Vestments for a priest

As we're building a church for the Medieval Centre (!), we need to make vestments for a priest as well as other textiles for the church. The building of the church will take several years, so much of it can wait. But we've decided to make a small exhibition in the entrance hall involving an altar and a priest. So that can't wait. There will be a small publication made with the "church textiles", description of the sources, and of the things we have decided to make etc, but here are a few pictures of the first pieces.

If there is somebody out there with an interest in church textiles, please contact Cath on catharina.oksen@mail.dk

The amice is of white linen (flax) with a gold brocade band as parura, the strings are handwoven flax. Later we can make an amice with an embroidered parura, as the original. It was made by Susanne Bjørndahl Olsen.

The alb is of white linen, with pleated gores (they still need pleating), gold brocade bands etc., all hand sewn. It is inspired by an alb from München, Bayrisches Nationalmuseum, see the last picture. The parura - not in the picture, as it is not quite finished - is made in opus teutonicum in colored silk.

After that I need to make the maniple and the stole, Lars Sass will make the chasuble.

Hostie box

Hostie box for the upcoming church (and the exhibition in the hall this year). Agnus Dei, Lamb of God in freshwater pearls and couched gold thread on red silk velvet. The rim of the lid has a ribbon in silk brocade in red, blue and gold thread. Inside the box is lined with blue silk.

The first attempt was an Agnus Dei made on linen, cut out and glued to the velvet. Unfortunately some of the bone glue got on the perls, and the were ruined, had to start over again, this time directly on the velvet.

Særk med stropper

Den ærmeløse særk er nok den almindeligste i senmiddelalderen. Den kan være uden stropper, den kan et smalt skulderparti som en del af særken eller den kan have smalle påsyede stropper som på to af kildebillederne her og på den særk jeg lige har syet.

Særken er syet i en mellemkvalitet hvid hør. Stropperne er syet i hør, med armensk broderi i hør og guldtråd. Der er en lille snøre under venstre arm, det gør særken lettere at få på. Snøren er lavet i løkkeflet af hvid hør.

Nederst er påsyet en bort af silkebånd med guldbrokade.

Nogle kilder viser ornamenter nederst på særken, enten broderede eller påsyede. Se kildebillederne ovenfor.

The mayors new pouch

Silk on linnen. Motives on request from the buyer.

Silk brocade

Silk brocade and wowen bands in silk from Chennai.

Snoregaffel eller nulrestok

Dette lille fikse redskab til fremstilling af snore er der fundet enkelte eksemplarer af f

ra middelalderen. Farvefotoet viser to eksemplarer fra Nationalmuseet, et i træ og et i ben. Det sort/hvide foto er af et lollandsk fund fra tidlig middelalder. Genstanden i midten er i artiklen betegnet som en "knap", og de to yderste genstande som "snorevæve". Det er dyreknogler, hvor den ene ende er udskåret med tre spidser. Vi har lavet en kopi i en fåreknogle, og den fungerer fint som snoregaffel!

Dogs also uses textiles

This is Sigurd, a 12 week old broholmer (a medieval mastif) on his first day at work in the medieval town Sundkøbing.

His collar is made of a leather band, covered in blue silk velvet with brass studs and a gold band at the edges.

The lead is a tablet woven silk/wool band with brass clasp and a tassel. Carsten is wearing a matching belt.

New authentic patterns

Nordbomønstre, by Else Østergård.

Go and buy it, and remember to buy "Som syet til jorden" = Woven into the Earth, too!

Finally we have a lot of useful information about the medieval Greenland dresses. Just remember to check out the dating of the single dresses, as they span over quite a long time.

Try www.saxo.com or www.boghuset.dk or just google it for the best price.

Filthatte

Se her, hvad der kommer i butikken til næste år, i flere farver selvfølgelig:

New stuff for the museum shop next year. They will come in different colors and sizes!

Wear and tear

A well used under garment (særk). Note the wear at the neck, waist, vrist and lower hem. Also note the red color in the armpits from the wollen dress.

We follow all the wollen dresses and some of the under garments, to document traces of wear and tear.

Some of the results will be published at the Medieval Centres website

Waffenrock

Waffenrock, 1450, Lübeck

I'm kind of glad I'm in anno 1400, they are not so complicated yet

needle binding

Could somebody please try this link and see if it makes sense.

Just e-mail me with comments: cath@middelaldercentret.dk