Recreating the past
This is a throwback to a linen dress I made in 2010, and a retrofitting I then did in 2015. The reason I decided to make these changes was two problems: it doesn’t have the typical square neck line we see in German woodcuts during this time period, as well as being a bit too […]
A vest probabaly made out of leather to protect the clothes, commonly seen in Landsknecht woodcuts. The pattern based on the two above woodcuts; Front and back (note that the back mid seam is against a folded edge), the measuments are calculated for an XL Male. Sources; Britishmuseum.org
After I made my first pair of socks (read more here), a friend posted pictures of a a pair of short linen socks found at Regensburg Historisches Museum in Germany. The design on these is more simple then my first guess, with what seems to be just two sets of pieces and I’ve finally got […]
While working with the latest Tellerbarret and its feathers, a type of landsknecht hats seems to be covered with fluffy feathers poking almost straight out on the brim and at each top, decorated with a tip of some kind. I couldn’t find any information about how to achieve the look, and started some small […]
An inventory in the Textiler Hausrat mention a fabric covered straw hat, and I decided to try the technique by doing a specific kind of Tellerbarret. First book of fashion also mention hats covered in fabric, but doesn’t give any clues of what the base might be made of. Probably not all hats of this […]
A friend asked me to make her a feather for her Elevation outfit and this is the end result; It contains no less then 3 ostrich feathers, each hand curled, stitched together and decorated with filigree decoration on both ends and along the stem. Decorated feathers seems to be used around the 16th […]
1) Lets tie this hat to the head The Graf woodcut shows some kind of cord thread through the brim and tied on top of the head and the woodcuts also shows the same construction on both men and women. (Swiss) The Coloured woodcut shows a man with a similar construction, this time with the […]
(Urs Graf 1517 Since the whole dress on my woodcut isn’t really visible and doesn’t provide any specific details, I collected woodcuts made by Urs Graf, and sorted them into chronological order to better get an idea of the evolution of a Swiss dress from around 1500 and up to around ten years after the […]
Finish tabards for Team Sweden for this years Medieval Combat in Polen Watch the promotion video of this years fight here Team Swedens home page
The quick and dirty introduction of who’s who; Until 1490 the Swiss were the superior warriors of Europe, and Swiss instructors was imported to tech German soldiers how to fight, forming a new group of mercenaries in Europe, the Landsknechts. The Landsknechts also copy the Swiss outfit and even added more slashes and flamboyant look […]