Het moest niet zo'n wannabe rijkeluisding zijn zoals sommige reenacters die pogen te maken (niet kloppend patroon, tinnen knopen, e.d.), maar een die écht die welvaart uitbeeldt en die de Deventer koopman anno 1370 waarschijnlijk ook alleen maar zondags of tijdens andere speciale gelegenheden zou hebben gedragen.
Ik ben nu bijna klaar met het verzamelen van de benodigdheden. Een mooie kleur en niet al te dik of dun stuk wollen stof had Isis nog liggen. Daarnaast wilde ik naar aanleiding hiervan in bronnen de onderste rand van de kaproen versieren met een goudbrokaten zijden bandweefsel. Hiertoe heb ik een stuk bandweefsel door Gina Barett laten maken, gebaseerd op een laat 14e eeuwse vondst uit Deventer. De door Bractea gemaakte 15 zilveren vergulde knoopjes (die vandaag werden bezorgd!) zijn custom made replica's van 1350-1400 knoopjes uit de schat van Karlstejn. Nu rest mij alleen nog fijn wollen of zijden stof vinden voor de voering van de kaproen en het bestellen van zijden garen ter afwerking van het geheel.
Het ijle winterzonnetje van vandaag heb ik gebruikt om de al verworven materialen - stof, bandje en knoopjes - op de gevoelige plaat vast te leggen:
Past August I got the idea to make a expensive hood for my well off merchant persona to wear on feastdays, a hood with front opening and button closure. I wanted it to surpass the wannabe stuff with wrong fit and pewter buttons that many people tend to make.
I am almost ready collecting all the needed materials. I got a lovely colour piece of woolen cloth from Isis for the outside. I still have to decide on the lining, wool or silk. Next to that I wanted, in accordance with mentions of this in written sources, to decorate the lower border of the hood with a gold brocade silk band. To this purpose Gina Barett made me a gold brocaded replica of a late 14th c. find of a piece of a brocade silk band from Deventer itself. The fifteen buttons, made by Bractea, are silver and gilded and replica's of 1350-1400 buttons in the hoard of Karlstejn. Now all I have to do is get fabric for the lining and order silk yarn for the finishing touch like the buttonholes.
The little bit of sun we had today in this chilly winter was enough to make some nice shots of the materials I already have - outside fabric, band and buttons.
It really looks great Bertus - What are your plans for it? (I don´t read dutch very well so I thought I´d ask ;0))
ReplyDeleteWow - it really looks great Bertus. Will be interesting to see how it turns out!
ReplyDeleteHi Louise! Excuse me for only seeing your comment just now.
ReplyDeleteMy plans are to make a tight fitting hood with these materials. The gold brocade band (width 1,2 cm) is meant to decorate the lower border. The front of the hood will have an opening which can be closed by means of the silver gilded buttons (diameter 1 cm). I've just ordered 3 more of those buttons since I feel the 12 I have now allow for too much spacing in between.
I was considering writing my blog posts in English from now on. Maybe I should. :)
ReplyDeleteSounds really great - love the look of the buttons. Are they for find?
ReplyDeleteSorry that I posted twice but I couldn´t get the computer to do it right - so I thought.
It would be lovely if you posted in english - the things that you make are very relevant and it is nice to learn about your way of seing things and also hearing about things from Nederlands.
The brocaded band is based on a late 14th c. find from Deventer which was not in gold but only silk.
ReplyDeleteAs I could not find any finds of late 14th c. buttons in the Low Countries and I wanted to do something else than copy the obvious finds from London, I took to having replicas made of buttons in the socalled Karljstein hoard (1350-1400) from Bohemia. Since Deventer had trading relations with towns as far as near Leipzig in eastern Germany I thought it could be plausible for me to have them.