Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Musée Condé, Chantilly

Book of Hours are a rich source of knowledge and information.  Since my persona in the SCA harkens from the region of France, I turn to Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry  Musée Condé, Chantilly.  You may be familiar with the series of Calendar photos such as the one below:

But this book has so much more than the 12 months we are familiar with - and I found a website which has all of them available to view.  The images can be blown up to see detail on the garments, and there is so much to see!  This website is definitely worth a browse.

Fantastic Persian Embroidery Resource

 

While doing some medieval persian research, I ran across this fantastic site which has tons of documented pieces of real medieval embroidery.  I particularly love the colors of this piece.  Information on this wall hanging is as follows:

:Embroidered Hanging; Eastern Iran or Afghanistan, 14th century; Polychrome embroidery;

This photograph appeared in a note about a textile gallery exhibit posted at the website for HALI, a publication devoted to oriental carpets and textiles.:

Enjoy!

12th Century House Built By Reenactment Group in Europe

 A little off topic, but a post off yet another of my favorite blogs.  This reenactment group built a medieval house!  I posted a picture of it below, along with the link:

http://stolte.wordpress.com/

A Beautiful Swedish Frilled Veil

 Medieval Silkwork is one of my favorite blogs.  It covers an impressive array of articles and finished photos regarding many finished period projects.  They made the fantastic frilled veil pictured below:

Finished: Swedish frilled veil