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Free Herald!
Renaissance Dress in Italy 1400-1500 by Jacqueline Herald is available to borrow on archive.org. This highly regarded English language text on Italian renaissance clothing has been out of print for about 40 years and has a market price of around 500 USD, second hand, at time of posting. The catch is that only one of…
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Clothing for an Italian woman in the 1460’s
I need to make a wardrobe of clothing for an Italian woman in the 1460’s. Ideally from one region of Italy, given the variety of fashion, but I will have to start where I can. Overview As ever, FAMALEONIS has a great overview article on women’s clothing in this period here Italian Fashion in the…
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Hose fragment from Lengberg Castle
During this livestream Q&A, Beatrix Nutz briefly presents a fragment of hose at around 1:07:00. The fragment is thought to be from a pair of hose, based on long matching fragments and an educated guess by the researchers. The piece is a rectangle composed of a straight grain strip and a bias grain strip, sewn…
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Saint Roch – Fashion Icon
In the Wallace Collection there is a painting depicting Saint Roch by Carlo Crivelli c1480 with a lot of excellent clothing details. My best educated guesses about this clothing follow, along with some questions that occur to me. View Saint Roch by Carlo Crivelli in the Wallace Live Online Collection or you’ll have no idea…
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Online Manuscripts Handy for Call to Arms 1470
Before the printing press, a written work had to be duplicated by hand writing. Every copy of every medieval work has its own manuscript designation, so while the Tacuinum Sanitatis is a popular work through the medieval period, every surviving copy has a designation assigned by the library that conserves it. These designations can change…
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1470 Italian clothing link dump
On my journey to dress myself for Call To Arms Aus. 1470, my ‘research’ has so far mostly been composed of a massive links dump. These links are to resources that have helped me work out what an Italian man of common status would wear in service to a mercenary company. Until I can sort…
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