Yes, that's among the problems for me -- if a standard loom width was
in the 22 to 36-inch range, well, they are lucky they were skinnier
than we are, and that fabric will skew when tugged at the corners.
But the woman blacksmith's apron in particular seems to be sort of
pulling and draping as if the shoulder straps were originally part of
the horizontal somehow. Having just played with a nice 40-inch hemmed
linen square I happen to have here, I find that while some of those
drapes do happen with it, a lot of the look in the pictures is more
bias-y somehow. The straight-cut square makes even more drapes and
folds than I'm seeing in the apron pictures. So I wonder if these
simple aprons were cut on the diagonal. But the way the bottom hems
are straight makes me doubt this. I will be mucking about with linen
over the next week or so for other reasons anyway (I have shifts and
veils and caps and coifs to make!) and will try some experiments in
the apron direction while I am at it.
Lauren
Lauren M. Walker
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On Jan 19, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Jean Waddie wrote:
These make me wonder whether the supposedly square / rectangular
waist aprons, without a separate waistband, are extended in a
similar way to provide ties. You need an extremely large square to
be able to just tie the corners around your waist. But it does
seem very wasteful if they are cut in one piece as they seem to be.
Jean
Lauren Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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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