Garb and Patterns

Cloaks Roman 10th-11th C English 12th C English/French 10th C Irish 15th C Italian
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Cloak Patterns

Roman Garb

Women would wear several layers of garments. The bottom layer was a tunica. Over that, married women wore a stola and a palla. Several web sites suggest that a sleeved tunic could be worn under a tunica or peplos on unmarried (or less than high class) women. Men wore a tunica and a toga.

10th-11th C English Garb

12th C English/French Garb

Noble women wore a tight-fitted drapy sleeved dress (bliaut) for court functions or a looser dress with smaller sleeves (cote) for everyday wear. They wore a long cloth belt (ceinture) with the bliaut or a leather belt (corroie) with the cote. Other accessories possibly included a hooded cape (chape), a sleeveless knee length overdress (pelice), hair braided with gold ribbons (trecheure), a wimple on older or married women, and a big mantle.

  • Statues, Drawings, and Paintings
    (Note: Drawings may be inaccurate representations)
  • Garments and Accessories
  • Bliaut Construction Theories, Patterns

    There are several competing construction theories:

    1. Cut like 11th C garments with extra length in the torso to create wrinkles when laced.
    2. Torso sewed onto pleated skirt.
    3. Bias cut torso sewed onto peated skirt.

    • My bliaut making pattern and instructions. (theory #1)
    • 12thcenturygarb (discussion and sources - Must join yahoo group to view)
    • The Beautiful Bliaut
      Lady Arianne de Chateau-Michel - Theory and Accessories, Making a bliaut and Pattern (theory #2)
    • Belinda Silby. "The Bliaut: A Reconstruction Based on Primary Source Material", in the Winter 1993 issue of Tournaments Illuminated. (theory #3)
    • Mistress Rosemounde of Mercia, O.L. "The Bliaut: A New perspective on Pattern and Cut" Tournaments Illustrated issue #83 (Summer ASXXII)
    • The Bliaut Files
      Marguerie de Jauncourt - Theory, Pattern, Accessories (theory #1)
  • Fabric
    • Guesses at Bliaut Fabric: Wool, Linen, Silk.
    • Geometric patterns, not floral
    • Not raw silk, silk noile, silk dupionni (out-of period weaves according to 12thcenturygarb yahoo group)
    • Jacquard is fine, Twill is fine

Links and Info Collections

5-10th C Irish Garb

Women: Long wide dress called a leine, rectangular shawl called a brat.

Men: Knee length leine, a vest called an ionar, a brat.

15th C Italian Garb

Undergarb

General Paintings and Pictures

General Patterns and Instructions

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