Costume Links
Tudor and Elizabethan
(1485-1603)- Working Womens' Dress in 16th Century Flanders
- Florentine Dress: 1500-1525, notes on style and construction
- History of the Elizabethan Corset
- making nurmberg dress the protrait of a young lady by Neufchatel, 1561
- clothing in a 16th century german women's wardrobe
- Elizabethan Smocks, research and construction notes
- Tuscan Camicia 16th century, research and construction notes
- what is the white band on tudor gowns?
- Tudor Effigies Research Image Library
- tudor England Images
- marquise
- The Weiss Gallery
- Eme's Compendium
- Burgundian-Costume
- Olga's gallery: Cranach
- Itallian gowns
- tudor gowns
- c15 flemish dress
- elizabethan portraits
- 16c spanish (court) fashion
- elizabethangeek.com
- The Costume Gallery
- The Renaissance Tailor has a selection of manuscripts and patterns
- The Costumer's Manifesto
- the faces of Elizabeth I a collection of portraits
Whole web-sites, blogs
Headware
- french hoods
- a gable headdress
- tudor bonnets
- 16th Century German Woman's Hats
- Instructions on how to wrap medieval headcoverings
- Womens Caps blog
- how to make a coif
- A crowning glory, Hairstyles and Headwear In Venice from the realm of venus web-site
- instructions for two elizabethan hairstyles from the extreme costuming web-site
- how to makea caul and a Flemish coif from the sempstress web-site
- Making an elizabethan flat-cap and tall-hat from the renaissance tailor web-site
- Italian Renaissance Hair Taping
Additional Sources
- Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates orbis terrarum, more medieval maps
- The earliest known printed book of costumes, Richard Breton's Recueil de la diversite des Habits, Paris 1562 with more than 100 illustrations attributed to Enea Vico
- Omnium poene gentium imagines,Bruynus digital collection from the University of Washington
- landsknechte woodcuts
- Braun & Schneider
- Cesare Vecellio's work on the web
- Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres
- Tempus' has a whole load of images: Norris, Cunnington, Yarwood etc
- Wiegel's costume woodcuts (Bavarian pre 1577)
- J. Hoefnagel maps these medeival maps have people painted in the margins
- UK church monument society
- Brasses on the internet
Anglo-Saxon and Viking dress
(450-1066)Embroidery
- Drachenwald embroidery blog
- pdf period embroidery stitches
- Anglo-Saxon embroidery a pdf
- embroidery from the Tenth Century Viking Grave at Mammen Denmark
- historical needlework resources site with links to existant examples of needlework
Norman and the Medieval period
(1066-1485)- 10th and 11th Century Clothing in England: A Portfolio of Images
- medieval jewelry
- Norman re-enactors (French!)
- Clothing of Norman Women in the Late 11th and Early 12th Centuries
- Bliauts, Broad Skirts and Belled Sleeves: making the court dress of 12th century Western Europe
- Blog of someone making a Bliaut
- Bliaut
- Introduction to Twelfth Century Western European Clothing for Women and Men
- Bliaut, research and construction notes
- Bliaut, research and construction notes
Byzantine costume
(330AD-1453)- Alb of William II of Sicily
- Blue Dalmatic from Sicily
- coronation mantle of Roger II of Sicily
- more on the coronation mantle from the german museum
- A Clothing How-To for Garments of the Byzantine Empire plain text notes
- The Byzantine World list of links
- Byzantine re-enactors good articles on their website
- Eastern Textiles pre-1200 a flicker collection of images
- Female Turkish Garb
Mongol costume
- LACMA the legacy of Genghis Khan awesome!
- links to museums with silk road art
- The ll-Khanids The David Collection, items plus an existant caftan 1st half of 14th century
- Hunan Provincial Museum
- Mactaggart Art Collection University of Alberta
- Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan Asian Art Museum, SF,1995.
- search "mongol" at bridgeman images
- Yamantaka Mandala with imperial portraits at the Met Museum New York
- Ren Renfa Persian historian, wrote an important history of the mongol empire
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani an important Chinese artist of the period
- Mongol online stores Armstreet, NYCMongol, Nomadic Art
Haberdashery in London
- MacCulloch and Wallis just off Oxford street, W1S 1AT, the store is a mess and the staff are unhelpful, but if you like burrowing through piles of stuff ...
- John Lewis's in London but the range of stock will be very limited
- Kleins just off Oxford street, W1F 8GD, haven't tried them yet
- Chimera costumes