On Saturday 03 December 2005 1:56 am, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
[snip]
It also strikes me that those descriptions don't rule out the
possibility that the linen was used as a lining for the caftan or
hanging dress respectively. (I keep forgetting what the current
standard English term is for
, while the snow comes
down on the dark streets outside, and the cats sleep on the hearth rug.
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On Saturday 03 December 2005 8:21 pm, Sue Clemenger wrote:
The terms I hear/see most often used for that item of clothing around here
are either apron gown or apron dress. Apron gown more commonly.
I never heard apron gown before, though it makes as much sense as anything
else.
--
Cathy
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, E House wrote:
Well, a quick search hasn't found that reference I was thinking of yet
(I'm still going to look more, since this is BUGGING me), but did find
these references to dyeing linen--that doesn't indicate what that
linen was then used FOR, but it's a definite part
Yes! That was from Drea's site. By the way, I'm not saying that colored
linen should be used for outer layers of outer garments (but I do, because I
can look at a picture of fire and get over-heated) but rather that colored
linen can be reasonably documented as a _part_ of an outer garment.
On Friday 02 December 2005 3:55 pm, Robin Netherton wrote:
[snip]
Clearly there's some dyed linen floating around in medieval Western Europe
-- e.g. there's a surviving garment with black linen lining, IIRC -- and I
want to make very sure no one thinks I'm saying there was no linen dyeing
done
Of course Linen is not as durable in an extant situation as is wool.
Ron Carnegie
I know of no examples of linen outerwear from the later Middle Ages.
However, in an essay published in Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe
Inga Hagg published the results of a stratographic analysis of
On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
On Friday 02 December 2005 3:55 pm, Robin Netherton wrote:
[snip]
Clearly there's some dyed linen floating around in medieval
Western Europe
-- e.g. there's a surviving garment with black linen lining, IIRC
-- and I
want to make
