Costume & Clothing

Devoted to learning and teaching about the costuming arts. We sponsor classes, competitions and displays throughout Atlantia, and engage in discussions on the finer points of costuming.

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The Medieval Dress and Textile Society was founded in 1991 to bring together those with a serious interest in the subject. Historians of dress and textiles already have their own channels of communication through a number of specific groups but their studies now range widely in many fields: art and economic history, metropolitan and industrial studies, politics, archaeology, medieval literature, arms and armour, or women's history, for instance. At the same time a far greater interest in many aspects of the subject - style and status, sumptuary legislation, patronage, industrial practices, domestic furnishings - is being demonstrated by historians, and conservators.

A searchable catalog of surviving garments from Europe and the Mediterranean from the dawn of time up through approximately 1500.

One clothing element that was extremely common in the middle ages for people of all but the poorest classes was the use of fur. In many wills, fur-lined garments or linings outnumber those without fur. This presentati on covers a bit of the history, and how we can use fur in our clothing, using possibly period techniques . Many of the techniques used in this presentati on can be done with either hand or machine sewing, and can also be used with a high quality faux fur.