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Overview:

• Roman, Greek & Byzantine
• Eastern & Middle Eastern
• Viking
• Anglo Saxon, Celtic, Frankish & Early Medieval
• High Middle Ages
• Elizabethan & Tudor
• Renaissance & Italian

General Garb Links

Hair & Headdress

• Chaperons & How to Make Them - The Costumer's Manifesto
• Hair and Head-dresses - Middle ages/ European
• How To Make A Renaissance Hat ( men & women) - The Costumer's Manifesto flat caps 1525- c.1585
• How To Make A Quick Hat/Helm - Quick Leather Hat
• Italian Renaissance Hair Taping - Introduction by Margo Farnsworth:
• Medieval Clothing Pages: Hat & Hair articles by Cynthia Virtue
• My Balzos, And How I Made Them - 16th Century Italian
• Ribbon and Semi-Period (Hair taping and braiding) 
• The Auld Garb Monger's Free Sewing Projects - free hat projects
• Stefan's Florilegium - Medieval-Hair-lnks
• Tudor Gable Headdress Illustrated: Step by Step Directions - Hope Hall For The Humanities
• Upbraid Yourself and Others: The Basics of Braiding - A Workshop & Notes by Cynthia Virtue
• Viking Answer Lady on Hair: Viking Age Hairstyles, Haircare, and Personal Grooming
• Medieval Women's Headdress and Costume

Accessories

• Accessories in Kit's Hat box

Shoes

• Footware of the middle ages - I. Marc Carlson
• A Beginner's Addendum to Making Shoes
• A Shoe from Parliament Street - York Construction notes

Roman, Greek, & Byzantine

• Byzantine Mens costume - By Indunna
• Byzantium Exhibition - Met Museum
• The Basics of Byzantine dress c. 1000 AD
• Roman Costume  - citizen, matron, curule magistrate, emperor, general, workman, slave
• Roman Social Dress
• Links for costumes - Ancient Roman Empire Costume Links at The Costumer's Manifest

Eastern & Middle Eastern

• Muslim clothing from the Medieval Period

Norse & Viking

• http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikresource.html
• http://www.gelfling.dds.nl/wardrobe.html
• http://www.norseamerica.com
• http://users.bigpond.net.au/quarfwa/miklagard/Costume/Rus/Trader/kaftan_text.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/ravensteadhousehold/rsas.htm
• http://www.frojel.com/Documents/Document04.html
• http://sca-garb.freeservers.com/articles/cotehardie.html
• http://www.jomsb.org
• http://home.jtan.com/~cellio/vetr/vikingclothing.htm
• http://www.silverdor.org/viking/vikingad.html
• http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/secrets/vikindrs.htm
• http://www.historiska.se

 

Anglo Saxon, Celtic, Frankish & Early Medieval

• Early Irish Garb - Clothes, Jewellery, Armour, weaponry
• Frankish Costume - Photos of Bathilde's garments & Arnegunde's jewellery
• Regia Anglorum - Primarily Anglo-Saxon resources

 

Middle Ages

• German Costume
• Russian Costume
• Multiple patterns, periods & techniques

 

Elizabethan & Tudor

• http://branwen_rhydderch.tripod.com/attempts/index.html
• http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/index.html
• http://livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/tudorcostumes/welcome.html
• The Effigy Corset: A New Look at Elizabethan Corsetry

 

Renaissance & Italian

• The Renaissance Tailor: Recreating 16th & 17th Century Clothing - research, demonstrations etc
• http://www.taubenfeld.bravepages.com/
• http://www.modaruniversity.org/briana/Briana3.htm
• http://home.earthlink.net/~lizjones429/farsetto.html
• http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/15th/
• http://www.angelfire.com/zine/kiarapanther/garb/italian.html
• Hair Taping
• http://polaris.umuc.edu/~jthies/mcitalrennotes.html
• http://www.florentine-persona.com/
• Realm of Venus - excellent resource of images
• Italian Renaissance Gown Construction - by Mistress Leona Khadine d'Este
  and Mistress Enid d'Auliere