Tools
(Note: Now at our new home at Make Renaissance Clothing!)
- Farthingale Calculator: Are you making your own farthingale or hoopskirt? The calculator on this page will tell you both the size of each row of boning and the length from the waist for each row for a farthingale, based on your own measurements!
Articles
- The Details of Men’s Court Fashions (pdf)
- Foreign Influences on Women’s Elizabethan Fashions (pdf)
- A Brief History of the Handkerchief in Europe during the Late Middle Ages through the Renaissance (pdf)
- A European History of the Parasol through the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (pdf)
Old Blog Posts
- 16th Century Portraits Project
- A Very Versatile Gown
- Royal Touches
- A History if Handkerchiefs: an Update
- Medieval Mittens
- Winter Warmth: Late Elizabethan Gloves
- Winter Warmth: The Elizabethan Nightcap
- Winter Warmth: Constructing the Elizabethan Nightcap, Part 1, Materials
- Winter Warmth: Constructing the Elizabethan Nightcap, Part 2, the Pattern
- Elizabethan Interiors: The Walls, Part 1
- Elizabethan Interiors: The Walls, Part 2
- Elizabethan Interiors: The Walls, Part 3
- Sweet Sgabelli!
- A Pair of Game-Boards
- Fun with Prunts
- Holiday Traditions: Wassailing
- Tales of Robyn Hood