Lovely picture from c. 1300
May. 11th, 2006 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisThis lovely picture is from a french manuscript from the late 13th - early 14th century. It contains several interesting features. One is the fabric "hair bag" worn by the bride. Hair nets with fabric under them can be seen in quite a few manuscripts (unless you assume that the women had bright green, blue or red hair back then ;)and white "hairbags" can be seen in the Maciejowski Bible (c. 1250) but I haven't seen a coloured bag without a net over it before.
The other interesting thing is the buttoned hood worn by the parent standing to the right. It either has a very short shoulder piece or is worn under the cloak, like the Bocksten Bog man wore his. In either case it's a good example of a buttoned hood around 1300. I am making hood for my murrey ensemble, since the inventory I'm using as inspiration had hoods in all the described outfits and a buttoned hood is so much easier to put on over vimple and veil. I am aware that headwear is one of the things that differ most between the sexes in the middle ages, but hoods were so frequently willed from men to women that there hardly can have been a difference in how they looked (before the 15th century).
Oh, and there's a cool man's sleeveless surcoat with a hood.
The other interesting thing is the buttoned hood worn by the parent standing to the right. It either has a very short shoulder piece or is worn under the cloak, like the Bocksten Bog man wore his. In either case it's a good example of a buttoned hood around 1300. I am making hood for my murrey ensemble, since the inventory I'm using as inspiration had hoods in all the described outfits and a buttoned hood is so much easier to put on over vimple and veil. I am aware that headwear is one of the things that differ most between the sexes in the middle ages, but hoods were so frequently willed from men to women that there hardly can have been a difference in how they looked (before the 15th century).
Oh, and there's a cool man's sleeveless surcoat with a hood.
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Date: 2006-05-11 09:06 pm (UTC)...and I really like the kissy-kissy ornamental heads at the bottom. Snake-people love!
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Date: 2006-05-11 09:11 pm (UTC)You do know that quite a lot of Nylöse (http://www.strakt.com/~bjorn/nylose/Bilder/index.html) have been totally enamoured with this period for a couple of years now. If you're into that period and style you really should ask Anna/Ingeborg (http://www.strakt.com/~bjorn/nylose/kontakt.html) to come and give a lecture about it. She's done quite a lot of study on this style, I would definitely consider her an expert.
Eva
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Date: 2006-05-14 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 09:30 pm (UTC)Costume geek wants to know...
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Date: 2006-05-12 05:09 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-05-11 09:49 pm (UTC)Can you get that colour with vegetable dyes, is the real question ;)
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Date: 2006-05-12 09:34 am (UTC)OK, 100 years earlier than the period I'm interested in, but a man in a button hood nonetheless.
Teedy
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Date: 2006-05-12 10:09 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-05-12 10:43 am (UTC)Between them, they bracket the period i'm interested in (late 14thC/very early 15th)
Teddy