Textile Arts
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Spinning and Dying | Miscellaneous
Costumes
- Clothing and Costume
- By the Ministry of Arts & Sciences for the Kingdom of Atlantia... many links for costumers.
- The Costumer's Manifesto
- A great resource for costume links.
- The Elizabethan Corset Page
- An informative page, with paterns and rules of thumb.
- The Elizabethan Costuming Page
- This is the actual home page for the corset page. It has additional links that are very useful.
- An Anachronist's Encyclopedia - Clothes
- Numerous links to clothing sites, everything from kilts and 12th century garb to Elizabethan.
- Renaissance Costume Page
- Links to 16th century northern european Renaissance costume references.
- Calafia: Costumers Guild
- How to Make Arthurian Costume
- RenFest 101: So You Want to Go to a Renaissance Faire
- Medieval Costume Do's and Dont's
- Anglo-Saxon Dress for Men and Women
- A nice essay on dress in the 9th century. It has pictures and describes the differences in clothing between social ranks. Not a "how-to", but it has the necessary background information that any costumer would need in making truly authentic garb.
Embroidery
- Elizabethan Blackwork Embroidery Archives
- A very fine site, offering a variety of reversible patterns.
- Medieval/Renaissance Embroidery Homepage
- History of Embroidery
- Master Richar Wymarc's Medieval Embroidery Webpage
- Bayeux Tapestry Images
- Good pictures of the panels comprising the tapestry.
Weaving
- An SCA Handweavers Bibliography
- Tablet Weaving Archive
- An SCAer's delight.
- Bonnie Datta's Weaving page
- The Weaver's Hand
- An Introduction to Inkle Weaving
- Tablet Weaving Patterns
- TurnStyler 1.0
- Hey! Here's some software to keep the twists in line. There is demo software, but is always nice to support the creator...
- Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.
- Homepage Kurt Laitenberger
- Nice samples of woven bands... not yet in English, but he's working on it.
- Tablet Weaving Archive
- Tablet Weaving
- I have this link mostly for the pictures.
- Tablet Weaving Information
- Adventures in Tablet Weaving
- Birka-Style Tablet Weaving Recipe
- Tablet Weaving Patterns
- 1998 Tablet Weaving Adventure in England and Holland
- Virginia Corman's Tablet Weaving Patterns
- Brocaded Tablet Weaving
- Three Recipes for Fourteens- and Fifteenth-Century Tablet Weaving
- Tablet Weaving
- Tablet Weaving Simulator
- A Java-based applet. I haven't actually tried this one, but it looks interesting.
- Tablet Weaving, Continuous Warp
- Tablet Weaving Theory
- A Saxon Threaded-In Tablet Weave
- Eachna's Tablet or Card Weaving Page
- Weaving Links
- Warp Weighted Loom
- Great pictures!
- White Wolf and the Phoenix
- Stefan's Florilegium: Medieval Looms
Spinning and Dyeing
- Handspinning with a Drop Spindle
- Serves as a short introduction. Has a couple of books listed.
- Spindlitis help page
- How-tos on using a drop spindle.
- Let's Ask Stefie!
- A "Dear Abbey" style format for fiber arts such as spinning and dying fibers.
- History of Dyes from 2600BC to 20th Century
- Dye Recipes from the Innesbruck Manuscript
- Spinning and Weaving
- Compton's Online Encyclopedia entry for spinning and weaving.
- Dyestuffs
- Celtic natural dying, etc.
- From Caveman to Chemist: Dye
- Natural dying with recipes.
- An Historical Overview of Dyes, Dying, and Fabric Colors in the Renaissance
- Medieval Gardens
- They kept many types of plants in their gardens, and some were used in dying cloth...
- Kathryn of the Hills' Dye Book
- Covers instructions for dying, mordanting, and making dyes.
- The Woad Page
- I heard that this plant may be considered a pest in my area... and therefore illegal to propagate? Be responsible and check on it before you grow it.
- A Few Medieval Braids
- Textile Resources for the Re-enactor
- Ravensgard Costuming and Textiles Page
- Gavvin's Keep: Ladies' Solar
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