Helm Crests
An exploration of making functional crests and their use in the fifteenth century.
Friday, 16 August 2013
Another Helm Crest Blog
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This lovely lady was the person who first introduced me to Cennini. Rachel Grimmer makes an awesome range of projects and is Excellent (pun ...
Gesso from calcium carbonate vs gesso from calcium sulphate
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In my last post, I briefly outlined what gesso was. I am still looking into how it came to be used and why type was chosen over the other. I...
What is Gesso , Ground and Size?
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Reading Cennini's instructions on making gesso left me confused so I went searching. The best results I found were at Qualitative Study ...
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...
Crests in 1450s: Part 3
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1400-1450 Austria http://manuscriptminiatures.com/3963/13535/
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