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- Mon Feb 01, 2016 6:48 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: New tricorn hat - stretch??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3991
Re: New tricorn hat - stretch??
If you're at TORM drop it into Kittyhats & we'll bang it on our stretcher for you. If it has an lining, as befits an officer of your standing, that'll have to be replaced as the fabric doesn't stretch as well as felt.
- Wed Jun 11, 2014 9:47 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Parchment interlining
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3275
Parchment interlining
From the Bodleian blog, on the use of cut up manuscripts for stiffening/interlining as discovered in some medieval garments. http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/2014/06/06/texts-and-textiles-finding-manuscripts-in-unusual-places/?utm_content=buffer8d278&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.co...
- Fri May 09, 2014 6:02 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Arrow Cock Fletching colour
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6008
Re: Arrow Cock Fletching colour
There's a thread on cock fletchings http://livinghistory.co.uk/forums/viewt ... 10&t=29134
As to dying feathers, the same dyes that work on wool will work on feathers as they are both protein based. The dyes for plant based fabric, cellulose, ent s'good.
As to dying feathers, the same dyes that work on wool will work on feathers as they are both protein based. The dyes for plant based fabric, cellulose, ent s'good.
- Fri May 02, 2014 8:15 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: How were cattle slaughtered?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 23010
Re: How were cattle slaughtered?
My argument was that as they got a fair proportion of meat from hunting... Farming animals for food was fairly well established by the muddyevil period, even bunnies were farmed. Hunting is a rich mans game where, if you catch kill something you can eat it, 'snot a reliable way of feeding people. H...
- Fri May 02, 2014 1:34 am
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Working class lady - Clothing layers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12020
Re: Working class lady - Clothing layers
http://education.gtj.org.uk/storage/Components/496/49622_2.JPG Newcastle Emlyn Costumes' by Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1792 http://imageweb-cdn.magnoliasoft.net/leedsartgallery/supersize/lmg109136.jpg Return from Market by Francis Wheatley, 1789 http://www.neheleniapatterns.com/assets/images/pp030bsp....
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:18 am
- Forum: Societies
- Topic: AT LAST! An authentic pirate living history group.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9303
Re: AT LAST! An authentic pirate living history group.
until you do some decent research and let me know where I can get a properly made bandana I'm happy in my fantasy pirate world thank you. Just so happens Griff Ol' Fruit, I have some pukka bandhani fabric from Indian which when I get my ar s e in gear I'll be making up into 'bandanas' so yes we can!
- Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:58 pm
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: WWI anti aircraft battery
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3898
Re: WWI anti aircraft battery
A & B Batt this time.
- Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:56 pm
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: WWI anti aircraft battery
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3898
WWI anti aircraft battery
WWI AA battery of the RGA, circa 1919 just before demob
B Battery but I forgot to put anything else down, Mem Sahib's Grandfather is in the somewhere.
B Battery but I forgot to put anything else down, Mem Sahib's Grandfather is in the somewhere.
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:05 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Early Napoleonic Gaitors
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2274
Re: Early Napoleonic Gaitors
SJ seamstress, http://www.sj-seamstress.com/MilitaryLegwear.htm
'Less you like them Nora Batty style it'd be best to get them fitted, at least have the buttons placed so they fit your leg properly.
'Less you like them Nora Batty style it'd be best to get them fitted, at least have the buttons placed so they fit your leg properly.
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:09 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Sleeveless Doublets for archers...
- Replies: 63
- Views: 22747
Re: Sleeveless Doublets for archers...
Have you tried H.E. Box in Weymouth for woollen/ worsted/moleskins etc cloth ... as good if not betterererer than Hainsworth.
Not a bustin' lot on their website but they are good at sending out swatches ... plus they's not a million mile from where you are.
http://www.he-box.co.uk/
Not a bustin' lot on their website but they are good at sending out swatches ... plus they's not a million mile from where you are.
http://www.he-box.co.uk/
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:59 pm
- Forum: Traders Discussion
- Topic: Tarot
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5729
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:10 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Newbie saying hi, and a question!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15833
Re: Newbie saying hi, and a question!
Sorry to take this on a tangent, all i was trying to suggest was that a "maul" is very much open to interpretation, but that it seemed very odd that a group of archers would all carry weapons that are incapable of cutting or stabbing. I'm of the mind that they are more agricultural camp/seige work ...
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 9:45 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Newbie saying hi, and a question!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15833
Re: Newbie saying hi, and a question!
I think it might be referring to Henry Barrett (1562) ….a maule of leade with a pyke of five inches longe, well stieled, sett in a staff of fyve foote of lengthe with a hooke at his gyrdell to take of and mayntayne the fighte as oure elders have donn, with handye stroaks For what it's worth, Roger ...
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 11:02 pm
- Forum: 1485-1603
- Topic: The Farm goes back to Tudor Times
- Replies: 83
- Views: 58559
Re: The Farm goes back to Tudor Times
Vanilla, AFAIK, doesn't rock up in English cookery, or indeed language, until the 1660s following hot on the heels of chocolate.
- Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:26 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: fire lighting
- Replies: 72
- Views: 24579
Re: fire lighting
I know it's raising another thread zombie but I thought it would be best to keep it together. 15thC picture of a man striking flint and steel from the altarpiece of the Saint Georges church in Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France. Though he has a box he's got the tinder possibly amadou/tinder fungus ontop of ...
- Fri Nov 01, 2013 4:28 am
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Coventry Sallet by Master M
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6158
Re: Coventry Sallet by Master M
No leaving drool on his helmet though...
Seeing stuff of that quality make it almost worth bothering with muddyevil again ... only almost though
Seeing stuff of that quality make it almost worth bothering with muddyevil again ... only almost though

- Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:18 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Ink recipes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6662
Re: Ink recipes
Sorry,The stoneware bottle was from the National Museum of Scotland in the link that Karen put up, NMS date on it of 1300-1500 but I would date it 1450+ and it's imported German/Raeren ware.
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:38 am
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Ink recipes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6662
Re: Ink recipes
Pretty stoneware, very German looking and more prob'ly toward the end of the date range they give, late 15th mebbe even later, into the16thC.


- Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:32 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: A Banner ! that's NOT a costume !
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3749
Re: A Banner ! that's NOT a costume !
Sewn, embroidered or painted?
- Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:28 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Common soldiers tents/shelters.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6011
Re: Common soldiers tents/shelters.
Late 15thC Burgundian camp with thatched shelters http://www.rogue-artist.com/gothicgermany/images/camp%20and%20march/heerlager1328_g.jpg 16thC German but lots a simple shelters and summit centre back that looks like the old SCUM bender tent from umpty several years back. http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw....
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:10 am
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Trying to learn fast
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7173
Re: Trying to learn fast
And again, talk to other MM members, several have, and still do, dabbled in mid 17thC 'nactment over the last umpty years.
- Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:22 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Mid 13thC footsoldiers - and their elusive shields...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6737
Re: Mid 13thC footsoldiers - and their elusive shields...
Besagew/bessage
- Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:29 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: What kind of fur is this lady wearing in about 1650?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5826
Re: What kind of fur is this lady wearing in about 1650?
It's very unlikely that the skirt is fur, prob'ly wool, linen or silk. Hood could be lined in fur possibly matching her tippet and muff. Like previous posters have said beaver is available as is wolf, otter, marten etc. The Muscovy Company had been trading with Russia, inc furs, for a while before t...
- Fri May 31, 2013 11:56 am
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Need help with Bread
- Replies: 34
- Views: 30743
Re: Need help with Bread
You'll need to trawl your way through the Assize of Bread and Beer for clues to grades of flour and permitted weights of loaves, as to pre late 16thC recipes for bread ... rocking horse droppings are waaaaaay more common. A wee snippet of the fun that awaits you Keep in mind that pounds (£), shillin...
- Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:11 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Medieval and Contemporary Pilgrimage
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3601
Re: Medieval and Contemporary Pilgrimage
Actually the majority of sites, ceremonies and relics were destroyed during Edward VI's reign under the supervision of Protector Somerset and Bishop Cranmer but No.8 always gets the blame as more people have heard of him than Ed.6
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:14 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Cleaning Clay Pipes?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5376
Cleaning Clay Pipes?
Anyone got period refs to clay pipes being cleaned out by burning/heating?
*posted in f&g too.
*posted in f&g too.
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:51 pm
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Recusant as a daily orator
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3703
Re: Recusant as a daily orator
Actress? Y'know the one that's always having conversations with the bishop...
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:51 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Attaching an aventail to Vervelles
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3917
Re: Attaching an aventail to Vervelles
I cut a shaped leather strip that went all the way round, missing out the bit above the face 'ole on the bascinet, then stitched the camail/aventail to the leather punched holes in t'leather were the vervelles went then ran a piece of heavyish picture hanging wire through the vervelles which held th...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:04 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Where can I get natural cotton?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20211
Re: Where can I get natural cotton?
Felting you need heat, water n some soap to help it along, the raw stuff tends to have a wee bit too much lanolin to dread it together easily (felt is essentially shaped dreadlocks).
Kitty(hats), Sally(Pointer) or Rachel(Crafty Beggers) could help with sheep rubbing advice all being dab hands at it.
Kitty(hats), Sally(Pointer) or Rachel(Crafty Beggers) could help with sheep rubbing advice all being dab hands at it.
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:57 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Where can I get natural cotton?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20211
Re: Where can I get natural cotton?
Cotton wool 'pleats' from Boots/Tesco/Superdrug etc? 'S 100% unspun cotton fibre http://www.boots.com/en/Boots-Baby-Cotton-Wool-Pleats-200g_924166/ If you're being really picky go organic http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Fairtrade--Organic-Cotton-Wool-Pleats/53193011 Or hit the Quilters shop on ...