Welcome to my library of articles on a variety of 14th- and 15-century western European clothing and accessory topics.
Charles de Blois pourpoint and grande assiette tailoring
- The tailoring of the grande assiette
- The elbow hinge of the Charles de Blois pourpoint
- Cut to pieces by a determined tailor
Embroidered French alms purses
- Aumônières — embellished textile purses of the French 14th century
- An aumônière as it may have appeared in Paris, in 1380
Fitted dresses in 14th-century western Europe
- How I stopped worrying and learned to love layers
- The versatile dress layer
- The elusive feminine “cotehardie”
- Fitting for bust support: how I started
- Comparison between curved-front fitting and straight-front fitting
- Fitting the belly: a curve celebrated in medieval tailoring
