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Costuming and Research Links

• Le Poulet Gauche.  A great site regarding life in a tavern in 16th Century France.

• Historic Cities.  A most excellent site, which features the Civitatis Orbis Terrarum, the great city atlas, edited in 1572 by Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg.  This work includes bird-eye views and map views of cities from all over the world, many of them with miniatures of people attired in the costume of their region.

•  William Harrison's Description of Elizabethan England 

• Ninya Mikhaila  Historical Costumier. One of the people who sets the standard, and home of the Tudor Tailor as well.

• Extreme Costuming  Mistress Isobel Beddingfield's excellent webpage.  Great articles, samples of her absolutely stunning work, and headquarters of the Attack Laurel Academy.

• The Elizabethan Costuming Page Drea Leed's mega-costuming webpage.

• Kate's Corner Cathy Snell's page. An excellent resource.  From cloth and wrapped buttons to gloves to haberdashery.  Worth visiting.

• Melanie Schuessler's Costuming and Research Webpage.

• Elizabethan Mafia Roslind Delamere's Costuming and Fencing Page.

• A Festive Attyre  Jen Thompson's nifty costuming page.

• Alina's Wardrobe  Alina Silverthorne's wonderful page.  Neat articles on costuming, 16th C. medicine, and other stuff.

• The Realm of Venus The Venetian costuming page of Donna Bella Lucia da Verona.  Other than French, Italian costuming is my other passion.

• La Saya Española Images and Information concerning late 16th Century Spanish Court dress for women

• Genevieve d'Aquitaine's webpage.  Nifty information on various subjects.  Her Florentine and Roman sections, are particularly good.

• Mesterinde Karen Larsdatter  Mistress Karen's resource webpage.  All sorts of goodies, including the list of New Year's Gifts to Queen Elizabeth I from the Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth.

• An Elizabethan Shirt Pattern  By Mistress Grace Gamble. The best, most period, and most user-friendly shirt/chemise pattern out there, IMHO.

•  Lady Arrienne Lenorra Ashford:  Marie Shorn's excellent page on needle lace.

• In Prayse of the Needle  Jane Stockton's embroidery page.

• Instructions for Cloth Buttons  by Mistress Dunstana Talana the Violet.

•  Notes on Gloves and Glovemaking in the 16th Century An online article from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

•  Violante's Glove Diary  Doña Violante de San Sebastian made a beautiful glove for me, on occasion of my elevation to the Order of the Laurel.  It is a great resource, and a labor of glove.

• The Glove Website  Francesca V. Havas ubercool glove page.  Lots of good information.

•  Living Dolls by Yazana C. Croizat, a terrific article on Renaissance dolls, as published in Renaissance Quarterly, the Johns Hopkins University renaissance studies magazine. Here is also the version on PDF format.

My Favorite Merchants

• The Tudor Tailor  Home of the most excellent book "The Tudor Tailor."  They have also started selling a very good line of patterns, and other goodies worth looking at. 
• The Spanish Peacock  Probably the finest weaving, bobbin-lace and embroidery supplies. (Lucets, spindles, bobbins, etc.)
• Ironwood Pottery  Fine, museum quality pottery replicas.  This is a dangerous and addictive merchant!
• Hedgehog Handworks  Nifty supplies for embroiderers and costumers.
• Halcyon Yarn.  An excellent source of yarn and embroidery silks.  Their search engine is a bit confusing.  Go to "Yarn" and then click the "Yarn by Weight, Thickness" link.  It's the easiest way to find your embroidery silks.
• Wooden Hamlet  Buttons, ribbons, tapes and braids, all sorts of nifty stuff.
• Reconstructing History Patterns, fabric, notions, all sorts of assorted stuff and information.  Really cool.
• BSharp Fabrics Lots of notions, particularly machine-made bobbin lace.  It is a decent substitute if you are not a lacemaker and you are not making your own.
• Fabrics Store.com  Absolutely great source for linen at reasonable prices.
• Fabric.com  Another great source for linen, silk, wool, and other reasonably priced, good quality fabrics.
• B. Black and Sons  Great source for wool at reasonable prices.
• Denver Fabrics  NOTE:  The original Denver Fabrics sold its online store to Fashion Fabrics Club.  They still carry silk, wool and linen, and you can still score good deals, but their stock is more similar to FFC than the old DF.
• Barjavel Designs  Duchess Simone's site.  Excellent source for fabric and other goodies.
• Silk Connection  Best prices on silk, although most of it you have to dye yourself.
• Dirty Billy's Hats Really fine reproductions of 16th Century hats.
• Ursula's Alcove. Spinning, knitting and weaving supplies. Check out her hats under the "Handwoven" section. Some of them work as tall hats. 
• The Practical Goose Thrum caps, knitted goods, footwear and other items.  The page is under construction, but the contact information is up.
•  Armlann Custom made footwear. Shoes, boots, you name it.  Good quality for the price.
•  Raystown Forge Footwear.  Although they specialize on 18th Century accoutrements, their "Anna" lady's shoe is reasonably appropriate for dressier 16th Century footwear.
•  Boots by Bohemond Footwear.  Latchet shoes in the Mary Rose style.

Other Links of Interest

• My Projects Gallery at Smugmug:  Sometimes, I just post my finished projects there before I post them to the Webpage.  It's faster!
• My Live Journal  All sorts of musings.  Read it at your own peril.
• House Fallen From Grace The SCA Household to which I belong.
• The Barony of Ponte Alto The local SCA group in which I play.
• The Kingdom of Atlantia The SCA group in which the Barony of Ponte Alto belongs to.
• The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) The historical international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe to which I belong.

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