UPDATED: Conjectural clothing construction
On December 12, 2011 by thealater With 5 Comments
- Archaeology, Dress and accessories, Gallo-Roman, Textiles, Uncategorized
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;
- 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
Persian Caftan
Interesting. I did not know, before your post, that the Martres de Veyre find includes a braid of the woman’s hair. I was considering making my own reconstruction of the items in that grave, and I may still do so.
I just purchased Margarita Gleba’s book, Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy. It contains a descriptive list of all of the early pre-Roman textile finds. One of the finds includes a pair of leggings like the one the Martres de Veyre woman had. I will have to blog about them soon, though I have other stuff in the pipeline for the near future.
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I knew the pictures on the Russian site looked familiar to me, so I did some digging.
The Russian who put up the website did not do a reconstruction; she was making a Russian translation of an English (both the language and the country; I believe the original reconstructor was English) website on the Martres de Veyre find that I had seen, years ago. The original English site is no longer up but is available through the Wayback Machine here: http://web.archive.org/web/20100729104423/http://www.rentapeasant.co.uk/romanogaulish.html
A Google Translation of the Russian website which plainly indicates that it’s a translation of the earlier English site is here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcelticreconstruction.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fles-martres-de-veyre.html
The english webside ist still online:
http://www.rentapeasant.co.uk/romanogaulish.html
The pictures on the russian side are copied from flickr.
Some more pretty things from Martres de Veyre:
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/ClermontMuseumGlass.html
Scroll down, there are wood shoes.,woolen slippers and the braided hair. http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/ClermontMuseumGlass.html
Those are great images! Thank you. I really appreciate the images of the wooden pattens.