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Would you mind sharing the spelling of the manuscript so I might look it up? TIA!!

I love all of the looks! Wonderful work! And yes, she's very cute! Hugs

Nice to see you again! I want your green wool dress!

oh.... the swoooooosh .... i love t! And: Never apologize for life. You give us so much joy, so it´s always worth waiting. I am glad you are okay (and the cat. And the chair ;-) ) And of course, buttons, yes please

looooooove this series! wasn't aware it was THE sewing through the ages series until the second-to-last sentence in the video though :D and then the memories came back lolol

Gorgeous

This is just what I needed. Thank you so much for a very clear demonstration.

I love this!

A friend - an archaeologist interested in textiles did point out in relation to where the brooches should be worn that the few scraps they have found with them are of straps - or they think they were straps - therefore the odds on them being used as ''n1pple shields'' [her description] were probably slightly on the low to non-existent side. Though she did point out that people are people and even in those days you will always have had the rebel who decided to wear something in a different way and she doubted the Scandinavians were any different in that regard. So there is every chance you might find someone - image or grave - wearing a mini 'dress' with brooches and a thigh high slit for good measure just because .............. Also 'vikings' covered a huge area from modern Russia right down to modern Turkey, lots of clothing options in that range so there's a good chance a woman from modern Norway isn't wearing the same a one from modern eastern Russia or one from modern Turkey. That's the fun of historical clothing though, plus the fact that they would mix with the locals and adapt their clothing styles as well. That's what made them so interesting, and probably also so successful.

Hi, You my lady look beautiful in those clothes. I can't quite see if the fabric is woven, but I assume it is? A white outer dress doesn't defy the laws of historical dress, I think. It must have been a chore to get any stains out of it, should she spill some wine or food on it, so it's oozing money right there, even if they had laborers that was only paid food and boord (aka slaveish conditions. It wasn't quite abolished up here yet, but it was on it's way out, as previously discussed. I believe that it stuck around longer on the continent and in the British Isles.) Question is: did they bleach the cloth or could they color it white at that time? I would argue, with my nonexistent knowledge of anything, that they would likely bleach the cloth with sunlight. It must have taken ages, so of course the dress was very exclusive (and if you can't guess what my profession used to be from that statement, dear reader, I can't help you). I wish you would have had the time to show how you sewed the underdress and this bleo (is that the right word, I wonder). I have never seen a bleo being sewn and I'm guessing that the under dress must have been narrower too so it wouldn't show to much. Quite unlike what happened 400 year-ish years later, where it was fancy, and would show. I, at least, would have found it interesting to see or hear the a discussion about the choices available, and if it was done that way. There are so many things I haven't seen yet and find interesting, so don't mind me though. You must have the patience of a saint, making all that trim. I can call that after seeing you set up the whatever it's called, and my guess is that it was only one of many. I can hardly wait to see what the fashion was in 1266. I really like your sweater by the way. The knitted lace is so beautiful. Yours, Ann

That wool fabric looks so snuggly and comfortable 😻

This is such a cool dress! I honestly think of Maid Marion 🥰

Beautiful! I think you nailed it, and the tablet weaving touches are chef's kiss! Wonderful work! Hugs

Eleanor of Aquitaine wore a white bliaut with tablet woven trim, so I wore a white bliaut with tablet woven trim!

YESSSSSSSSS QUEEN!!!! ❤

John William Waterhouse women. That's how I picture them when you say it that way.

Beautiful!

I love it! And the braid weaving was beyond impressive. Good job!

She wields the sword as confidently and expertly as needle and thread. Chapeau! So beautiful, and that wool... sheer gorgeousness. Thank you for yet another riveting history lesson. Where were you when i had to sitt in school, being bored out of my skull by my history teacher??

Love it! It's so pretty!

What pattern did you use?

A girdle may help.

I love your way of presenting the history!!

This is an excellent example of the hussy and trollop of 1066.

I was wondering if you were going to mention the why royals having no direct heirs was a problem, or rather what problems that caused (civil war or international war), and you didn't disappoint. Lol I've not yet made an outfit from any medieval time period but I have one in mind (around 1390s), so following your journey of this multi-part project is both great fun and informative.

Love the title

This is the first video of yours I’ve seen, and I’ve instantly subscribed! I love fashion history, and this video had plenty of both! I’ll definitely be catching up with your content. Super excited about the three Viking dresses video. It struck me that I’d never connected the dots between William the Conqueror’s privatization of the forests and the fact that Robin Hood and his Merry Men living in the Forest is what made them criminals. I taught world history for 18 years and knew about all the facts, but hadn’t put it together with the Robin Hood myth. I’ve probably seen just about every modern iteration of Robin Hood, but my first love is the 🦊 Robin Hood from the Disney movie, lol.

Wait….did you make a “Norway nul pointes” joke?! 😂 Seriously loving your videos since I discovered the channel. A big part of it is the history behind it all and it’s fascinating. Also, where do you get your fabrics from? I have a number of pieces I want to make and I’m struggling to find what I need, especially the kind of broadcloth I could make an 18th century cloak out of.

I sang contralto with a Madrigal choir in the 1970's. I sewed dark red medieval hoods for us to wear with our solid blue, or green or teal mini-dresses. Scandalous!

How are the sleeves attached? I've looked at a lot of images and while some appear to have a sort of set-in sleeve others appear to have sleeves cut as part of the design - dolman sleeve style - and looking at those worn by re-enactors [and there are some truly beautiful Norman clothes out there worn by re-enactors] they also appear to have some as a part of the garment and others as possibly sewn in. I confess to liking the dolman style and all my house dresses are made this way [was taught by a friend from Pakistan, this is how many dresses/abayas/? are made apparently as it is quick and easy to cut and sew] and making a winter dress out of wool in this style certainly appeals. Hence the question, not having to set in sleeves definitely appeals to me and while mine wouldn't be as loose as yours [not practical when using a walking frame, the hems tend to get caught up so I make them narrower] a slightly more fitted version of what you are wearing out of wool has a very definite appeal. Can't wait for the next video.

Ultimately William was the better King Harold would have continued to support slavery of his subjects [the Saxons definitely kept slaves] while King William I passed laws making slavery on English soil illegal [not sure if he was the first to do so but must have one of the first to do so as slavery was rampant even in those times in large parts of the world] which - even though it was primarily done for monetary reasons and not out of genuine compassion for the slaves - had to be a good thing. I remember reading the Georgette Heyer book about William when I was at school [The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer, not only a good read but she did a lot of research for the book as well] and I've had a soft spot for him ever since. Probably not a nice man - by today's standards at least - but the man for the time in question. And that is what counts.

I love that name 'Aelfgiva'. I also love watching your videos! You are a natural at this and there is so much to learn...only 3 women on The Bayeux Tapestry!! (your cough.....embroidery..........make me laugh) and yet it was made by women!! Great dress for winter at home ......on the couch with a book by the sound of the weight of it 😂 I have some that are weight lifting territory too!! Can wait for the next one!! XXX

It's such a bizarre period of history that had such a massive impact. The difference in research, both more traditional disciplines but also in areas such as textile history which now have far more academic weight, has developed understanding so much further than the lessons I oringinally sat through 40 years ago at school. Battle is an interesting place to visit if you get the chance (guess what happened there!) it's a thought provoking battle ground to walk as it's on a hill - and of course we should never forget it gave the English their love of over the top administration by introducing the Doomsday Book, which is how I know I am currently sitting in a house on the land whose tenant was Ranulf brother of Ilger 938 years ago. Weird.

That Edward dude was a big medieval troll.

Hi, Where there are women there are usually naughty clerics aplenty*. Not necessarily coming down through history though, since women's history are told mostly by clerics. Historically speaking. (*Wisdoms by Ann) The next part of Fashion Of The Middle Ages. Thank you. How little of how the women lived that has survived. We didn't play that big a part in history, apparently. Or maybe we're back to the case of history being recorded by the clergy, and them having limited access to women? At least perhaps they didn't want to leave any evidence of their knowledge of women. In this part we are outside my fudged together historical knowledge. We were in a fairly warm part of history here, though a few more centuries until peak thaw out, if I remember things right. So winter clothing most likely? Immediately I want to start questioning everything, but I shall restrain myself, since there is no real knowledge to be had here, unfortunately, but conjecture and you are building a very good case. The only things that can really be deduced here is that her gown seems longer than the clergyman's (brown munk?), and that the sleeves were worn long that year. I saw red markings down the front of the gown. I just read that the Bayeux tapestry was ready A.D 1076, which is quite amazing. That's 7 meters of embroidery per year. I wonder how many people worked on it. Are there theories about those, you know? I'm thinking about Iconographs from the 11th and 12th centuries. Can we learn anything from them? I remember that in the church of the small town I grew up in, there was an 12th century statue of the Virgin Mary, even though the baby had been removed at the Reformation. I was about 7-10 at the time so I don't remember more than a vague shape, but I also remember being so taken in by the idea of the people that were going to church back then and how that would have felt. This was all the way up at the north in the bay of Bothnia, and for some reason I haven't ever been back. I think somebody broke in that church and tried to destroy that figure and another one from the 14th century, but I have no idea what happened to them. Another thing altogether. Are those Wilkinson's Fabric Shears you're using? If they are, how do you like them? I know it's completely irrelevant, but I've been looking at them for a while but haven't found anyone who can tell me if they are worth the cost. I'm using Fiskars at the moment and they are good, and light. Maybe a heavier pair would suit me better. Anyway. I can't wait to get the next article of Middle Age Fashion Magazine. Yours, Ann I just googled the church and that statue and she is still there. The younger one isn't mentioned and I can't find her with a cursory google. She is believed to come from the area around Rehn in today's Germany, and she is from (romansk) pre gothic times, and believed to have been in a (romansk) wooden church on the same place as today's church, of 1796-99. Back when I lived there it was believed that the church is standing on an old "Blotplats" (Translates gives me nothing, sorry) (Hon kallas Skellefteå Madonnan, och kyrkan kallas Skellefteå landskyrka. Ingen i staden uttalar namnet som det skrivs. Man tar bort å (aa), och det gäller i princip alla ortsnamn i norra Sverige.

Goodness, so much history, I have to watch that again. Could not take it all in in one go :) The dress looks really very extra comfy, lounge wear deluxe.. I see myself wearing that cuddled up on the chaiselongue, knitting. And all the neat handstitching... just marvellous! Thank you for this great episode! All the best from Germany Su / Pinguinpullover

Wearing the brooches like Madonna doesn’t make sense. 🙄 People have always been people and maybe for a ceremonial outfit but not on the day to day. Geez Louise.

I am putting together a Viking kit and I am unsure if they used an undertunic (shift/chemise equivalent) in addition to the sark and smokkr. I realize that , especially from the scanty evidence, there's probably no way to know but what is your best guess? Love the video. It's so nice to have your clear explanations and the delightful swishy modeling of the different styles.

I love your speaking voice btw Also did you really sew all those by hand?! They all look beautiful! I love how a lot of earlier clothing like this uses relatively simple and accessible techniques, yet still looks gorgeous, comfortable, and practical

Hej, So that's an origin story about the ahrumm... dance belt?... Oh come off it Me! My country thrives on ice hockey... the codpiece... so there, I said it... I would never have thought of in a million years. I wish I knew how I could fact checked that, without blushing, (never mind me, I'm weird and I know it) but why not. It's the sort of story that might have some truth to it, at least if the article of clothing travelled towards the English speaking world. As obviously the fish has a different word in Norwegian, and possibly every other language too. We know it as torsk, as ours didn't come from Barents Sea. We could still find it in them in the Baltic Sea when I was a kid (very many moons ago, obviously) and, on very rare occasions indeed, in the Bay of Bothnia where I did a lt of my growing up. For the non-Scandis, that's as far north as you can come and still claim you are from a coastline in Sweden and Finland. As I have been going through some of you other videos too, I love how your boyfriend proudly hung them on his closet door. You can make jewelry out of your deceased loved one's hair again. You can grow diamonds in a lab from human hair these days. And if you are triggered by talks about death, my advice is that you stop reading here. My best friend who lived in the US passed away from pancreatic cancer in February, and since she had a severe lack of family and friends, I was there to see her off (I was there when she was diagnosed in November too, but that's another story). Her adult son and I were dealing with the funeral (he was the only other person, and we were both there together), and the funeral home told us that they fingerprinted all their loved ones so that you could order a piece of jewelry with a fingerprint or a part of one, at any point (I haven't yet, it's all too soon for me). As there were only the two of us we noped a funeral, and we already knew her wish was direct cremation in any case. We decided to say goodby right before, at the crematorium. It was absolutely perfect for us, and it was absolutely beautiful. After saying goodby the lady from the funeral home wanted us to sit for a little while before we braved the traffic, and whilst sitting there we saw an very discrete ad that you could take hair from your loved one and have it pressed into man made diamonds, grown in a lab. We both wish we had known of it beforehand, but it felt wrong to ask them: hold on we want this please. Especially since I think it was already to late, by the sound of things, (and never tell her son this). We cut a piece of her hair at the Hospice after she passed away, but it's too little to grow a diamond from. The lock of hair is with him at a sort of memorial space in his apartment now, together with her ashes (we're going to spread those later), and a small decorative urn with a few ashes that is going to be interred into an US Army Memorial Wall, as she was a veteran. Well that went somewhere rather quickly. My apologies. For those thinking this is macabre, it's very much not so toth two of us. Her son and I have become the very best of friends, and both of us view this experience as one of the most beautiful of our lives. For me it's on par with when my DH and I got married (we never had any kids). It was the absolutely perfect way for us. Well, I have again used up a lot of words, and we came from dance belts to this. I hope you don't mind too much and that it's not TMI, but as you already warned people, and so did I, I hope I haven't caused too much harm onto the unsuspecting. Vänligen, Ann

I love your thimble, I didn’t know there are leather thimbles

Thank you for the well-reasoned information. I believe that embroidery on clothing, on a simple tunic, was the first form of clothing decoration. If a woman uses several types of stitches, then their combination turns into embroidery and becomes more complex over time. Therefore, I allow for complex embroidery in the manufacture of clothing for women of the early Viking period.

Hi, I was intrigued enough to go scavenger hunting in your past, but I'll be brief. What a lovely blue color on you. When you put it to your face you were glowing, and the color of your eyes really popped. Would a ladies maid be wearing those bright colors? I'm going by the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs from the early to mid 1970's by the ITV, that depicts a much later part of history, an have no real knowledge about the 1830's. Yours, Ann

I like the blue dress the best. Did people have to make their own clothes or were there people who made them? I would trade a couple of piglets for a new dress if I were back in those days.

I am pretty sure whatever they wore...it was practical...and probably warm. It was cold during the middle ages.

Hello! I'm new to your channel and happy to say I'm a new subscriber. I'm wondering about the braided cord and the tool you used to make it. If you would be so kind, will you consider creating a tutorial video of that process? If not, are you able to point me in the right direction for learning that? I love everything fiber-arts related. No worries if the answer is no, I just found it intriguing! Thank you, either way. I scrolled through some of your channel's previous content and it looks like I will have hours of newly-found joy in my future. Hugs

Very pretty dress.

This is my favorite thing I've watched!! Beautiful and informative! I can't even decided which is my favorite.... That gathering is amazing 🤗

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