Index Houpelande Theory Class 14th Century Sewing & Textile Information
Cotehardies from Greenland Gowns
Major Sources
Patterns
Constructing the garment
Front and Back
Gores (Panels)
Baste Pattern
Fitting the Garment
Sleeves
The last few details
Bibliography
Evidence
Links

Useful Web Sites (mainly for pictures)

Artwork of the Limbourg Brothers:
http://sunsite.uniandes.edu.co/cgfa/limbourg/
http://mirror.bibl.u-szeged.hu/cgfa/limbourg/index.html

French National Library Manuscripts
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/
(after geting to each of the text pages below, click on the "BNF" number to get to the actual manuscript pictures):
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/atable.htm
Jean Froisart, Chronicles
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/atx3_01.htm
Grandes Chroniques de France
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/atx2_05.htm
John of Berry's Petites Heures
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/atx3_02.htm
Book of the Hunt, by Gaston Phoebus
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/atx3_03.htm
The Breviary of Martin of Aragon
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/atx2_11.htm

Tres Riches Heures sites
http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/heures.html

I.Marc Carlson's shoe site
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM

"Some Clothing of the Middle Ages" by I. Marc Carlson
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html

Workers Clothing (From Books of Hours)
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/work/index.html

Useful pictures-- all times
http://mirror.bibl.u-szeged.hu/cgfa/

Books of Hours and other Manuscripts:
http://www.hmml.org/exhibits/gavin/gavin1/
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Jde/jde3.htm
http://www.hmml.org/exhibits/exhibits.html http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/s/simone/3assisi/martin_1/index.html
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Ee.3.59/bytext