a new faire in central texas
Www.sherwoodforestfaire.com
We need costume patterns for acting company
Period--12th thru 16th century
Peasants,merchants, nobilty
Have pictures from Dover Clipart, but need patterns or samples to make multiple sets from
Any help???
Rengypsy
If you need children's sizes, or can size up a pattern, I just bought a medieval one from Burda. It has a laced up underdress (is that called a kirtle?) and an overdress with godets. (is that called a surcoat or cotte?) I am not as familiar with medieval terms.
http://www.burdafashion.com/en/Patterns/Children%E2%80%99s_Costumes/9658_Historical_Dress/1270778-1535340-1129013-1392650.html
How about some of these:
Burda: merchant to noble, depending on fabrics and trims:
(http://burdafashion.bsb-adv.de/images/repos/1/000/001/428/000001428960)
For something a little later, Reconstructing History has some great clothing patterns:
https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/historical-clothing.php?c=22&d=29&w=24&r=Y
https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/historical-clothing.php?c=22&d=32&w=24&r=Y
This might also help...
http://www.lulu.com/content/1255610
Why not just draft the patterns yourself? Early period medieval is just a bunch of rectangles and triangles. And with only minor tweaking, you can actually use the Elizabethan Smock Generator (http://www.elizabethancostume.net/smockpat/) to churn out both men's tunics and women's kirtles. The tweaking is just putting an extra gore centre front and back and using a different neckline. Ta-da!
Here's a diagram that might be useful.
http://www.historicenterprises.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=594&c=152
http://www.historicenterprises.com/misc/refpics/skjoldehamn.jpg
http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/humanities/medsocsewinginfopage.html
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/arnora/costumehdbk.htm
More patterns
http://www.alteryears.com/index.html?c113.html&1
(Sneaks in and steals links...) Fank Yoo! [/b]
YW :D
First of all we need to know when in the wide medieval time period we are speaking and which country. Because depending on that, it changes if you are doing an Italian Faire v. German Faire or English or French Faires. Ages are from 1200s to 1400s, so it is quite a bit of time and land to cover.
You can check out these;
Period Patterns: These are some of the first patterns on the market and they have changed for the better.
http://www.mediaevalmisc.com/ (http://www.mediaevalmisc.com/)
Kass McGann has been working on Medieval patterns.
www.Reconstructinghistory.com (http://www.reconstructinghistory.com)
Patterns Out of Time
http://www.patternsoftime.com/products.asp (http://www.patternsoftime.com/products.asp)
Online Patterns:
Dawns pages
http://www.reddawn.net/costume/patterns.htm (http://www.reddawn.net/costume/patterns.htm)
http://www.moondragon.org/costumes/11cdress.html (http://www.moondragon.org/costumes/11cdress.html)
Gothic Fitted Gown- Here is a great site to help you get a great look!
http://www.cottesimple.com/ (http://www.cottesimple.com/)
Here are some awesome articles from Cynthia Virtue's Site
http://www.virtue.to/articles/ (http://www.virtue.to/articles/)
Medieval Patterns
http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/arnora/costumehdbk.htm (http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/arnora/costumehdbk.htm)
Basic information
http://www.adamastorshire.co.za/chronicler/stormtidings/archive/garb/garb4.html (http://www.adamastorshire.co.za/chronicler/stormtidings/archive/garb/garb4.html)
I hope this helps!
Cilean
I make all of my own patterns, mostly based on the information from this site.
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html