Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Patricia Dunham
umm, the link to an image didn't come across?? chimene On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote: With the caveats that artistic representations aren't always intended to represent actual clothing construction, and that representations of clothing decoration are sometimes

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Heather Rose Jones
Hmm, I seem to have failed at the paste part of the process: http://www.huscarl.at/wissenschaft02.php On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Patricia Dunham wrote: umm, the link to an image didn't come across?? chimene On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote: With the caveats

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Genie Barrett
I think, that with stripes that wide, it was two different types of fabric sewn together. The one with points may be different, however. My 2 cents Genie B On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Heather Rose Jones heather.jo...@earthlink.net wrote: Hmm, I seem to have failed at the paste part of

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Sharon Collier
When I was in college, one of the ways the costume teacher made a medieval dress was to have the actress lay down diagonally on the fabric, then trace around her. It worked beautifully, making a great fitting bias cut dress. Maybe the garment pictured was just cut on the bias out of

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Leah Janette
Only a few years later, you find the infamous Spanish diagonal plaids. http://jessamynscloset.com/plaid.html They still don't answer the question of cut on the diagonal or woven that way? but they don't seem to be an artistic convention for heraldry. They could not be stripes tacked on

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Schaeffer, Astrida
Sigh. Must reconstruct my thoughts, stupid e-mail program erased my message when I hit send. I hate Microsoft. Assuming the patterning isn't a matter of artistic license, I think this is a combination of bias use of a woven stripe fabric, and piecework (constructing fabric out of contrasting

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Joan Jurancich
At 07:15 AM 10/21/2010, you wrote: My first thought is that it seems to be some sort of artistic painting convention for depicting a party or performers. If you look at the stripes, they don't follow the lines of the clothes or the body - they're painted on in straight swaths, whether or not the

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread otsisto
if it is allegorical or religious then the artist made up the garment. My feeling is that if this were true then all medieval and renaissance artists were fashion designers. The Manesse drawings are simplistic and the artist does not have a full grasp of fabric pattern draping. The patterns can

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Cin
HRJ, Sorry dont know much about the Manesse Codex and the surrounding culture or even much about the 14th c. I've been head-first into the serving hall fashions of 1420-1440s Catalunya preparing for the Perfectly Period Feast next month. There's a diagonal striped garment here, as well. I'll

[h-cost] Greenberg and Hammer closed!

2010-10-21 Thread Wicked Frau
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Re: [h-cost] Greenberg and Hammer closed!

2010-10-21 Thread Kimiko Small
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Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Ginni Morgan
Heather I have made a number of tunics on this general pattern, so I took the liberty of interpreting the stripes as straight grain. The artist clearly does accurately depict the actual clothing, although I think he does a fair job of giving the general impression of the garments. However,

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Heather Rose Jones
But there's a difference between _whether_ the art represents actual clothing details and how _well_ it does so. The failure to represent how a design on fabric would follow the folds of the fabric doesn't automatically imply that it doesn't represent an actual fabric design. That aspect

Re: [h-cost] Greenberg and Hammer closed!

2010-10-21 Thread Franchesca
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Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Heather Rose Jones
On Oct 21, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Leah Janette wrote: Only a few years later, you find the infamous Spanish diagonal plaids. http://jessamynscloset.com/plaid.html They still don't answer the question of cut on the diagonal or woven that way? but they don't seem to be an artistic

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Heather Rose Jones
On Oct 21, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Schaeffer, Astrida wrote: Sigh. Must reconstruct my thoughts, stupid e-mail program erased my message when I hit send. I hate Microsoft. Assuming the patterning isn't a matter of artistic license, I think this is a combination of bias use of a woven

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Heather Rose Jones
Thank you all for your thoughts on this question -- it's been useful to see how other people would analyze it. I think I've confirmed my opinion that the data simply doesn't support a conclusion of bias cut at this particular time in this particular context -- at least not sufficiently for my

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Robin Netherton
Chiming in late, I'm afraid, but toss my reading into this camp: On 10/20/2010 11:47 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote: Symbolic interpretation of armorial designs not intending to represent actual garments? I suppose the garments *could* be made by a variety of conjectured methods, as others

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Sunshine Buchler
What are people's thoughts on the garments depicted in the early 14th c. Manesse Codex that have diagonal striped designs? Woven as diagonal stripes? Print? Woven as straight-grain stripes and cut on the bias? Symbolic interpretation of armorial designs not intending to represent

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Becky Rautine
Also, during this period, the silk trade was flourishing. One thing the Orient did to change fabrics was the bound dying. Using a board in a clamp to resist and area and dye the exposed area. The bias of the fabric isn't affected and a unique pattern is created. Maybe this is what the

Re: [h-cost] Opinions on Manesse Codex diagonal stripes

2010-10-21 Thread Heather Rose Jones
On Oct 21, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Sunshine Buchler wrote: What are people's thoughts on the garments depicted in the early 14th c. Manesse Codex that have diagonal striped designs? Woven as diagonal stripes? Print? Woven as straight-grain stripes and cut on the bias? Symbolic