cl-Germany-msg - 8/28/04
Clothing of Medieval Germany.
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From: erilarlo at win.bright.net
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: german name documentation
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:44:38 -0600
Organization: BrightNet Wisconsin
zigs66 at aol.com (Zigs66) wrote:
> I have (I think) settled on a Germanic persona, probably as a trader
> living somewhere in the 12th-14th century range. I tentatively chose the
> region of Cologne, as this was in the major trading route.
> With this in mind, I came up with the name Anneliese Wildfang.
> Anneliese came from a list of German female names (it also included Anna
> and Liesl) and Wildfang came from a german dictionary, and means hoyden.
Possibly useful clothing note: the grosse Manessische Liederhandschrift
has easy-to-imitate clothing. Even if you can't read German, the pictures
might be helpful. Actually, even if you can read modern German, the poems
aren't: they're in Middle High German.
I have no documentation to offer, but I don't recall any doubled first
names in the period you've chosen.
Have fun! erilar
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From: Heather Rose Jones <heather.jones at earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Another stupid newb post question.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:04:09 GMT
Tracy Mazur wrote:
> I'm kind of a semi-newb, and have done things, when I was younger and in
> college with the SCA (I might say thought that most of it was half-assed).
>
> Anyway, I've got more time on my hands now (though note I did not say more $
> <grin>), and want to try to do things right this time.
>
> I've decided that I'd like to do an early germanic (going to look for a
> tribe in southern germany, kind of the area where Bayern is now) persona,
> around between 400-600AD, a post roman kind of thing. I'm one of those
> wierd females who prefers to wear male-style garb (no particular reason
> except that I'm very, very, very uncomfortable in dresses. Believe it or
> not, the only dresses that even start to approach a modicum of comfort to me
> are actually garb, but I can't wear them all the time). I've got a fairly
> good idea what type of garb I'll need (pretty basic T-tunics with narrow
> sleeves, pants, basic square woolen cloak, etc...).
>
> I know wool is a good textile, but what about lighter weight leather? I'm
> going to do my armor for fighting in leather (thus the question about scale
> mail), and figured if I'm going to work with leather for that, I might as
> well check out clothing options.
>
> Are there any good books that could give me a clue in that direction? I've
> hit a few websites, but it seems a little hard to find pre-1000 garb ideas
> online unless you're going to do a viking.
Relatively speaking, there's an embarrassment of riches for
the clothing of migration era Germany, although the majority
of the evidence I'm familiar with tends to come from
northern Germany (due to there being more bogs there for
people to be pushed ... uh ... fall into).
Do whatever you find necessary to get your hands on a copy of:
Schlabow, Ka
From: Heather Rose Jones <heather.jones at earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Another stupid newb post question.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:45:23 GMT
Heather Rose Jones wrote:
> Relatively speaking, there's an embarrassment of riches for the clothing
> of migration era Germany, although the majority of the evidence I'm
> familiar with tends to come from northern Germany (due to there being
> more bogs there for people to be pushed ... uh ... fall into).
>
> Do whatever you find necessary to get your hands on a copy of:
>
> Schlabow, Ka
Whoa! Whatever happened to the rest of that? It was there
when I hit "send". Let's try that again if I can
reconstruct the rest of it.
Do whatever you find necessary to get your hands on a copy of:
Schlabow, Karl. 1976. Textilfunde der Eisenzeit in
Norddeutschland. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumuenster. ISBN
3-529-01515-6
An extensive and relatively exhaustive look at surviving
textiles and clothing from northern German in the Iron Age.
Also useful (if less comprehensive) may be:
Bertel, Antja & Ronald Knochle. 1993. "Zu einem Frauengrab
des sechsten Jahrhunderts aus ..." in Germania: 71:419-439.
Schlabow, Karl. 1938. "Kleidungstucke aus dem Moorfund von
Damendorf" in Offa: 114-121.
Schlabow, Karl. 1938. "Textilreste vom Galgenberg in
Itzehoe" in Offa: 85-88.
Schleiermacher, Mathilde. 1982. "Romische Leder- und
Textilfunde aus Koln" in Archaeologisches Korrespo:
12:205-214.
Schlabow, Karl. 1982. Thorsberger Prachtmantel. Karl
Wachholtz Verlag, NeumŸnster. ISBN 3529-01705-1
Hald, Margrethe. 1972. Primitive Shoes. The Nat. Mus. of
Denmark, Copenhagen. ISBN 87-480-7282-6
Knowledge of German (or access to someone who does) would be
extremely useful to you in this quest, as a significant
amount of the publications on German archaeology are
published in German.
Tangwystyl
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From: "Tracy Mazur" <temazur at adelphia.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Another stupid newb post question.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:29:13 -0400
"Heather Rose Jones" <heather.jones at earthlink.net> wrote in message
Do you mean "Textilfunde der Eisenzeit in Norddeutschland"? Finding that is
going to be a trick and a half. :) Does it mention much about clothing
styles, or is it all cloth, all the time?
Tracy
> Relatively speaking, there's an embarrassment of riches for
> the clothing of migration era Germany, although the majority
> of the evidence I'm familiar with tends to come from
> northern Germany (due to there being more bogs there for
> people to be pushed ... uh ... fall into).
>
> Do whatever you find necessary to get your hands on a copy of:
>
> Schlabow, Ka
From: Ester Mendes <celyn at drizzle.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Another stupid newb post question.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:05:13 -0700
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Tracy Mazur wrote:
> Do you mean "Textilfunde der Eisenzeit in Norddeutschland"? Finding that is
> going to be a trick and a half. :)
As with most scholarly titles, your best bet is to go to
your local public library and talk to the librarians
there about borrowing a copy through Interlibrary Loan
(ILL).
Here is the information you would use to do that:
Title: Textilfunde der Eisenzeit in Norddeutschland
Author(s): Schlabow, Karl.
Publication: NeumŸnster : K. Wachholtz, 1976
Standard No: ISBN: 3529015156; LCCN: 76-478084
OCLC: 2526391
Approximately 29 libraries have this title:
UNIV OF WASHINGTON LIBR
UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
YALE UNIV LIBR
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
SMITHSONIAN INST
UNIV OF GEORGIA
NORTHWESTERN UNIV
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV
UNIV OF CHICAGO
INDIANA UNIV
HARVARD UNIV, HARVARD COL LIBR TECH SERV
UNIV OF MICHIGAN LIBR
WAYNE STATE UNIV
UNIV OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA
PRINCETON UNIV
COLUMBIA UNIV
CORNELL UNIV
NEW YORK PUB LIBR RES LIBR
OHIO STATE UNIV, THE
UNIV OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
UNIV OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, GEN LIBR SYS
UNIV OF WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE
UNIV OF WESTERN ONTARIO
BIBLIOTHEQUE NAT & UNIV STRASBOURG
BNU STRASBOURG, RCON PROJ
BRITISH MUS, DEPT OF ETHNOGRAPHY
NATIONAL UNIV OF IRELAND, GALWAY
UNIV LIBR DE BRUXELLES
UNIV OF OXFORD
Ester Mendes
(Kirsti Thomas)
celyn at drizzle.com
From: Heather Rose Jones <heather.jones at earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Another stupid newb post question.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:52:40 GMT
Tracy Mazur wrote:
> "Heather Rose Jones" <heather.jones at earthlink.net> wrote in message
> Do you mean "Textilfunde der Eisenzeit in Norddeutschland"? Finding that is
> going to be a trick and a half. :) Does it mention much about clothing
> styles, or is it all cloth, all the time?
I've re-posted the complete version of my original post.
Schlabow includes detailed diagrams and technical drawings
(in addition to photographs) of all the major clothing
survivals. This includes close to half a dozen pairs of
trousers, a similar number of tunics, a large number of
cloaks, and a variety of other items such as leg-wraps.
Many of these finds also had non-textile items associated
with them (e.g., shoes, belts, jewelry) but this particular
book focuses on the textile goods.
The tunics are all relatively straightforward in cut (and,
of course, the cloaks are simplicity itself) but the
trousers use a variety of rather complicated close-fitting
cuts that will take some experimenting to work out. I've
been trying to work up a set of drafting instructions for
the pair from Thorsbjerg (or rather, the best-known of the
pairs from Thorsbjerg) but it still has a number of bugs to
work out. (I can make it work for _me_, I just haven't
gotten it to work reliably for other people.)
Tangwystyl
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