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.

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=tw...

There's a thread on cock fletchings http://livinghistory.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=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.

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...

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....

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!

A & B Batt this time.

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.

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.

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/

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/s...

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 ...

Vanilla, AFAIK, doesn't rock up in English cookery, or indeed language, until the 1660s following hot on the heels of chocolate.

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 ...

No leaving drool on his helmet though...


Seeing stuff of that quality make it almost worth bothering with muddyevil again ... only almost though

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.

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.

Sewn, embroidered or painted?

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....

And again, talk to other MM members, several have, and still do, dabbled in mid 17thC 'nactment over the last umpty years.

Besagew/bessage

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...

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...

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

Anyone got period refs to clay pipes being cleaned out by burning/heating?

*posted in f&g too.

Actress? Y'know the one that's always having conversations with the bishop...

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...

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.

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 ...