It looks like waist-height aprons were often a square of linen with
the top corners tied behind the back. In these Manesse Codex aprons,
the smiths' aprons look as if they could be tied like napkins around
the neck.
The seed-sower here in October of The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Barry
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/october.jpg is
definitely wearing some kind of simple square or rectangle tied round
the neck.
But this seed-sower seems to have a more constructed version:
http://classes.bnf.fr/idrisi/grand/1_04.htm
(Peasants in the field in Le Régime des princes)
A woman blacksmith and a man in The Holkham Bible Picture Book c.
1327-1335, http://www.bl.uk/learning/images/medieval/year/
large2163.html, seem to have aprons where the napkin has been slashed
somehow to provide shoulder straps and waist ties.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how these bib aprons might have been
shaped or constructed?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Lauren
Lauren M. Walker
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On Jan 13, 2007, at 3:51 PM, otsisto wrote:
And the Manesse Codex but men.
1340
http://www.tempora-nostra.de/tempora-nostra/manesse.php?id=203&tfl=124
But not the waist tie ones.
De
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