A couple of features on the new late 14th Century Cotte/Cotehardie I recently completed. Unlike the clothing earlier in the century, by the late 1300's, these coats had become so insanely fitted that one could barely move in it, with one commentator from the period saying that when men took them off, they looked akin to being skinned alive, rather than disrobed.
The coat has 48 hand-sewn cloth buttons and buttonholes, as well as rounded armhole sleeves, arm gores and as made from woad-dyed blue 2/2 wool twill.
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Some features on the recent 14th Century cloak I completed. Unlike earlier cloaks, which were often a simple square or rectangular piece of wool that was pinned at the shoulder, 14th Century cloaks became tailored garments, often with buttons for a more fitted neckline, and remains of a sewn-in dart on the opposing shoulder on the likes of the Bocksten cloak shows an even higher level of tailoring going into these pieces.
This particular cloak, made from 2/2 madder red-dyed wool, features both the dart on one shoulder, as well as hand-cast pewter buttons, based off an original from 14th Century England in the British Museum. |
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