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I am always on the lookout for more period books to read. Until I get copies of more period books and type in some of the references to clothing, you'll have to be content with Chretien de Troyes.Women's Clothing |
"...the lady came out as did her daughter, who was clothed in a flowing shift of fine cloth, white and pleated. Over it she wore a white dress; she had no other clothes." |
| "The queen promptly... had brought to her the new bliaut and a mantle of the rich green cloth with the crossed pattern... The man to whom she had given the order brought her the mantle and the bliaut, which was lined with white ermine - even in the sleeves. At the wrists and neck there were, clearly visible, more than two hundred marks of beaten gold, and gems of great presence - violet and green, deep blue and grey-brown - were everywhere set upon the gold." |
| "The mantle was superbly fine: at the collar there were two sables, and an ounce of gold in the fasteners, on one side there was a jacinth, and a ruby on the other... The lining was of white ermine... The rich cloth was meticulously worked with different criss-cross designs - violet and red and indigo, white and green, blue and yellow. The queen requested some ribbons made from five ells of silken thread wound round with gold. ...she had the ribbons attached at once to the mantle." |
| "...Guivret had two gowns made of two different silken fabrics, one lined with ermine and the other with miniver. One was of deep blue oriental silk and the other of striped brocade, which his cousin had sent him as a present from Scotland." |
Men's Clothing | "...King Arthur... gave each of them... three pairs of mantles to improve the appearance of his court. The king was very powerful and generous: he did not give mantles made of serge, nor of rabbit or dark-brown wool, but of samite and ermine, of whole miniver and mottled silk, bordered with orphrey, stiff and rough. |
| "...the king arose and made ready: to go into the forest he put on a short bliaut." |
| "Garras... came with five hundred knights clad in costly silks, mantles, and stockings and fitted bliauts." |
| "...he was dressed in a fur-lined mantle and a bliaut of noble, patterned silk that had been made in Constantinople. He had put on silken stockings, very finely made and tailored; he was well-set in his stirrups and wearing golden spurs..." |
| "Each [of the knights] recieved a shimmering gown of rich Alexandrian silk... according to his wishes and taste." |
| "...noble and honorable men with fur-lined mantles trimmed with sable..." |
| "...Erec's robe was made, fashioned and woven with golden thread. The fur lining that was sewn into it was from strange beasts that have completely blond heads and necks as black as mulberries and backs that are bright red on top, with black bellies and indigo tails. Such beasts are born in India, and are called berbiolettes ...there were four stones on the fasteners. On one side were two chrysolites and on the other two amethysts, which were set in gold." |
Banners, Gifts, Non-clothing Items | "...he sent him five packhorses, rested and well-fleshed, loaded with clothing and cloth, with buckram and scarlet, with gold marks and silver bullion, vair and miniver and sable and precious oriental fabrics." |
| "...they were given beautiful gifts: clothes of vair and ermine, of rabbit and rich purple cloth, of fur-trimmed scarlet or silk." |
| "...he ordered the horns to be blown and the streets to be adorned with tapestries and silken sheets..." |
| "...[the streets] were hung above with tapestries of leafy-patterned silk and samite." |
| "...she sat upon a silken cushion which had come from Thessaly..." |
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