Website updates

[mmcnealy]

Lots of website updates today!

I posted the new art research page on the The Schlappe, Burgher and Landsknecht styles and a new diary on the one I made, A Schlappe in the Military or Landsknecht style

As well as a large section with pattern drafting instructions on the How To's & Tutorials page.

Also! I've got a new Catalog page up where you can order a Schlappe. There will be more hats and caps for sale in the future.

Comments

[spikywheel.livejournal.com]

btw - I found a really fabulous recipe for a Potato /lentil salad w/ vinegar that is really yummy - kind of like hot german potato salad w/o the bacon fat (and it is gluten free!) lemme know if you want it.

[spikywheel.livejournal.com]

looks like I already did!

http://spikywheel.livejournal.com/157257.html

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Great! Now I don't have to bug you for the recipe. :D

I'll have to give it a try soon.

[penguininarmor.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I've been to your site and I'd forgotten how much it ROCKS.

Your hat articles reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while. I really want to make a hat like that one on the fresco of Sir John Hawkwood. Any ideas on materials and construction?

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
I'd have to do a lot more research, but I think the hat style is too late for 1300's Italy, its more similar to 1430's, which is when the fresco was painted.

1460's Milanese style
http://www.wga.hu/html/b/bembo/psforza1.html

For late 1300's style, try searching Web Gallery of Art, here's one sample from a Florentine artist.
http://www.wga.hu/html/a/andrea/firenze/1centra4.html

If you do still want to make this style, I'm guessing a padded roll sewn to the outside of a stiffened center tube. Cork is a possible stiffening agent, Henry VIII's hat of maintainence kept at Ware has this in the birm. The top is a larger fabric circle gathered into the top. I'd say a soft wool flannel, like B.Black and sons sells would work fine.