Costume links

Hats and headresses

• Hatter og hodeplagg (Norwegian)
• How to wear a veil (1000-1300)
• Easy Men's Hats - (1200-1470s)
• Coifs (1200 onwards)
• Crespinettes (1325-1375)
• Women's Rolled (stuffed) Hats (1390-1470)
• Men's Rolled (stuffed) Hats (1390-1470)
• A 13th Century hat
• How to be a Hoodlum (1300-1470)
• How to Upbraid Your Friends
• Quick 'n' Easy Cauls (1300-1470)
• Making hairnets (14th C)
• Wire circlet (1300s)
• Middle-class Horny Hat (ca 1435)
  
  
• Complex Women's Hats (1400-1470):
  • How to make a Reticulated Headdress
  • My second fancy wireframe; heart-shaped.
  • Arnolfini headdress, Truncated-cone henins, butterfly henins
  • Butterfly Hat construction basics
  • The Little Black Band A theory on how to keep the hat attached
  • Straw, and other odd support materials, in the service of Silly Hats
    
    
• Chaperons and how to make them
• A medieval Cowl
• Cavalier's Hat
• Tudor Flat Cap

Embroidery and decoration

• Tablet Weaving
  • The Ancient Craft of Tablet Weaving - Getting started
  • Intermediate Tablet Weaving: Figured Double-Face Weave
  • Tablet weaving gallery
  • The Partly-Completed Tablet Weaving from the Oseberg Ship Burial
  • A Brocaded Band from the Oseberg Ship Burial
  • Brocaded Tablet Weaving
  • Phiala's string pages
• Embroidery
  • Archaelogical sewing (different stich types)
  • Dark Age Stitch Types
  • Embroidery from the Tenth Century Viking Grave at Mammen Denmark
  • A Stitch out of time
  • Medieval Embroidery - Some Charted Examples
  • The Blackwork Embroidery Archives
    
    
• Viking art styles
• Viking Ornamentation Styles
• How to Draw Your Own Celtic Knots
• Folly Bells: jingle all the way (14 and 15 C)
• The Lacemaker homepage
• Dye recipies from the Innsbruck Manuscript (1300) and other original dye receipts
• The Woad Page