La cotte simple - Late medieval fashion redressed

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ResourcesSite MapOctober 24, 2020You are here: Home / HomeEmbroidery on medieval clothing and accessoriesPosted by Tasha Kelly on July 18, 2019 Leave a CommentIn February 2019 I traveled to Dearborn, Michigan where I shared a slide presentation on medieval embroidery for clothing and accessories. This was the yearly chapter meeting for La Compagnia della Rose nel Sole, a re-enactment company portraying English, French, and Italian mercenaries in Italy in the late 14th century. We get together in February [ ]Filed Under: embroidery | Tagged: Tagged With: embroideryHiking the Camino Primitivo, a Medieval ImmersionPosted by Tasha Kelly on June 15, 2018 7 CommentsMemories and Mind Expansion I travel for two reasons the memories I carry with me afterwards and the expansion of my understanding of the world. Trips I took decades ago still loom in my consciousness; sharp, fresh moments of joy and profound satisfaction. I remember visiting the pueblos carved into the side of mesas [ ]Filed Under: Medieval travel | Tagged: Tagged With: Camino, field-testing, Spain, travelFace-Framing Braids—Recreating a 14th-Century HairstylePosted by Tasha Kelly on February 15, 2018 6 CommentsI ve long been fascinated with the braided hair styles seen on women in Western European figural art of the mid-to-late 14th century—particularly in French works. To my modern eyes, women did charming and oddball things with their hair. The undeniable outlandishness of these braids make them fun to recreate. I am especially enamored of the [ ]Filed Under: Hairstyles | Tagged: Tagged With: braids, hair, tutorialColoring the Fencing Master in the Getty Fiore s Segno della SpadaPosted by Tasha Kelly on March 13, 2017 3 CommentsOr, How Coloring Can Teach You More About Medieval Clothing This story begins because my husband, Gregory Mele, owns a martial arts studio called Forteza Fitness Martial Arts in Chicago. It serves as the home of his first love, the Chicago Swordplay Guild, which he co-founded with like-minded others in 1999. As the Dean of the [ ]Filed Under: manuscript interpretation | Tagged: Tagged With: bag sleeves, chaperon, early 15th century clothing, Fiore, fur, garnache, Getty manuscript, Italy, manuscript interpretationCharles VI Coat Armour Repro, Part 4: Sewing It All TogetherPosted by Tasha Kelly on February 28, 2017 4 CommentsThis is the fourth in a series of blog posts describing the process I undertook to recreate the child-sized coat armour on display at the Musée des beaux arts in Chartres, France. This installment covers the sewing techniques used in attaching all the pieces and finishing all the edges. You can find the earlier installments [ ]Filed Under: pourpoint of Charles VI | Tagged: Tagged With: 14th century tailoring, armour, buttonholes, buttons, coat-armour, construction, extant clothing, extant medieval garments, medieval martial garments, my sewing, padding, pourpoint of Charles VI, quiltingCharles VI Coat Armour Repro, Part 3: Padding and Quilting on a FramePosted by Tasha Kelly on February 20, 2017 4 CommentsThis is the third in a series of blog posts describing the process I undertook to recreate the child-sized coat armour on display at the Musée des beaux arts in Chartres, France. The prior installments can be found here: Dyeing an Imperfect Lampas Recreating the Pattern The truly laborious stage was upon me now. I had [ ]Filed Under: pourpoint of Charles VI | Tagged: Tagged With: 14th century tailoring, armour, coat-armour, construction, extant clothing, extant medieval garments, medieval martial garments, my sewing, padding, pourpoint of Charles VI, quiltingCharles VI Coat Armour Repro, Part 2: Drafting the PatternPosted by Tasha Kelly on February 13, 2017 Leave a CommentThis is the second in a series of blog posts describing the process I undertook to recreate the child-sized coat armour on display at the Musée des beaux arts in Chartres, France. I ll be covering the process of drafting the pattern. Find the first part here: Dyeing an Imperfect Lampas. When I examined the coat [ ]Filed Under: pourpoint of Charles VI | Tagged: Tagged With: 14th century tailoring, armour, bag sleeves, buttonholes, coat-armour, construction, extant clothing, extant medieval garments, medieval martial garments, pattern drafting, pourpoint, pourpoint of Charles VI, quilting, tailoringCharles VI Coat Armour Repro, Part 1: Dyeing An Imperfect LampasPosted by Tasha Kelly on February 7, 2017 Leave a CommentThis is the first in a series of blog posts describing the process I undertook to recreate the child-sized coat armour on display at the Musée des beaux arts in Chartres, France. This post covers the challenge of finding a proper silk lampas fabric to match the look and feel of the original. Though this re-creation [ ]Filed Under: pourpoint of Charles VI | Tagged: Tagged With: 14th century tailoring, coat-armour, construction, extant clothing, extant medieval garments, medieval martial garments, pourpoint, pourpoint of Charles VIA fur primer for 14th and 15th century European clothingPosted by Tasha Kelly on November 14, 2016 2 CommentsI wrote an article on recognizing fur in period figural imagery that kind of ate my brain. I ve been working on this topic for months. The more I read and reviewed imagery, the more rabbit holes I found myself going down, zero pun intended. But now finally it s in a state where I feel comfortable sharing [ ]Filed Under: article | Tagged: Tagged With: early 15th century clothing, fur, medieval martial garments, new featureThe Royal Grave Clothing of 14th Century BohemiaPosted by Tasha Kelly on September 4, 2016 5 Comments Or: The Bonanza I Found When I Went Looking for the Houppelande of John of Görlitz (Jan Zhořelecký) As part of my husband s and my honeymoon trip to Prague, we intended to check off a modest bucket list item, which was to see the extant 14th century houppelande on display in Prague Castle. I also [ ]Filed Under: garments | Tagged: Tagged With: 14th century tailoring, extant clothing, grave clothing, houppelande, Jan Zhořelecký, John of GörlitzNext Page Subscribe

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Late Medieval Fashion Redressed. Learn about medieval tailoring techniques of the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe. Patterning, cutting, sewing, quilting, making buttons, buttonholes, and eyelets. From tunics to cotehardies, from shirts to pourpoints, from chemises to dresses.

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