Palio of Asti http://tinyurl.com/6yn5p2
Some pics. http://tinyurl.com/63cznw I would say the the outfits are not exact replicas but possible interpretation of garments worn in late 1200s and early 1300s. >From memory from when I was doing a brief research on Medieval clothing in Charlemagne's time, I came across extant fabric pieces that had the patterns used in the garments. Maybe this will help http://www.virtue.to/articles/extant.html -----Original Message----- Does anyone have any information, background or technical, on this 1993 exhibit of costume held in Legnano, Italy? Looking at the pictures, I can not think that they were trying to recreate extant or known-from-MSS garb as the sources for the designs are taken from a variety of Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon, southern Italian (and did I actually see some Celtic knotwork?!) sources placed on a ground of basic Norman garb. I am knee-deep in research on this time and place, and nothing, except Roger's mantle, of course, leaps out and says "I'm attempting to be the real thing." _Odisseus / Ulysses Gallery_ (http://ranaan.altervista.org/html/SCA-Gallery.htm) (The pictures on this page are taken, without attribution, from the exhibition catalogue.) I would very much like to know the purpose behind this exhibition as the question comes up frequently enough about the use of these costumes as documentation. Nancy _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
