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Here's a link to a pattern:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... /SHOE2.HTM

http://companyofthestaple.org.au/forum/ ... p=354#p354

Just found this cool link

... fantastic. It has great illustrations for combat for the time period and some very original ideas I'd never heard of before. I found an on-line link to the original manuscript: http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/talhoffer1459/contents_body.htm Enjoy! :D

Hi Billy - nice link - Camden is an interesting study himself. Yes that's it exactly - I was familiar with William Camden's description and that is what rang a bell with me when I was looking over this thread. I agree that it was ...

The link provides primary source reference for those that really want to find the answer! Actually Froude's History of England from the fall of Wolsey (to the defeat of the Spanish armada) was published in 1863 and is therefore ...

The link provides primary source reference for those that really want to find the answer! Actually Froude's History of England from the fall of Wolsey (to the defeat of the Spanish armada) was published in 1863 and is therefore ...

The link provides primary source reference for those that really want to find the answer!

As to masons and their lack of ability to depict armour, well I dont buy it. BUT I do accept that artistic conventions are important and that may have influenced how the armour was represented

That is a detail of the Moy Gown as listed in Mairéad Dunlevy's, Dress in Ireland. The link below is to further information and a place where you can purchase the pattern. https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/the-moy-gown-an-irish-medieval-gown.php?s=&c=8&d=100&q=1&a=200&w=2 ...

Celtchar wrote:An excellent guide to early Gaelic clothing.

coblaith.net/EarlyGaelicDress/EarlyGaelicDress12bw.pdf

This is a good article. I posted the link to it on another thread.

... Mr Wiers books don't present truthfully and it is he who should feel awkward / embarrassed. For many people such books may be their only link to our country and culture and I'm just hoping to help upgrade the quality a bit. It is not my intention to upset him or anyone else for that matter ...