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Clothing and Costume Links

  • Saint Anne's Guild of Clothiers

    • General Surveys and Articles

  • Analysing a Style
  • Clothing and Hair Styles of the Bog People
  • Clothing - Frequently Asked Questions
  • The Costume Page
  • The Costumer's Manifesto: Costume History
  • Costuming for Larger Figures
  • Costuming For the Timid, the Bold and the In-Between or Making the Best of Who You Want To Be
  • Dark Age Stitch Types
  • Designing the Perfect Gown: From Idea to Reality
  • Gallery of English Garb
  • European Dark Ages Dress
  • Gunnas to Houppelands
  • Handsewing
  • Historical Costume Bulletin Board
  • Historical Costuming FAQ
  • Historic Costume Research
  • The History of Costume by Braun & Schneider
  • A Theory of Costume
  • Timeline of Costume History
  • The Timeline of Fashion
  • Wardrobes of the Knowne World Unlock'd
  • A Word on Closures
  • Working With Fur: Pseudo and Otherwise

    Clothing Bibliographies

  • Annotated Bibliography
  • An Annotated Bibliography of the Mongol Empire
  • Bibliography of 17th Century Costume
  • Bibliography of Sources for the Construction of Viking Garments
  • Byzantine Bibliography
  • Clothing Bibliography
  • Costuming Bibliography
  • Near and Middle Eastern Costume Bibliography

    Online "Fashion Shows"

  • Fashion through the Ages
  • Online Costume Ball '98
  • Online Costume Ball '99
  • Pennsic XXVI Costume Exposition (1997)
  • Pennsic XXVII Costume Exposition (1998)
  • St Valentine's Day XXV Costume Show (1997)
  • St Valentine's Day XXVI Costume Show (1998)

    Costuming for Beginners

  • Alterations for SCA Sewers
  • Dawn's Costume Patterns: Doublet, Bodice (and how to fit a bodice), Tunic, Gathered Skirt, Drawstring Breeches, Cloak, Tabard, Shirt, Chemise, Fitted Breeches, Hood, Pouch, Ruff, Bum Roll, Soft Cap
  • The Draper's Workshop
  • Garb Basics
  • Garb Guide
  • Getting Started With Garb in the SCA
  • Introduction to Garb
  • Making a Keyhole Neckline
  • Modern Patterns for Recreationist Use
  • Practical Worksheet for Tunic Construction
  • The Quick Costume Guide
  • A Quick Reference Guide for Beginner/Cost Effective Garments
  • Sewing Your Own Costume
  • The T-Tunic
  • Tunic and Pants
  • What Do I Wear?
  • What Should I Wear?
  • What to Wear

    Extant Period Clothing

  • Extant Clothing of the Middle Ages
  • Kjortel (Norwegian)
  • The Moy Gown - An Irish Medieval Gown
  • Some Clothing of the Middle Ages

    Analyzing or Adapting Modern Patterns

  • Adapting Modern Patterns for Use as SCA Garb
  • Alterations for SCA Sewers
  • Commercial Costume Patterns
  • The Great Pattern Review
  • Modern Patterns for Recreationist Use
  • Review: Simplicity Patterns' New Elizabethan Gown

    Costuming for Children

    Early Periods

  • Anglo-Saxon and Viking Works of the Needle: Some Artistic Currents in Cross-Cultural Exchange
  • Basic Romano-British Costume
  • The Bronze Age String Skirt
  • Clothed Seemly and Proper: The Saxons
  • Frankish Costume
  • Researching Early Period Costume
  • Reproduction of Anglian Dress
  • Timeline of Costume History: Carolinian Europe to the First Millenium
  • Tube Dress/Peplos

    Eleventh Century

  • Anglo Saxon Women's Clothing for the 11th Century
  • Clothes Patterns
  • Eleventh Century Anglo Saxon Men's Garb

    Twelfth Century

  • About 12th Century Clothing
  • Antiochene Poulaines
  • Chausses and Braies: Garments for the Medieval Leg
  • Costume and Dress in the Late 12th Century
  • The History of Fashion and Dress: Byzantium and Early Medieval Europe
  • A Study of 12th and 13th Century Clothing and More 12th and 13th Century Clothing and Accessories

    Thirteenth Century

  • A Brief Critical Look at Women's Thirteenth Century Dress
  • Chausses and Braies: Garments for the Medieval Leg
  • Male Clothing and Knightly Armour of the 1250's
  • Medieval Underwear
  • Middle-Eastern Costuming of the 13th Century
  • A Study of 12th and 13th Century Clothing and More 12th and 13th Century Clothing and Accessories
  • Thirteenth Century Andalusian Costume
  • 13th Century Belt and Pouch and photo
  • Timeline of Costume History: 13th Century Europe

    Fourteenth Century

  • Black Velvet Cotehardie
  • Chausses and Braies: Garments for the Medieval Leg
  • Clothing in 1302 in Flanders
  • The Cotehardie Homepage
  • Cotehardie: Seam View by Bronach Nĺlbrjótr
  • Eibhlin's Hats of the 14th and 15th centuries
  • The History of Fashion and Dress: Late Medieval Europe & The Early Italian Renaissance
  • The Houppelande C. 1355-1450
  • Kirtles
  • Kjortel (Norwegian)
  • The Moy Gown -- An Irish Medieval Gown
  • A Reconstruction of a Garment from the Moy Bog, Co. Clare, Ireland
  • Summary of Women's Cotehardies
  • The Ten-Gore Dress: Cotehardies from Herjolfsnes
  • Timeline of Costume History: 14th Century Europe

    Fifteenth Century

  • Drafting a Houppelande Pattern
  • Early 15th century Houppelande
  • Eibhlin's Hats of the 14th and 15th centuries
  • Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Headdress: A Review of Literature
  • 15th Century Costume in Contemporary Paintings: Part 1 (1400-1450) and Part 2 (1450-1499)
  • 15th Century Female Flemish Dress: A Portfolio of Images
  • Fifteenth Century Visual Sources and Costume Research: An Analysis
  • Genevieve as Venus at the Judgment of Paris Pas d'Armes
  • The Arnolfini Portrait
  • The History of Fashion and Dress: Late Medieval Europe & The Early Italian Renaissance
  • Houppelande Construction
  • The Houpelande Homepage
  • The Houppelande C. 1355-1450
  • Fifteenth-Century Men's "Acorn" Caps (and How to Knit One)
  • Men's and Women's Work Clothing: A Portfolio of Images
  • Middle Class Italian Renaissance Gown, Dated 1460 to 1485
  • Relative Frequency of Headdresses by Type Found in a Sample of Visual Sources, 1400-1519
  • A Theory on Construction of the Houppelande
  • Timeline of Costume History: 15th Century Northern Europe and 15th Century Southern Europe
  • Understanding Houpelande and Burgundian Clothing Construction (PDF)
  • Variations in Fifteenth-Century Style: The Marie de Bourgogne Gown

    Sixteenth Century

  • Anya's Documentation Site
  • Choosing Lace for SCA Garb (1500-1600)
  • Clothing from the Mary Rose
  • Drafting a Basic Bodice Pattern
  • Dress of the 16th and 17th Centuries at the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Elizabethan Costume: History and Technique
  • Elizabethan Costumes by Margo Anderson
  • The Elizabethan Costuming Page (includes Bumrolls, Chemises, Corsets, Farthingales, and Petticoats)
  • Elizabethan Upper Middle Class Dress
  • Elizabethan Costume
  • Elizabethan Costume Gallery: A Tour of 16th Century Costume
  • The Elizabethan Practical Companion
  • English Renaissance Clothing
  • Extant Elizabethan Costumes
  • A Fashionable Vocabulary: Clothing and Fabrics in the Elizabethan era
  • Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Headdress: A Review of Literature
  • Habitus praecipuorum populorum tam virorum quam foeminarum singulari arte depicti
  • Hans Weigel's Book of Costume, 1577
  • The History of Fashion and Dress: 16th Century Europe
  • How Much Is Enough?: Yardages Used in Late 16th Century Women's Clothing
  • How to Make a Renaissance Hat
  • Im Frauwenzimmer Wirt vermeldt von allerly schönen Kleidungen
  • Late 16th and Early 17th Century Clothing for the Middle and Lower Classes
  • Le Poulet Gauche Clothing and Costume Picture Gallery
  • Men's and Women's Work Clothing: A Portfolio of Images
  • A Milanese Tailor's Handbook
  • Pattern for a 16th Century English Slouch Hat
  • Recommended Books: 16th and 17th Century Costume
  • Re-creation of the Gown of Eleonora di Toledo
  • Renaissance Costume and Jewelry
  • Renaissance Middle-Class Costume
  • Renaissance Patterns for Men
  • Renaissance Women's Headdress
  • Short History And Construction of the Spanish Farthingale
  • 16th and 17th Century Clothing: An Overview
  • 16th Century Costume in Contemporary Paintings: Part 1 (1500-1530), Part 2 (1530-1550), and Part 3 (1550-1599)
  • Sumptuary Laws in Tudor England: Is Your Garb Legal?
  • Timeline of Costume History: Early 16th Century Europe (1500-1535), Mid 16th Century Europe (1535-1570), and Late 16th Century Europe (1570-1600)
  • sempstress.com: Articles, and Instructions
  • Tudor & Elizabethan Portraits
  • Tudor Costume
  • Tudor Dress: Portfolio of Images
  • Working Women's Dress in 16th Century Flanders

    Seventeenth Century

  • Baroque Costumes
  • Bibliography of 17th Century Costume
  • Dress of the 16th and 17th Centuries at the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Early 17th Century Europe (1600-1630ce), Mid 17th Century Europe (1630 to 1665ce), and Late 17th Century Europe (1665 to 1700ce)
  • Goodwife Pages for 17th Century Reenactors
  • The History of Fashion and Dress: 17th Century Europe
  • Jacobean Fashion Show
  • Marquis de Kipár: Baroque Costumes
  • 17th Century Baroque Fashion, 1600-1627
  • 17th Century Fashion Links
  • Timeline of Costume History: Early 17th Century Europe (1600-1630) and Mid 17th Century Europe (1630-1665)
  • 16th and 17th Century Clothing: An Overview

    Anglo-Saxon

  • Anglo-Saxon and Viking Works of the Needle: Some Artistic Currents in Cross-Cultural Exchange
  • Anglo-Saxon Clothing and Appearance
  • Anglo Saxon Women's Clothing for the 11th Century
  • Clothing and Appearance of the Early Christian Anglo-Saxons
  • Clothing and Appearance of the Pagan Anglo-Saxons
  • Dark Age Stitch Types
  • 5th Century Anglian Dress
  • Simple Saxon Cloak, Trousers, and Tunic

    Burgundian

  • Understanding Houpelande and Burgundian Clothing Construction (PDF)

    Byzantine

  • The Basics of Byzantine Dress c. 1000 A.D.
  • Byzantine Clothing
  • Byzantine Costume Links
  • Byzantine Costume Links
  • Byzantium: Women's Dress and Men's Dress
  • Early Christian and Byzantine Costume
  • The History of Fashion and Dress: Byzantium and Early Medieval Europe
  • Timeline of Costume History: Byzantium

    Celtic, Irish, and Scottish

  • Arisaid: Highland Women's Dress
  • The Belted Plaid
  • Belted Plaid Demo
  • A Brief Essay on Leinte
  • Celtic Clothing
  • Celtic Costume Image Database
  • Celtic Dress of the Sixteenth Century
  • Celtic Garb for Men and Women
  • Celtic Leine
  • Celtic/Scots Costume Links
  • Clothing of the Ancient Celts
  • Clothing in the Scottish Highlands, 1100 - 1700 CE
  • Couched Cording on "Irish" Sleeves by Torquil McGillarrey
  • Dress in Ancient Ireland
  • Early Irish Costume
  • The Early History of the Kilt
  • The Evolution of the Kilt
  • A 4-Part Forepart
  • The Great Kilt or Belted Plaid: How to Wear and Wrap It
  • The Great Kilt War
  • How to Wear the Belted Plaid
  • How to Wrap and Wear a Great Kilt
  • Ionar
  • Ireland, ca. 5th - 10th c. CE
  • The Kilcommon Costume
  • The Kilt and the Tartan - What Is Period?
  • The Leine
  • Leine Pattern
  • Leinte of early medieval Ireland
  • Love and Care of the Great Kilt
  • Making the Irish Leine: Outline, Pictures, and Patterns
  • Men's Highland Attire from the Middle Ages to the 18th century
  • Mistress Annastassja Diaz de Leon's Irish Dress
  • A Modern Approach to Making a "Great Kilt"
  • The Moy Bog Dress
  • The Moy Gown -- An Irish Medieval Gown
  • Myths and Tips of Celtic Costuming
  • The Plaid
  • The Plaid by Sir Alastair Saunders
  • The Quick and Dirty "Great Kilt"
  • The Rogart Shirt
  • The Saffron Shirt: Irish/Scots Léine
  • Scottish Men's and Women's Clothing
  • The Shinrone Gown, An Irish Dress from the Elizabethan Age
  • 16th and 17th Century Quotes Concerning Scottish Men's and Women's Attire
  • Some Ways to Wear an Erasaid
  • Tartan History and Terminology
  • To Dye a Saffron Shirt
  • Woman's Léine

    Flemish

  • Constructing a 16th century Flemish Outfit
  • 15th Century Female Flemish Dress: A Portfolio of Images
  • Recreations of Flemish Dress
  • Working Womens' Dress in 16th Century Flanders

    German

  • Clothing of Mary of Hapsburg and Louis of Hungary
  • German Gown - 1503
  • German Women's Costume
  • Habitus praecipuorum populorum tam virorum quam foeminarum singulari arte depicti
  • The Handbook of German Dress
  • Hans Weigel's Book of Costume, 1577
  • Im Frauwenzimmer Wirt vermeldt von allerly schönen Kleidungen
  • Kleidung im Mittelalter (German)
  • Landsknecht.com
  • Landsknechts and Costume
  • Landsknecht, 1535
  • The Real Landsknecht Homepage
  • Das Schloß von Ravensburg
  • Women's Costume in Bohemia and Saxony - 1490 to 1580
  • Woodcuts of Landsknecht Dress

    Hungarian/Magyar

  • Clothes & Dress in medieval Hungarian Heritage
  • Clothing of Mary of Hapsburg and Louis of Hungary
  • Historic Hungarian Costumes
  • Hungarian Folk Costumes (most noted as dating to the 9th century)
  • Images from: A Magyaros Ízlés

    Gypsy/Romani

  • 15th and 16th Century Gypsy Women's Costume

    Indian

  • Choli Pattern
  • History of Indian Fashion
  • How To Wear A Sari
  • Indian Saris
  • Saree: An Overview and Design & Styles
  • The Sari: In All Its Incarnations
  • The Sari in Fashion: Five Thousand Years

    Italian

  • Early Italian and High Renaissance Costume
  • Early 16th Century Italian Costume (1490-1530): A Portfolio of Images
  • 1560's Late-Italian Renaissance Gown
  • The History of Fashion and Dress: Late Medieval Europe & The Early Italian Renaissance
  • How To Make Italian Ribbon Coifs
  • Italian Renaissance Costumes (for women)
  • Italian Renaissance Dress
  • Italian Renaissance: 1420-1520
  • Italian Renaissance Gown Construction
  • Italian Renaissance Portraits for Costume Study
  • A Late 15th Century Italian Chemise Pattern
  • Men's Italian Renaissance Red Hats
  • Middle Class Italian Renaissance Gown, Dated 1460 to 1485
  • Mid-Italian Renaissance Female Costume
  • A Milanese Tailor's Handbook
  • Portrait of a Lady with a Puppy (1530)
  • Renaissance Costumes
  • "Sleeve Lorraine"
  • A Tangled Weaving: The Social Status of Clothing in Early Modern Venice
  • Vecellio's "Habits Ancient and Modern of the Diverse Parts of the World," 1590

    Japanese

  • About Kimono
  • A History of Kimono
  • Introduction to Japanese Garb, or Recognizing the Well-Dressed Samurai
  • Japanese Costume Links
  • Japanese Garb
  • Japanese Garb Patterns
  • Japanese Mons
  • JP NET Kimono Hypertext
  • The Juni-hitoe
  • Lady Fujiwara's Wardrobe Unlock'd
  • The Long-Sleeved People: Clothing of the Heian Period
  • Making a Kimono and Making an Obi
  • A Quick History of Japanese Clothing

    Korean

  • Korean Traditional Dress

    Middle Eastern

  • Costume Guidelines (16th century Turkish)
  • Costumes for Various Styles of Oriental Dance
  • Egyptian horseman's outfit, 6th century
  • Costume for A 15th Century Ghwazee Wedding Dance
  • The Folk Dress/Beledi Dress
  • Harem Pants
  • How to Hijab: Your Guide to the Islamic Dress Code
  • Islamic Clothing, Jewelry, and Make-Up
  • Islamic Clothing - Free Patterns
  • The Islamic Dress Code
  • Maghribi Women's Costume
  • Medieval Middle Eastern Garb: Basic Garments Throughout the East with Pictures and Patterns
  • Middle Eastern Costume Links
  • Middle-Eastern Costuming of 13th Century (or here)
  • Muslim Sexual Modesty
  • Near and Middle Eastern Costume Sites Worth Seeing
  • Near and Middle Eastern Costume Bibliography
  • Notes on Clothing from Social Life Under the Abbasids
  • Notes on Islamic Clothing
  • Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors
  • Palace Attire and Garments: The Costumes of the Sultans
  • Persian Clothing, with some references to other Middle Eastern styles
  • A Quick Guide to Period Garb for a Turkish Lady
  • Seljuk and Ottoman Periods: Women's Clothing
  • Seljuk Female Costume Patterns and Seljuk Male Costume Patterns
  • 6th and 7th Century Sasanian (Persian) Clothing
  • 16th Century Persian Women's Clothing
  • The Tarpus: A Very Brief View of the Turkish Hat with two pictures: 1 and 2
  • Turkestani Coat
  • A Turkish Lady's Ensemble with five images: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

    Mongolian

  • Buryat Traditional Clothing
  • Introduction to the Art of Mongolia
  • Mongolian Arms, Armor and Garb
  • The Mongols: Basic Caftan, Sleeveless Caftan, Woman's Under-Caftan, More Caftan Information, and Buttons and Buttonholes
  • Narantsetseg's Mongolian Pages: Mongolian Dress, Mongolian Hats, and Bibliography

    Polish

  • Polish Costuming Resource

    Russian

  • Dress Among the Rus
  • Medieval Russia - Clothing
  • Patterns and Instructions for Medieval Russian Costumes
  • Rus Female Costume and Rus Male Costume
  • Russian and Soviet Costume Links
  • Russian Costume in the 16th and 17th centuries
  • Russian Costume Links
  • Russian Costuming: Medieval and Otherwise
  • Russian Garb: Basic Overview, The Quick and Dirty Way
  • The Russian Sarafan
  • Women's Clothing in Kievan Rus

    Spanish

  • Clothing of the Jews in Medieval Spain
  • Coronation of Timothy and Gabrielle
  • Manuscript pages from Diego de Freyle, 1588
  • Spain, the Early Years: Costume of the Visigoths, Mozarabes, and the Northern Christian Kingdoms
  • Thirteenth Century Andalusian Costume

    Viking

  • An Archaeological Guide to Viking Men's Clothing
  • Anglo-Saxon and Viking Works of the Needle: Some Artistic Currents in Cross-Cultural Exchange
  • Bibliography of Sources for the Construction of Viking Garments
  • Book Review: The Viking
  • "But That's How They Look in the Book!": Viking Women's Garb in Art and Archaeology
  • Clothing and Fabric Production
  • Dark Age Colours
  • Dark Age Stitch Types
  • An 11th Century Linen Shirt from Viborg with seam treatments
  • Female Viking Costume
  • Female Viking Dress
  • Molly's Viking Dress
  • A new theory on the costumes of the Oseberg Queen and her attendant
  • Norse Costume Bibliography
  • A Quick and Dirty Look at Viking Women's Garb in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
  • Reconstructed 10th Century Danish Apron Dress
  • Reconstructing the Costume of the Viking Age
  • Reconstructing Female Costume of the Viking Age
  • Rus Trader Costume
  • Tunic and Pants
  • The Viking Apron-Dress and The Viking Apron-Dress: A New Reconstruction
  • Viking Clothes
  • Viking Clothing
  • Viking Costume Links
  • Viking Cuffs, Hlad and Cloak
  • Viking Embroidery
  • The Viking Experience: Basic Costume
  • Viking Garb Class Notes
  • Viking Man's Winter Jacket and Hat
  • Viking Resources for the Re-enactor
  • Viking Tunic Construction
  • Viking Women's Apron Dress
  • What did Viking women wear?

    Bags, Pouches, and Purses

  • Drawstring Bag (with lining)
  • Historical Illustrations of 18 Pilgrim's Scrips (pouches) and easy how-to instructions
  • How to make a replica of the 13th Century Satchel, From the Maciejowsky Bible, 1250 A.D.
  • Late 13th-Early 14th Century Drawstring Pouch
  • A Pilgrim's Alms Satchel: A Pattern and Method of Construction
  • Pouches and Purses
  • Purse and Pincushion
  • 13th Century Belt and Pouch and photo
  • Viking Leatherwork

    Bodices and Corsets

  • Clothing Construction in the Period Style: Corsets
  • Custom Corset Pattern Generator
  • Drafting a Basic Bodice Pattern
  • The Effigy Corset: A New Look at Elizabethan Corsetry
  • How to Fit a Bodice
  • How to Make Self-Supporting Bodices
  • Renaissance Clothing From the Inside Out: Corsets
  • The Step-By-Step Corset Workshop
  • T-Shirt and Tape Bodice Pattern
  • Underpinnings

    Chemises

  • Chemise
  • Chemise of 13,000 Pearls
  • Elizabethan Smock Pattern Generator
  • How to Make A Chemise
  • How to Make an Elizabethan Chemise
  • A Late 15th Century Italian Chemise Pattern
  • Making an Easy Elizabethan Chemise

    Cloaks

  • An Archaeological Guide to Viking Men's Clothing
  • The Bocksten Bog Man's Cloak (Sweden, ca. 1350)
  • Byzantine Dress: Cloaks
  • Cloak Site
  • Cloaks, Capes, and Wraps
  • Early Outfitter's Winter Cloak
  • Making a Cloak For Use in The SCA
  • Renaissance Patterns for Men
  • Simple Saxon Cloak
  • Sknurmantel
  • Viking Embroidery (Mammen cloak)

    Codpieces

  • A Briefe History of the Codpiece
  • A Brief History of That Most Delectable of Subjects: Codpieces
  • Codpiece International
  • Modesty to Majesty: The Development of the Codpiece

    Fans

  • An Elizabethan Feather Fan
  • Fans in the Renaissance

    Farthingales

  • The Farthingale Page
  • Easy Elizabethan Spanish Farthingale
  • Farthingales
  • History of the Farthingale
  • Making a Period Farthingale
  • Materials Needed for a Farthingale
  • Mid 1500's Hoop Skirt Side View
  • Renaissance Clothing From the Inside Out: Farthingales
  • Short History And Construction of the Spanish Farthingale
  • The Thirty-Minute Farthingale

    Gloves and Mittens

  • Gloves in Period
  • How to Make a Pair of Gloves, One Pair at a Time

    Headwear: General

  • Hat Construction

    Headwear: Medieval Chaperons, Hoods, and Liripipes

  • Chaperons and How to Make Them
  • The Cowl
  • Hats
  • Hoods, Chaperons and Liripipes of the Middle Ages
  • Hood Making Guide
  • How to be a HOOD-lum: Medieval Hoods
  • How to Make a "Dead Chicken Hat" or Chaperon
  • How to Make a Hood
  • Fifteenth Century Men's "Acorn" caps and how to knit one

    Headwear: Medieval Coifs

  • How to Make a Coif
  • Kveiv (Norwegian)

    Headwear: Medieval Circlets

  • Circlet, 14th Century

    Headwear: Medieval Hennins

  • Making a "Butterfly Henin" or Other Truncated-Cone Type Hats of the 1400s
  • My First Hat - A Truncated Hennin
  • Some Related Headresses of the 15th Century: Theories on Construction
  • Truncated Hennin Form

    Headwear: Medieval "Padded Roll" Headwear

  • Houppelande Headdress
  • Men's Stuffed-Roll Hats
  • Women's Roll Hats

    Headwear: Medieval Veils

  • Graceful Ways to Wear a Veil
  • Headrails
  • Focus on Headwear and Hairstyles

    Headwear: Other Medieval Men's Hats and Caps

  • Cap of Maintenance
  • Easy Men's Hats from 1300-1500
  • Headwear of the Middle Ages
  • Men's Italian Renaissance Red Hats
  • Fifteenth-Century Men's "Acorn" Caps (and How to Knit One)

    Headwear: Other Medieval Women's Headdresses

  • An Easy Hat from the 13th Century
  • Eibhlin's Hats of the 14th and 15th centuries
  • Medieval Women's Headdress and Costume
  • Quick'n'Easy Cauls for 1400s Headresses
  • Reticulated Headdress
  • Veil and Shaped Cauls, 15th Century
  • Women's Roll Hats

    Headwear: Hairnets and Snoods

  • Netting for Hairnets
  • Sixteenth Century Cauls, Hairnets & Snoods

    Headwear: 16th Century Attifets

  • Attifets in history
  • Elizabethan Accessories - Attifets
  • Honey Gold Attifet

    Headwear: 16th Century Brimless/Pillbox Hats

  • Short-Crowned Brimless Hat
  • Short-Crowned Brimless Hat with a close-up
  • Two Short-Crowned Brimless Hats

    Headwear: 16th Century Coifs

  • Blackwork Embroidery c. 15th-16th Century Coif
  • The Elizabethan Practical Companion: Blackwork Gallery
  • Embroidered Coif
  • Making an Elizabethan Coif
  • A Survey of Elizabethan Coifs
  • Tudor and Elizabethan Coifs

    Headwear: 16th Century Flat Caps

  • The Flat Cap
  • How to Make a Renaissance Hat
  • How to Make a Tudor Flat Cap
  • Make a Soft Cap
  • Pattern for a 16th Century English Slouch Hat
  • Tudor Flat Cap

    Headwear: 16th Century French Hoods

  • Elizabethan Style French Hood
  • Elizabethan Style French Hood with Gold Hair Net - also a back view
  • French Hoods: Their History and Development
  • Tudor French Hood

    Headwear: 16th Century Gable Hoods

  • English Gable Hood
  • An English Hood: Step-By-Step Instructions
  • Tudor Gable Headdress: A Portfolio of Images
  • Tudor Gable Headdress Illustrated: Step by Step Directions

    Headwear: 16th Century Italian Women's Headwear

  • How To Make Italian Ribbon Coifs
  • Italian Renaissance Headress and a close-up

    Headwear: 16th Century "Muffin Caps"

  • Constructing an Elizabethan Caul/Muffin Cap
  • How to Make a Muffin Cap
  • Muffin Hat Pattern

    Headwear: 16th Century Night Caps

  • The Elizabethan Practical Companion: Blackwork Gallery
  • Embroidered Man's Hat England, c. 1600

    Headwear: Other 16th Century Hats

  • Cavalier Hat
  • Elizabethan Man's Italian Bonnet and another Elizabethan Man's Italian Bonnet
  • English 1500's Man's High Hat
  • English 1500's Man's Pleated High Hat
  • English 1500's Man's Tall Hat and another English 1500's Man's Tall Hat
  • German 1500's Nobleman's Hat and 1500's German Noble Man's Hat
  • Renaissance Women's Headdress

    Headwear: Straw Hats

  • References to Straw Hats in the 17th Century
  • Straw Hats in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art

    Headwear: Articles and Miscellaneous

  • Les coiffures masculines and les coiffures féminines in medieval France (French)
  • Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Headdress: A Review of Literature
  • Headwear and Haristyles of Venice
  • Headdress Classification, Visual and Verbal
  • Headwear in Period
  • Landsknecht Hats and Headdresses
  • Relative Frequency of Headdresses by Type Found in a Sample of Visual Sources, 1400-1519

    Heraldic Clothing

  • Heraldic Field Tabards & Surcoats

    Hose, Socks, and Stockings

  • A Brief History of Hosiery
  • Hand Knit Hose
  • Hose Patterns
  • Hose of the Middle Ages
  • Hoser (Norwegian)
  • Hosiery Manufacture in the Middle Ages
  • Knitting Period Stockings
  • A Medieval Egyptian Sock
  • Nalebinding
  • Simple Saxon Trousers
  • Viking Socks by Bronach Nĺlbrjótr

    Petticoats and Skirts

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