Hi Robin,
here is my few cents worth:
gloves
shoes
underclothing
hose
cotehardie :-)
tailoring
construction sewing/seam and hem treatments
oil cloth
felt
cotton
hemp
canvas (tent materials etc)
painting on textiles
starch (if it was used before 1450)
prevention of insect attack (moth damage to silk and wool, possibly also
treatment of furs and bedding against fleas)
domestic textiles (napery, bed hangings, bedsheets, blankets,
curtains...)
cushions
storage (of clothing and domestic textiles)
cleaning
cloth armour (eg multi-layer linen jacks)
the rag trade and paper production
I'm sure I can think of more :-)
Annette Wilson
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:11:30 -0600
From: Robin Netherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your
wish list
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Cathy wrote, in response to my request earlier:
> Here's some that occur to me, focused as I am on the early part of the
> period you cite:
>
> peplos
> diamond twill
> lozenge twill
> broken lozenge twill
> use of beads in costume
> use of embroidery in costume
> veils
> warp-weighted loom
> horizontal loom
> linen
> linen production
> dyes
> madder
> nalbinding (the "Coppergate sock" could be an entry as well)
This is exactly the sort of list I was hoping for! I think, though, from
the responses that have been coming to me privately (and the absence of
reply on the list) I wasn't clear enough in my first post. So I'll try
again, more directly.
I'm one of a team of editors working on a new, big, important project
(yes, there's already a publisher committed) to create an encyclopedia
of dress and textiles in Britain, 450-1450. Right now we're developing
the master list of headwords that will define the entire arrangement of
the encyclopedia. And we know we won't think of everything ourselves.
So I'm asking those of you who work in medieval clothing -- the
potential users of this reference book -- what you'd like to see in it.
I need, specifically, terms that you might want to look up, like Cathy
provided above.
This might include anything from large overviews ("headwear") to
articles on specific terms or garments ("wimple," "hood"); social and
economic issues ("sumptuary law," "guilds"); techniques ("gore,"
"couching"); important sources and artifacts ("Bayeux tapestry," "Black
Prince's surcote"), or anything else related to dress and textiles or
the study thereof -- as long as it's connected to the British Isles
(including Ireland), 450-1450.
And as long as we're making a wish list, if there's a particular living
scholar you wish would be the author of an article -- the person you'd
consider the world's expert on that topic -- tell me that too. We
already have some of the field's top scholars involved, and we don't
want to overlook anyone.
Replies to me are OK, to the list is better (partly because it might
promote brainstorming, but also because some people have reported some
erratic bouncing of my mail!).
A bribe: To anyone who gives me a helpful response, I will send a
discount coupon for certain much-desired books in medieval dress and
textile study from my publisher.
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Thanks again,
Robin
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