On May 21, 2007, at 2:58 PM, E House wrote:
Melanie, do you have any idea how the felt was stiffened? I have a
big bag full of wool dryer lint I've been meaning to experiment
with, and an even bigger bag of teeny tiny wool scraps...
Arnold doesn't say, and I'm afraid I have no
On May 21, 2007, at 6:47 PM, michaela de bruce wrote:
I wrote that it appears to have been specified when it was stiffened
with glue as opposed to not, not that it was always a stiffened
material. Sorry if that was a little unclear.
It was clear. I was just hoping for a reference for a
On May 21, 2007, at 7:53 PM, Robin Netherton wrote:
John's paper covered the 15th c. His research on the wool economy
is very
impressive -- he was John Munro's student and spends a lot of time in
primary documents -- and I am inclined to trust his work. However,
I don't
remember this
Hi folks,
Isnt it strange but i cant find a danish word for Buckram, i have even asked
reenactors, and nobody knows.
Most annoying!!!
Bjarne
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It was clear. I was just hoping for a reference for a stiffened
buckram. It seems likely that there was such a thing, but I haven't
yet come across a reference that would certainly establish it.
Queen Mary's Wardrobe accounts, I'm not sure it that is the book I
listed (privy purse accounts
Janet Arnold shows several hats in her Patterns of Fashion
(1560-1620) that have stiffened felt as an understructure. She also
mentions the possibility of pasted paper (basically papier mache),
which is likely what was used to stiffen the crescents at the fronts
of French hoods in
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On May 17, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Tori Ruhl wrote:
I've heard people talk about making hats out of theatrical buckram. But
I didn't think that Buckram, as we know it, existed in the 16th century.
If not, then what DID exist as Buckram? What were the internal
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I think that any hat that is felted is so densely felted together that it
is very durable. I don't know of any solution that makes a hat stiff. Must
be one though.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Rautine
You can use hide glue to stiffen felt or buckram. Hatmakers also use
thinned shelac to stiffen and
On May 17, 2007, at 6:04 PM, michaela de bruce wrote:
I've heard people talk about making hats out of theatrical
buckram. But I didn't think that Buckram, as we know it, existed
in the 16th century. If not, then what DID exist as Buckram?
What were the internal structure of hats made out
John Oldland, in a paper on the medieval woolen industry in England
that he just gave at the International Congress on Medieval Studies,
mentions buckram as a type of cheap woolen fabric.
I would be a bit surprised that buckram was wool in the 16thcC,
especially given how often it was used to
That would be rawhide. They even wrap saddle trees in that stuff!
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On Tue, 22 May 2007, michaela de bruce wrote:
John Oldland, in a paper on the medieval woolen industry in England
that he just gave at the International Congress on Medieval Studies,
mentions buckram as a type of cheap woolen fabric.
I would be a bit surprised that buckram was wool in
At 04:19 PM 5/21/2007, you wrote:
That would be rawhide. They even wrap saddle trees in that stuff!
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On 21 May 2007, Robin Netherton wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007, michaela de bruce wrote:
John Oldland, in a paper on the medieval woolen industry in England
that he just gave at the International Congress on Medieval Studies,
mentions buckram as a type of cheap woolen fabric.
I would be
I've heard people talk about making hats out of theatrical buckram. But I didn't think
that Buckram, as we know it, existed in the 16th century. If not, then what DID exist as
Buckram? What were the internal structure of hats made out of?
As far as I can tell there is buckram (buckeram,
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