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Welcome to my Guides pages.
These guides were begun with a view to sharing my knowledge with fellow re-enactors both in the local group 'Ulfstahm' and the national group 'The Vikings'. Sadly they only ever got published on the Ulfstahm website. Now though, I'm publishing them here. I hope they help to give people an insight into historical clothing manufacture and fashion!

General	Back to top
Colours	Details on the colours, fabrics and decoration styles used in the Dark-Ages
Fabrics
Decoration
Womens Head-dress throughout History
Timeline of Fabrics
Dictionary of Fabrics
Timeline of Colours
Timeline of Decoration

How to Make . . .	Back to top
An Early (Pagan) Anglo Saxon Costume (5th/6th C)
A Late Anglo Saxon Costume (10th/11th C)
A Toque	A 13th century piece of headwear, and how to make it
A Henin	A 14th century piece of headwear and how to make it
Tablet-woven Bands (Threaded-in Patterns)
Trollen Cord

Sewing Techniques	Back to top
Measuring and Materials	What you need to know before you begin.

Early (Pagan) Anglo-Saxon - 5th/6th Centuries	Back to top
Tube-Dresses	Archaeological, literary and scientific information about these garments.
Under-dresses
Trousers
Brooches and Pins
Belts

Late Anglo-Saxon - 10th/11th Centuries	Back to top
Wimpels	Archaeological, literary and scientific information about these garments.
Hats, Hoods and Hair
Under-dresses
Leg-bindings
Trousers

Plantagenet (Early Medieval)	Back to top

How to Wear . . .	Back to top
The 'Circle with Hole' Head-dress	A Late Saxon piece of headwear
The 'Wimple, Veil and Toque' Head-dress	A 13th century Plantagenet piece of headwear
The 'Wimple, Veil and Circlet with Earcoils' Head-dress	A 14th century hairstyle and head-dress

All the information used in these pages has been gathered from many sources and these have been noted in the text. I am grateful to all my friends within the re-enactment world for their input - some unknowingly as bits of information have been gleaned from simply talking about the subject.

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