in the ice cream parlour of Lincoln's Bailgate (where you can have your ice cream in a medieval undercroft!). We went back while filming to thank the shop and take down the poster:...

We found Jason Kingsley (Sir Lancelot) through this forum: www.tournamentstud.com
(many thanks Jason - it was a perfect shoot).

'All in the blue unclouded weather
Thick-jewell'd shone the saddle-leather,
The helmet and the helmet-feather'

We are making a short filmed dramatisation of Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott. After the discipline of making costumes for the Luttrell Psalter we are all enjoying the liberation of a Victorian Pre-Raphaelite view of the medieval world - which draws its inspiration from 400 years of costume hist...

Does anyone know of a supplier of Victorian boots for children? It is for a museum order. I have posted this query in the items for sale section too.

Cheers all.

I was given this tip years ago by a costumier. Dip the fabric in a very dilute solution of potassium permanganate, this has the effect of browning the fabric. We have used it frequently to dull brightly dyed linen reducing it to a more believable natural dye colour. It won't be suitable for your jac...

Can anyone recomend a CAD programme for pattern design? I have created so many patterns over the last few years that I have filled a four drawer filing cabinet and I would like to computerise them.

I think one of the biggest problems in the past (were diet induced caries wasn't much of an issue), was accidental damage. If it were not for modern dentistry many of us would have fairly unsightly smiles regardless of the care we have taken of our teeth. Hard physical work, sport, play, horse ridin...

Thanks, that is all very useful - I think a relative of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell was an abbess. Also the Benedixtine monks who are shown dining with the Lutrells have the same tight sleeves - it struck me as unusual too.

Thank you brother Ranulf - what about this one from the same source?

Any idea what order this nun might belong to (ignoring the purlpe which this artist uses liberally)? It's from the 14th c. Luttrell Psalter.

Brother Ranulf - do you know anything about the habit worn by the Gilbertine nuns?