Ravensgard Costuming and Textiles Page

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  • Deborah Pulliam's Janet Arnold Bibliography
  • Costuming Bibliography
  • Chimene and Gerek's Costuming
  • Calligraphy & Illumination
• Analysing a Style   updated 10/11/2011
• The Art of Hairdressing
• A Brief History of Hosiery   updated 10/11/2011
• Clone Yourself a Fitting Assistant - Page 1 - Threads Magazine
• Cope (Catholic Encyclopedia)
• The Costume Gallery
  • The Costume Gallery's Research Library
• The Costumer's Manifesto
• The Costuming Page
• Counter-cut velvet stripe. Florence late XV century
• La Couturière Parisienne: Medieval & Renaissance
• Dark Age Stitches (NFPS unofficial)
• Drafting a Basic Bodice Pattern   updated 6/11/2011
• Duct Tape Double
• Early Medieval Clothes Patterns
• Ethnic Costume and Textile Links
• Finding time to Sew
• Florilegium - Clothing Index
• The Great Pattern Review
• The Grey Company: Basic Dark Ages Costume
• Grizel's Medieval Beadwork Pages
• Hats
• Historical Costume List
• h-costume archives
• Historical Costume Archives
• Historical Costuming FAQ
• The History of Costume by Braun
• How to Fit a Bodice
• Medieval Clothing Pages Articles and Essays of Interest to Customers
  • Graceful ways to wear a veil
  • Introduction to Garb
  • Modern Patterns for Recreationist Use
  • Practical Worksheet for Tunic Construction
• Medieval European Costume Links
• Medieval Sourcebook: The Regulations of the Garment Cutters' Gild of Stendal, 1231
• Milieux: Costume Page
• Monumental Brasses - Picture Library - Ladies' Dress   updated 10/11/2011
• Reflections in Time
• Rowan Fairgrove's Needle arts
• Shirt Making Guide
• Some Clothing of the Middle Ages
• Two historians say chastity belts are purely medieval myths   updated 10/11/2011
• Tunics/Cotes
• Tunic and Pants
• University of Rhode Island: Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design: Master of Science
• Shoes, Stockings, and Accessories
  • See also Leatherworking
  • Aumôxnières, otherwise known as alms purses
  • Donna Kenton's Knitted Stocking Pattern
  • Egyptian Cotton Socks
  • Eleanor of Toledo's Stockings
  • Evidence of Gloves from the 12th to the 16th Centuries
  • Florilegium - Hosiery Manufacture in the Middle Ages
  • Footware of the Middle Ages
  • Headgear: A brief introduction
  • How to be a HOOD-lum: Medieval Hoods
  • How to Make a Coif
  • How to Make a Hood
  • How To Make A Pair Of Gloves, One Pair At A Time
  • Medieval Egyptian Knitting
  • My Recreation of A Medieval Egyptian Sock in The Textile Museum Washington, D.C.
  • Medieval Muslim Egyptian-Style Knit Ankle Sock
  • A Simple Medieval Shoe
  • 3 Fingered gloves
• Culture Specific Costume
  • Miscellaneous
    • About 12th Century Clothing
    • An Arming Coat of the Albigensian Crusade
    • Blue Tunicella or Dalmatic of Holy Roman Empire
    • Cauls, Truncated and Butterfly Henins, and theories 15thC
    • CGFA-Jean Fouquet: The Melun Diptych (detail)   updated 6/11/2011
    • Clothed Seemly and Proper, the Second Part: The late 11th and 12th centuries
    • Clothed Seemly and Proper, the Third Part: The late 12th and 13th centuries
    • A comparative study of extant garments relevant to East Denmark in the mid-to-late 14th Century
    • Conquest Era Clothing in England
    • La cotte simple
    • Jessamyn's Closet: Costume in Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Portugal
    • The Cotehardie & Houppelande Homepage
    • An English Hood: step-by-step instructions
    • European Dark Ages Dress
    • Evidence for women's heraldic surcotes
    • A Fourteenth-Century Jester's Costume
    • Garb Seemly and Proper, Part IV: The Fourteenth Century
    • Garb Seemly and Proper, Part V: Burgundian Modes
    • Gunnas to Houppelands: A Thousand Years of English Dresses
    • The Handbook of German Dress
      • The Handbook of German Dress - Hair & Headdress 1200s-1400s
    • Heraldic Frocks
    • The Houppelande C. 1355-1450
    • Houppelande Construction
    • The Inner Courtyard of Dar Anahita (Islamic Costume)
    • Gerry and Julie's Landsknecht and Costume Site   updated with name change 10/11/2011
    • Cod. Pal. germ. 848 Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse)   updated with name change 9/11/2011
    • Middle-Eastern Costuming of the 13th Century
    • Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors by Max Tilke
    • Notes on Islamic Clothing
    • Palace Attire and Garments: The Costumes of the Sultans
    • Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV
    • Quick'n'Easy Cauls for 1400s Headresses
    • The Sideless Surcote by Lady Jehanne de Wodeford
    • Spain, the Early Years: Costume of the Visigoths, Mozarabes, and the Northern Christian Kingdoms
    • The Ten-Gore Dress - Cotehardies from Herjolfsnes
    • A very quick overview of one method of making a reticulated headdress
    • Women's Roll Hats
  • Byzantine
    • Byzantine Clothing
      • Basic Byzantine Clothing Patterns
      • A Clothing How-To for Garments of the Byzantine Empire
      • Pattern for a Period Byzantine Caftan
    • Byzantine Men's Tunica
    • Byzantine Women's Stola
  • Celts
    • 16th and 17th Century Quotes Concerning Scottish Men's and Women's Attire
    • Celtic Dress of the Sixteenth Century
    • Celtic Clothing
    • Chapter XVIII - Dress and Personal Adornment - The Person and the Toilet   updated 6/11/2011
    • Chapter XVIII - Dress and Personal Adornment - Dress   updated 6/11/2011
    • The Plaid
    • Scottish Clothing Resources
    • The Shinrone Gown   updated 10/11/2011
    • Irish articles   updated with name change 10/11/2011
  • Elizabethan and Renaissance
    • Anya's Documentation Site
    • The Bad Elizabethan Costume Contest
    • Brocatel "Casula" with silver decoration Spain 1520
    • Celtic Dress of the 16th C
    • Chasuble, Florence, late 15th century
    • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - Part Five: Costumes and Fashions   updated 6/11/2011
    • Choosing Lace for SCA Garb (1500-1600)
    • Costume Picture Gallery: In the Kitchen and Market
    • La Couturière Parisienne: Medieval & Renaissance
    • Dawn Pages -- Costume Patterns
    • Description Of Elizabethan England, 1577 Chapter VII: Of Our Apparel And Attire
    • An Easy Italian Renaissance Gown
    • Elizabethan Costume
      • Custom Corset Pattern Generator
      • Elizabethan Corsets
      • Elizabethan bumrolls
      • The Spanish Farthingale Page
      • Working Woman's Dress in 16th Century Flanders
    • Elizabethan Costume: History and Technique By Margo Anderson
    • Elizabethan Costuming Guide
    • Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes   updated 10/11/2011
    • English Renaissance Clothing   updated 10/11/2011
    • English Sumptuary Law Chart
    • A Fashionable Vocabulary: Clothing and Fabrics in the Elizabethan era
    • A flat cap dyed with madder
    • The Flemish Harvester's Jacket
    • A Flemish Smock - Plainest of the Plain - An Experiment in Plain Sewing
    • Handbuch der Deutschen Tracht (The Handbook of German Dress) 1500s
    • How To Make Italian Ribbon Coifs   updated 6/11/2011
    • How to Make a Renaissance Hat
    • Italian Renaissance Gown Construction
    • The Knitted Scogger & an Experiment in the Medieval Approach to Knitting
    • A Late 15th Century Italian Chemise Pattern   updated 6/11/2011
    • Life on Board the Mary Rose: Clothing
    • A Masque Costume - 1590s French
    • Modesty to Majesty: The Development of the Codpiece
    • Le Poulet Gauche: Clothing
      • The Poulet Gauche Poster Girl -- Diagrams and Tips
    • Short History And Construction of the Spanish Farthingale   updated 6/11/2011
    • Simple Gathered Skirt
    • Straw Hats in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art
    • Sumptuary Laws in Renaissance England   updated 10/11/2011
    • Tudor dress - portfolio of images
    • Tudor Flat Cap
    • The Well Dressed Wench - Medieval and Renaissance
    • Women's Clothing
  • Japanese
    • About Kimono
    • Bibliography of Japanese Costume
    • A History of Kimono
    • JP NET Kimono Hypertext
  • Russian (including Ukrainian, Rus etc.)
    • Medieval Russian Fashion   updated 6/11/2011
      • Medieval Russian Jewelry   updated 6/11/2011
    • Rubakha Pattern
    • Women's Clothing In Early Rus
  • Anglo-Saxon Costume
  • Norse Costume
  • Roman Costume

• Bayeux Tapestry Bibliography

• Embroidery and Weaving Bibliography

• 16th Century Blackwork Embroidery
• The Bayeux Tapestry
• The Bayeux Tapestry
• The Bayeux Tapestry
• The Blackwork Embroidery Archives
• A Blackwork Embroidery Primer
• A Brief Introduction to Medieval Muslim Knitting
• Cats Love Niddy Noddies
• A Collection of Notes on the Historical Aspects of Quilting
• Coronation mantle of Roger II   updated 10/11/2011
• Cotton in the Middle Ages
• Counted Cross Stitch, Needlework, and Stitchery Page
• Coverlet silk polychrome "Punto Fiamma" or "Punto Bargello" Lucca XVI century
• Drop Spindle Page
• Dyes
  • Chris Laning's Orchil Dye

  • Ancient dyes, natural and synthetic
  • Cloth colors and dye (NFPS unofficial)
  • Dye History from 2600 BC to the 20th Century
  • Fabrics and Colours
  • Renaissance: Historical Overview of Dyes, Dyeing, & Fabric Colors   updated 10/11/2011
  • Rowan's Woad Page
  • Supermarket molluscs reveal Roman secret
  • Tyrian purple: history, chemistry and sources
• Embroidery - ca 11th century
• Fabrics and Colours
• Fifteenth-Century Fingerlooping Braid Reproductions
• Fill-in Patterns from Sixteenth Century Blackwork Embroideries
• Finding time to Sew
• Gothic embroidery
• Gothic tapestry, a brief history
• Historical needlework list: To subscribe, send a message to
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• Historical Needlework Resources
• Introduction to Blackwork
• Jacinth's Info Mine: Textile Arts
• Just What Exactly is "Whyt Samyt" Anyway?
• The Lacemaker's Home Page
• Looms (for Warp-weighted looms see below)
  • 13th Century Spanish Loom
  • How to Build a Frame Loom
  • How to Warp Your Frame Loom
• Making a tapestry
• Master Richard Wymarc's Medieval Embroidery Webpage
• Medieval/Renaissance Embroidery Homepage
• Medieval Sourcebook: The Regulations of the Weavers' Gild of Stendal, 1233
• Opus Anglicanum
• Patchwork Cushion
• Phiala's String Pages
• A Collection of Notes on the Historical Aspects of Quilting (PDF)
• Regia Anglorum: Embroidery Techniques
• Stefan's Florilegium: Period and SCA embroidery
• Sheep Breeds
• Silk-Wrapped Wire Circlet   updated 10/11/2011
• Slips: Late 16th/Early 17th Century Embroidery
• Soumak-woven hanging - Skog church, Hälsingland
• Tapestries on the web
• Textile Dictionary
• Textile Resources for the Re-enactor
• Vatican Gallery of Tapestry
• Vatican Museo Sacro II
• Yahoo! - Needlecrafts
• Yahoo! - Textiles

• Bilder eines Gewichtswebstuhles
• Build a warp weighted loom   updated 10/11/2011
• Constructing a Warp-Weighted Loom
• Experiments with a warp-weighted loom
• Mountfitchet Castle
• Reflections of the Conquest   updated 10/11/2011
• Regia Anglorum - Textiles
• Tips for Carving the Parts of the Loom
• Warp-Weighted Loom
• The Warp-Weighted Loom: My Loom
• The Warp-Weighted Loom: Some Sources
• The Warp-Weighted Loom, Worldwide, 7000 BCE
• Warping and weaving on a warp-weighted loom   updated 10/11/2011
• Warping Your Loom
• Weaving Mailing List

• Bibliography of Sources for Information on Period Tablet Weaves
• Braid Weaving
• Card Weaving
• Intermediate Tablet Weaving: Figured Double-Face Weave
• Linda Hendrickson tablet weaving and ply-split braiding
• Phiala's String Pages
  • Basic Tablet Weaving
• ROSCO/Rome Specialty Company
• A Saxon Threaded-In Tablet Weave
• Spinning Jenny's Tablet Weaving Page
• Tablet Weaving Information
• Tablet Weaving
• The Ultimate Tablet Weaving Bibliography
• Viking-Style Tablet Weaving
• Weaver's Hand Tablet Stuff and List

• see specific examples above
• Chapter XVIII - Dress and Personal Adornment - Personal Ornaments   updated 6/11/2011
• Florilegium: ear-rings-msg
• Florilegium: finger-rings-msg   updated 10/11/2011
• Florilegium: Non-Ferrous-bib
• Florilegium: jewelry-msg
• Glasperler som i middelalderen. (Glassbead making in the Middle Ages)
• Greek Jewellery, 5000 years of tradition
• Itinéraire de l'émail champlevé médiéval en Limousin   updated 10/11/2011
• A Jeweler's Bibliography
• Medieval Russian Jewelry   updated 6/11/2011
• Regia Anglorum: Bone and Antler working
• Regia Anglorum: Bronze Working

• Clotilde
• Dharma Trading Company
• Dritz
• EarthGuild (weaving dying etc)
• Farthingales
• G&S DYE - HOME PAGE
• G Street Fabrics
• Halcyon Yarns
• Hard-to-Find Needlework Books
• Kreinik
• McCall's Patterns Online
• Medieval Women's Patterns
• Medieval Patterns for Men
• Milieux: Online Costume Sources/Supplies
• Nancy's Notions
• Oriole Textile Co.
• Renaissance Dancewear
• Richard the Thread (Patterns-period, supplies)
• Simplicity Costume
• Jas. Townsend & Son, Sutlers: Weaving and Sewing Supplies
• The Sewing Place
• The Woolery
• Zoodads Fabrics Page

Last updated 10/11/2011.