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masks, historical edition
Jun. 4th, 2023 07:48 pmI'm heading to Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium later this month. It's an indoor, class-focused event, so I've been thinking about how to make pre-1600 clothing that conceals a modern KN-95 mask.
One option is ancient Greek garb! There's an excellent book by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones called Aphrodite's Tortoise that describes the many different styles of veils worn by Greek women (and occasionally by Greek men). You can see one example of a bronze statuette where a dancer wears a long mantle over a face-mask at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I decided to make a tegidion. The word means "little roof," and Llewellyn-Jones hypothesizes that it referred to a style of veil that could be flipped back over the head to make a pointed hat.
Turns out it works!
One option is ancient Greek garb! There's an excellent book by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones called Aphrodite's Tortoise that describes the many different styles of veils worn by Greek women (and occasionally by Greek men). You can see one example of a bronze statuette where a dancer wears a long mantle over a face-mask at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I decided to make a tegidion. The word means "little roof," and Llewellyn-Jones hypothesizes that it referred to a style of veil that could be flipped back over the head to make a pointed hat.
Turns out it works!