Helm Crests

An exploration of making functional crests and their use in the fifteenth century.

Showing posts with label 1430s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1430s. Show all posts
Thursday, 15 August 2013

Clothing from the Decameron: Infants, Children and Youth

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Children appear to wear smaller versions of adult clothing. Infants are swaddled - wrapped in bands of fabric. The two teenage girls are ...

Clothing from the Decameron: Women

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Here is a simple handout I created for a class on clothing shown in the Decameron. Women's clothing Underwear Smock Rarely ...

Clothing from the Decameron: Men

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Boccaccio wrote several texts, though his best known work was The Decameron. This series of 10 tales per day told for 10 days was written in...
Saturday, 27 July 2013

Crests in 1430s: part 2

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Here are some images from 1430-1439 showing a few different things people wore on their helms. http://manuscriptminiatures.com/48...
Friday, 26 July 2013

Crests in 1430s: Part 1

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For this collection of images, I have quite a few that are listed with a likely span of creation, rather than a firm date. I am going to c...
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Heilwich Gheerts
Heilwich Gheerts lived in Ghent during the fifteenth century. She was born 1420 and died 1482. Osk Ornsdotir lived in Birka during the early 10th Century. She enjoys watching the people who come to her island home, but doesn't envy the time they have to spend on boats. Her modern counterpart has been playing SCA in the Kingdom of Lochac since 2001, and is enjoying her second and third lives.
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