A li’l something about the Hanseatic League
Hi peeps! I sometimes write for my company blog (www.albrechts.se) and today I posted a monster text about the Hanseatic League in Stockholm. Read it here.
Textilteknisk terminologi/ Textile technical terminology
Don’t miss out on this fab textile nerd dictionary historical textiles English within the text- Translated by Anna Lindemark, Lindemark Text Nordisk textilteknisk terminologi – Förindustriell vävnadsproduktion 1967 gav Elisabeth Strömberg, Agnes Geijer, Margrethe Hald och Marta Hoffman ut boken ”Nordisk textilteknisk terminologi- Förindustriell vävnadsproduktion”. Boken utgörs av en samling definitioner på svenska och synonymer…
Sleeping medieval – Soldiers, knights and travellers
Hi kids! It’s now time for another little thing on medieval beds. This time I will take a look at how people slept when on the road. As a starting point, I will look at so called ”Heerbedde” – an ”Army bed”, as it gives us some impression of what people on campaign used for…
Sleeping medieval – Monks, nuns and monastic knights
I had a look at the monastic rule for the monks, nuns and monastic knights from different times and locations to fins out more about how they slept. It is a somewhat specific setting, which not altogether applies to mundane conditions, but it should give us some hints on what was used – and what wasn’t…
A sideless surcote
I sometimes portrait the wife of a high ranking nobleman in Sweden. In the late 14th century the movers and shakers of their time did have access to fancy fabrics of high quality, even silks, so I thought it would have been accessible for a noblewoman, even in an outpost of Sweden. I bought a silk…
A quick tutorial on hose making
Take a piece of a sturdy cotton fabric and place it, on the bias, on your lower leg. Make sure the fabric is long enough to reach from you knee to under your foot. Pin the fabric on the backside of your leg and under your heal, to the middle of foot. Cut away the fabric…
