Whilja' s Corner

This is a throwback to a linen dress I made in 2010, and a retrofitting I then did in 2015.

A vest probabaly made out of leather to protect the clothes, commonly seen in Landsknecht woodcuts.

After I made my first pair of socks (read more here), a friend posted pictures of a a pair of short linen socks found at Regensburg Historisches Museum in Germany.

While working with the latest Tellerbarret and its feathers, a type of landsknecht hats seems to be covered with fluffy feathers poking almost straight out on the brim and at each top, decorated with a tip of some kind.

An inventory in the Textiler Hausrat mention a fabric covered straw hat, and I decided to try the technique by doing a specific kind of Tellerbarret.

A friend asked me to make her a feather for her Elevation outfit and this is the end result; It contains no less then 3 ostrich feathers, each hand curled, stitched together and decorated with filigree decoration on both ends and along the stem.

1) Lets tie this hat to the head The Graf woodcut shows some kind of cord thread through the brim and tied on top of the head and the woodcuts also shows the same construction on both men and women.

(Urs Graf 1517 Since the whole dress on my woodcut isn’t really visible and doesn’t provide any specific details, I collected woodcuts made by Urs Graf, and sorted them into chronological order to better get an idea of the evolution of a Swiss dress from…

Finish tabards for Team Sweden for this years Medieval Combat in Polen Watch the promotion video of this years fight here Team Swedens home page

The quick and dirty introduction of who’s who; Until 1490 the Swiss were the superior warriors of Europe, and Swiss instructors was imported to tech German soldiers how to fight, forming a new group of mercenaries in Europe, the Landsknechts.