Ursula

I'm done substituting as a linear algebra instructor for the summer, and all I have left to worry about is the wedding & dissertation research and maybe the department's fall picnic, so of course I'm doing my level best to come up with unrelated projects.

I've been doing a little bit of research into c. 1320 clothing for glasseye. For some reason, the early fourteenth century is very unpopular in costuming circles. It looks to me as if the characteristic garment is a fairly baggy tunic, somewhere between knee-length and ankle-length (working men prefer the shorter version), with sleeves that are loose at the upper arm and become very tight toward the wrist.

14th century effigies:

http://www.themcs.org/costume/14th%20century%20Male%20Clothing.htm

(If you look at the women's clothing on the same site, there are some images from the 1320s which clearly show a tunic with tight buttoned sleeves and a looser shorter-sleeved overtunic.)

Stowe 17 manuscript, produced in Liege c. 1310-20:

Apes at school:

http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=063109&imagex=18&searchnum=3

Musicians & knights jousting:

http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=064595&imagex=20&searchnum=3

Man chasing bees:

http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=002517&imagex=1&searchnum=3

God of Love, musicians, lovers:

http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=063439&imagex=19&searchnum=3

c. 1326 French manuscript:

http://classes.bnf.fr/ema/grands/ca001.htm

Two images of Saint Eligius from the first half of the 14th century, from Karen Larsdatter's collection at http://larsdatter.com/goldsmiths.htm :

http://ark.bnf.fr/ConsulterElementNum?O=IFN-8100137&E=JPEG&Deb=91&Fin=91&Param=C

http://ark.bnf.fr/ConsulterElementNum?O=IFN-8100139&E=JPEG&Deb=75&Fin=75&Param=C

The second Saint Eligius image clearly shows buttons from wrist to elbow. Anyone have suggestions for cutting a sleeve like this? I'm assuming it's more or less a rectangular construction trapezoid? What about places to buy buttons?

I was going to go to Portland this weekend. I made it to a truck loading zone just off the James St. exit, downtown Seattle, where I called glasseye and AAA. glasseye found my spare tire, and the AAA towtruck driver jacked up my car with his fancy jack and told me where to find more air-- and then followed me to the gas station to warn me that my brake lights weren't working. So no more car for me, until we fix the brake lights (I'm hoping a connection has just been knocked loose) and pay someone to put a new tire on this rim.