SpecificCostumes

Early (Pagan) Saxon - 410 to 650 AD	Middle Saxon - 650 to 850 AD	Religious Outfits	Late Saxon - 850 to 1066 AD	Viking Age - 789 to 1066 AD
Plantagenet (Early Medieval)	The Hundred Years War - 1337 to 1453 AD	The Wars of the Roses - 1399 to 1485 AD	For Commissioned Costumes refer back to The Business

Welcome to my Specific Costume pages.
These costumes have all been made by myself, to the best of my ability and I believe are 95% historically accurate. To this end I have used evidence from the archaeological record, manuscripts, art, and various other sources noted in my comments against each title. Needless to say, new information is coming to light all the time and I appreciate that as time progresses my costumes will be become less and less accurate!

I hope that these pages inspire you to have a go at making your own costume. Believe me it IS this easy.

Early (Pagan) Saxon - 410 to 650 AD	Back to top
Grave 33, Eriswell (female)	A costume reconstruction based on the grave goods of Burial No. 33 from the Eriswell cemetery, near Lakenheath, Suffolk.

Middle Saxon - 650 to 850 AD	Back to top
Middle Saxon Woman	Fully researched using pictoral, manuscriptial and archaeological evidence, accurate as at 2003.
Christian Princess - 8th Century	Fully researched using pictoral, manuscriptial and archaeological evidence, accurate as at 2003.

Religious Outfits	Back to top
Benedictine Monk - c900 AD	Fully researched using pictoral, manuscriptial and archaeological evidence, accurate as at 1998.
Early Nun - c900AD	Conjectural costume, based on ideas given certain evidence from the period, using period materials and techniques.

Late Saxon - 850 to 1066 AD	Back to top
Anglo-Saxon Nobleman - 10th/11th Century	Fully researched using pictoral, manuscriptial and archaeological evidence, accurate as at 1998.
Anglo-Saxon Noblewoman - c1000 AD	Fully researched using pictoral, manuscriptial and archaeological evidence, accurate as at 1998.
Anglo-Saxon Warrior - c1000 AD	Partly researched using pictoral, manuscriptial and archaeological evidence, accurate as at 1998. (Weapons made by someone else so unsure of accuracy.)

Viking Age - 789 to 1066 AD	Back to top
Viking Noblewoman - 10th/11th Centuries	Fully researched using pictoral, manuscriptial and archaeological evidence, accurate as at 1998.
Viking Woman - c800 AD	Conjectural costume, based on ideas given certain evidence from the period, using period materials and techniques.

Plantagenet (Early Medieval)	Back to top
Norman Noblewoman - 1154-89	Based on a conjectural picture, but using materials and techniques from the period.

The Hundred Years War - 1337 to 1453 AD	Back to top
Lady Margaret de Walsoken - 1349 AD	Taken from a picture based on a brass rubbing of the same in St. Margaret's church, King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Male Courtier - 14th Century
Female Courtier - 14th Century

The Wars of the Roses - 1399 to 1485 AD	Back to top
Medieval Artisan (male) - 15th Century AD	Conjectural costume, based on ideas given certain evidence from the period, using period materials and techniques.
Medieval Artisan (female) - 15th Century AD	Conjectural costume, based on ideas given certain evidence from the period, using period materials and techniques.
Plantagenet (Yorkist) Noblewoman - 1461-70	Conjectural costume, based on ideas given certain evidence from the period, using period materials and techniques.

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