I’m getting ready to draft the pattern for my final garment of the Arnegunde outfit, the outer coat. I’ve finished the embroidery for the front opening and I’ve ordered the gold thread for the cuffs.

There are so few extant garments from this period making it hard to know how they were constructed. This is just a list of websites and resources for information on garment construction (and some other goodies).

Gallo-Roman tunic from Martres de Veyre. 1-2 C.

• Originally published in <Audollent, A.  (1921) Les tombes des Martres-de-Veyre. Man, 21 (Nov.), 161-164.>
• This website has the added bonus of the hair from the dead lady.
•  Website in Russian by a woman who recreated the garments

Merovingian

• UPDATED: CLOTHING OF THE MEROVINGIAN GRAVE OF PERRUSSON (INDRE-ET-LOIRE)
• Das grab der Arnegundis in Saint-Denis
• Bathilde and Bertille — a bit of history!

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  close-up of sleeve hem

  

  Point of neck gusset

  

  Pattern and cutting diagram for the Grand Robe

Close up of a seam

A very fuzzy image of the Robe

• A discussion (In German) on the possibility that this garment wasn’t actually for Bathilde…
• Kornbluth Photography has some great images of Bathilde’s chausable and cardweaving…

Carolingian

Viking Age

• Tunique de Skjold hamn, 995-1029 (Well, OK, it’s Norse, but it’s what we got)
• Another blog post on the garment
• And another blog post

• Carolyn Priest-Dorman’s excellent website on Viking Tunic Construction which lists the following locations/eras:
• Thorsbjerg (Scheleswig-Holstein, Germany), Migration Era;
• Une tunique “romanienne”
• Evebø (Norway), fifth century;
• Birka (Sweden), ninth and tenth centuries;
• A treasure trove of articles by Inga Hagg
• Bjerringhøj (“Mammen,” Denmark), tenth century;
• Hedeby (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), tenth and eleventh centuries;
• Jorvík (the Danelaw in England) and Dublin (Ireland), tenth and eleventh centuries; and
• Viborg (Denmark), eleventh century

• A new theory on the costumes of the Oseberg Queen and her attendant
• Some pictures of the museum exhibit

Persian Caftan

• The Cut of an Extant Persian Caftan