frualeydis | Rickard has a fancy cloak (Reply)

Yesterday I finished Rickard's semi-circular cloak. It's made from dark blue wool tabby and lined with shot silk in orange and green. Along the straight edge there is a wide band of zari trim that I bought from Cheap Fabrics. This is how it looks. It doesn't have a typically indian pattern so I think it could go for a muslim Tiraz band which were given as prestigious gifts between the muslim and christian leaders and also distributed among the christians in the 12th century (Janet Snyder has written an article on this in Medieval fabrications : dress, textiles, clothwork, and other cultural imaginings edited by Jane E Burns). Woven bands or embroidery along the straight edge of the cloak is very common in pictures from the high Middle Ages. The ties of the cloak are fingerloop braids in silk.
So now he has a real luxury cloak and I just need to make a new, really cool 12th c. tunic for him. He has some good tunics from this period, but I have bought thin wool, silk and freshwater pearls for a new tunic.