Costuming Links

Anglo Saxon

 

Byzantine Garb

• A reconstruction of an extant tunic, with a pattern.
• Byzantine Clothing Info– Black Tauna.
• Byzantine Garb Basics– Anna’s Rome.
• Handout on 11th Century Byzantine Clothing Constructionby Lady Ariadne Karbonopsina (2013).

Celtic

• Celtic Clothing of the 16th Century
  Types of clothing worn by the Scots and the Irish during the 16th Century.
• Ireland, ca 5th-10th centuries CE
• Scottish Men’s Clothing
• Scottish Women’s Clothing

Elizabethan

• Great resource for both beginners and advanced sewers:http://www.elizabethancostume.net/index.html

Flemish

• 15th century Flemish:http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/15th/
• 15th Century Female Flemish Dress: A Portfolio of Images

Florentine

• Florentine: Artworks: http://www.abcgallery.com/P/piero/piero.html

Families

• Breastfeeding-friendly garb in period artwork.
• Dressing Children in the SCA.

General

•  60 Examples of Real Medieval Clothing
• Another cutting diagram and explanation of the more historically accurate pieced construction
• Articles of Interest by Cynthia Virtue
  A series of articles on clothing, accessories and hair treatments of the middle ages. Well researched with photos of original clothing and guides to help you shop.
• Basic Garb Guide: https://stmonica.lochac.sca.org/wiki/basic-garb-guide/
•  Basic introduction to garb
• circular or semi-circular cloaks
• Coifs (men and women)
• Costuming in general: https://welcome.sca.org/costuming/
• Extant finds: http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/II_01_01.htm
• Five Cross Cultural Embroidery Stitches 
• Footwear of the Middle Ages
• Medieval Costumes and Clothing 
•  Medieval Western Europe 
• Early Period Metallic Trims
• Sample Napkin, in a 10th Century Linen Weave
• Making a Basic T-Tunic
• Anglo-Saxon and Viking Works of the Needle
• Garb – Getting Started – Part 1
•  Generic styles of various times and cultures – plate 7 through to 49 are the most relevant: http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME1_INDEX.HTML
• Gored Tunic Pattern Generator
• Heraldic frocks: http://www.sca.org.au/st_florians/university/library/articles-howtos/heraldry/HeraldicFrocksS.htm
• Hoods
•  Hurstwic: Clothing in the Viking Age
• In depth look at T-tunic construction
• In Prayse of the Needle – Historically inspired needlework
•  Anglo-Saxon and Viking Textiles
• Bibliography of Sources Of Information on Period Tablet Weaves
• Extant Clothing of the Middle Ages
• Headwear
• Introduction to garb-making, with plenty of links: http://www.bayrose.org/AandS/handouts/Garb_intro.pdf
•  Late 14th Century Ladies’ Headdreses – the Basics
• Late Period Anglo Saxon Costume
• Marc Carlson’s home page – various medieval research and clothing
• Medieval Belt Purse
• Medieval Clothing Pages
• Medieval Costumes and Clothing 
• Nailbinding
• Newbie Garb That Doesn’t Look Newbie
• Period Hair.pdf
• Photos of Skjoldehamn set from Tromsø Museum taken by Dominik Schörkl
• Quick and dirty T-tunic
• Ravensgard Costuming and Textile Page
• Rosalie’s Medieval Woman – Veils and Wimples
• SCA Costumers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/48947078912/
• SCA Garb Basics: http://awanderingelf.weebly.com/blog-my-journey/sca-garb-basics-part-2
• St. Birgitta Cap
• The Costume Site / The Costume Source
• Patterns and Instructions for Medieval Russian Costumes
• The Costumer’s Manifesto: Your Free One-stop Site for Costume Information & Images
  Costume information and images
• The Cotehardie and Houppelande Webpage
  A history and guide to cotehardies and houppelandes.
• The Renaissance Tailor – Recreating 16th and 17th Century clothing 
• Veils
• Weaving On The Warp-Weighted Loom: Some Sources
• YOUTUBE Cloaks with Emphasis on Bocksten Man Bog find – Time 16:10

Islamic Garb

• A compilation of garb links from many times and places within our period, by Miriam bat Shimeon
• Asim’s Ottoman patterns.
• Making Mongolian Garb– chiefly useful for the links at the bottom.
• Medieval Islamic cloak-type wraps, by Samia.
• Medieval Islamic Women’s Undergarments, by Samia.
• Method for tying a turban, video by Timothy Dawson.
• Middle Eastern (Fatimid) man’s garb, by Samia.
• Mistress Ari Usni’s 15th and 16th Turkish clothing patterns(PDF).
• Seljuk Female Clothing, by Timothy Dawson.
• Seljuk Male Clothing, by Timothy Dawson.
• Stepping Out: Headwear and mantles in Egyptian and western Arabic dress in the fifth to seventh centuries after the Hijra (late 10th to thirteenth centuries c.e.)by Timothy Dawson.
• The Red Kaganate– many links on Mongol clothing including some patterns.
• Urban Middle Eastern clothing layers, an overview by Samia.
• Women’s 16th century Ottoman dress: The Costumes of Ottoman Women

Viking Era

• A Quick and Dirty Look At Viking Women Garb
• An Archaeology Guide to Viking Men’s Clothing
• Colors, Dyestuffs and Mordants of the Viking Age
• Norse Under Tunic – Measurements & Pattern Sizing – pattern generator
• Thora Sharptooth’s Viking resources
• Thorson and Svava’s Basic Viking Garb for Men and Women (local copy: men, women)
• Viking Answer Lady’s clothing links
• Viking Embroidery Stitches and Motifs
• Viking Tunic Construction
• Viking Women’s garb in Art and Archaeology
• Viking-Style Tablet Weaving: A Birka Strapwork Motif