Gentles of the List,
I solicit your help most urgently in finding Patterns for late-15th C
European gentle/noble women's head-dresses.
My Lady Alys Vitel de Ploubazlanec* wants to make herself some more
headresses to complement the one she already has. She wants to be able to do
this in time for our Duke's Leopards second event of our 2006 Season, a big
3-day Camp at the end of May, [when we shall co-incidentally be hosting 15
Subjects of the Kingdom of Drachenwald].
[ * If you want to see her in one of her 2 dresses, then look under "Companie
Personas" in the Main Menu at our Companie website - < www.dukesleopards.org > ]
The Fashions in "old" Jersey during the period 1450-1509 were largely
influenced by the Duchy of Burgundy, and the frequently-visiting Merchants from
the Italian States [travelling aboard Venetian-led Trade Fleets stopping in the
Anglo-Norman Islands en-route for ports further northwards.]
I managed to buy a copy of "Period Patterns Tudor head-dresses" {No 52} 2
years back, but loaned it out and it has been mislaid. My Lady and I are
fairly new at re-enacting, - and this is the only such Pattern for head-dresses
of "our period that we are aware of.
My usual [and my main] "kit" Supplier in the States - [for when we have to
buy readymade what we need urgently and cannot make for ourselves] , the
ever-helpful Jeremy Clos, tells me he doesn't stock Period Patterns any longer,
citing "supply problems".
If *he's* having problems getting Period Pastterns promptly to order, I
assume that the same probabaly applies to all the other Stockists listed on the
Period Patterns website.
So, can I ask for your recommendations for EITHER- a Stockist who IS likely
to have that Pattern in stock now
OR b] another source of readily-available Patterns for appropriate
"in-Period" head-dresses.
With Thanks in advance for the helpful replies I know some of you will be
able to send, I ask God's Blessings on your Houses and your Works, until He
calls us Home, to Him
Yours in Service,
Matthew
["Messire Matthew Baker", Governor & Castellan of Jersey, 1486-1497:
Motto - "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (Trans:-"if you wish for Peace, prepare
for War") ]
aka. - Julian Wilson, - late-medieval Re-enactor; Herald, Historian, &
Master Artisan to
"The Companie of the Duke's Leopards",
[the Island of "old" Jersey's only mediæval living-history Group]
Meet us at < www.dukesleopards.org >"
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