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Down the Rabbit Hole, with Glee

I ran across an incredible resource today, and wanted to share. Huzzah, Woo-hoo & Wow! Check out the exhaustive list of Medieval flavored topics included therein:

ANIMALS

  • Birdcages

  • Beehives

  • Bonnacons

  • Catching butterflies

  • Camels

  • Cats

  • Chickens

  • Dog collars & leashes

  • Elephants

  • Giraffes

  • Hedgehogs

  • Mousetraps

  • Ostriches

  • Pelicans

  • Porcupines

  • Sheep-shearing

  • Squirrels

  • Trained bears

  • Unicorns

ARTS & INDUSTRIES

  • Archers

  • Archery quivers and arrow cases

  • Archery targets

  • Construction

  • Watermills & windmills

  • Sailors

  • English-language index to the trades in Das Ständebuch

  • Agriculture

  • Harrows

  • Ploughs

  • Seed-sowers

  • Sheep-shearing

  • Shepherds

  • Artists & craftsmen

  • Coopers

  • Glassworkers

  • Glaziers

  • Illuminators & illustrators

  • Joiners

  • Painters & limners

  • Parchment-makers

  • Potters

  • Saddlers

  • Sculptors

  • Shoemakers

  • Tanners

  • Wheelwrights

EDUCATION & LITERACY

  • Bookbinders

  • Inkwells & inkhorns

  • Penners

  • Schools & teachers

  • Scribes, scriveners, and their tools

  • Waxed tablets

ENTERTAINMENT

  • Acrobats

  • Commedia dell'Arte

  • Dancers

  • Fools & jesters

  • Jugglers

  • Musicians

  • Oliphants

  • Plate-spinners

  • Singers

  • Stilt-Walkers

  • Taverns & alehouses

  • Trained bears

GASTRONOMY

  • Bakers

  • Beer-brewers

  • Cheesemakers

  • Cooks & kitchens

  • Fishermen

  • Hunters

  • Pretzels

  • Spits

  • Sugar

  • Taverns & alehouses

  • Trammel chains and hooks

MEDICINE

  • Apothecaries

  • Crutches & canes

  • Doctors, physicians, surgeons, dentists, & quacks

  • Eyeglasses & spectacles

  • Lepers

METALWORK

  • Anvils

  • Armorers

  • Blacksmiths

  • Bellows

  • Coining, coin-minting, & coin dies

  • Cutlers and knife-makers

  • Goldsmiths & jewellers

  • Grindstones for knife-sharpening

  • Nails & nailsmiths

  • Wire-drawers

TEXTILE

  • Shearing wool

  • Carding & combing wool

  • Drapers

  • Embroiderers

  • Fingerloop braiding

  • Furriers

  • Hatmakers

  • Lacemakers

  • Laundry & launderers

  • Net-making

  • Sewing kits, seamstresses, & tailors

  • Spinning

  • Weaving & looms

  • Winding thread & yarn; includes niddy-noddies, bobbin-winders, and reels

TRADE

  • Cheesemongers

  • Drapers

  • Fishmongers

  • Furriers

  • Merchants’ booths

  • Merchants’ stalls

  • Peddlers, hawkers, itinerant tradesmen, & street-vendors

  • Weighing, scales, balances, & weights

BOOK ARTS

  • Books of hours and the labors of the seasons

  • Girdlebooks

  • Rolls of Arms

CLOTHING

  • Index to Medieval Clothing and Textiles

  • Clothing with blackwork embroidery

  • Clothing worn by the blind

  • Dagged clothing

  • Clothing worn by hermits

  • Inside-out clothing

  • Lacing rings

  • Ladies’ embroidered jackets in the 16th & 17th centuries

  • Knit garments

  • Nalebound garments

  • Particolored clothing

  • Patched Clothing

  • Pilgrims’ clothing

  • Tippets & Sleeve Streamers

  • Romani (Gypsy) clothing

  • Wedding dresses

ACCESSORIES

  • Aprons

  • Belts & girdles

  • Plaque belts

  • Wide belts (“Brode harnysed girdilles”)

  • Eyeglasses & spectacles

  • Fans

  • Garters

  • Gloves & mittens

  • Hairpins

  • Handkerchiefs

  • Masks: Vizards & Invisories

  • Pomanders

  • Ruffs and falling collars

  • Zibellini

BAGS

  • Shepherds’ budgets

  • Pilgrims’ scrips

  • Pouches & purses

  • Framed Purses

  • Drawstring Pouches

  • Sweetbags

  • Wallets & shoulder-sacks

CHILDREN & MOTHERHOOD

  • Bibs for babies

  • Medieval children’s clothing

  • Renaissance children’s clothing

  • Maternity clothes

  • Slings for carrying infants

FOOTWEAR

  • Hose

  • Ice Skates

  • Pattens

  • Shoes

HEADGEAR

  • Beaded-edge veils

  • The “St. Birgitta Cap” and related medieval women’s coifs

  • Bycockets (the Robin Hood hat)

  • ChaperonsFrilled veils, goffered veils, ruffled veils, kruseler, etc

  • .Ladies' coifs in the 16th and 17th centuries

  • Men's coifs

  • Hoods

  • Gentlemen's nightcaps

  • Tailed caps and related late 15th century women’s coifs

  • Straw hats

JEWELRY

  • Beaded Necklaces

  • Collars of orders of knighthood, and livery collars

  • Earrings

  • Hair-Pins

  • Hat Badges

  • Pendants

  • Pins

  • Early medieval rings (6th-10th centuries)

  • High medieval rings (11th-13th centuries)

  • Late medieval rings (14th-15th centuries)

  • Renaissance rings (16th-17th centuries)

  • Poesy rings, memento mori rings, and other inscribed rings

  • Signet rings

  • Rosaries & paternosters

OUTERWEAR

  • Cloaks

  • Gardecorps

  • Hoods

  • Loose gowns

  • Women's sleeveless surcoats

UNDERWEAR

  • Breeches & braies

  • HoseShirts (for men)

  • Smocks (for women)

LITERARY REFERENCES

  • Garments & armor in The Canterbury Tales

  • Garments in the works of Henryson

  • Garments in the Paston Letters

CONTAINERS

  • Baskets

  • Buckets

  • Canteens, Costrels, & Flasks

  • Cases

  • Cupboards

  • Boxes, caskets, and coffers

  • Bone & ivory boxes

  • Enamel boxe

  • sIllustrations of boxes

  • Leather-covered boxes

  • Metal boxes

  • Bentwood boxes

  • Carved wooden boxes

  • Wooden boxes with decorative inlay

  • Lacquered boxes

  • Wooden boxes with decorative metal mounts

  • Painted wooden boxes

  • Velvet-covered wooden boxes

  • Cassoni

  • Chests & trunks

  • Embroidered caskets from 17th century England

  • Sacks

EMBROIDERY & NEEDLEWORK

  • Karen’s Embroidery Library

  • Appliqué

  • Beadwork

  • Cross Stitch Embroidery in the Middle Ages and Renaissance *Gloves & mittens

  • Handkerchiefs

  • Ladies’ jackets

  • Klosterstickerei (a style of narrative embroidery used for wall-hangings in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance)

  • Gentlemen’s nightcaps

  • Designing your own Oxburgh-style embroidery

  • Embroidered coifs

  • Samplers

  • Voided work and Assisi work

DOMESTIC ITEMS

  • Brooms

  • Carpets

  • Chests & trunks

  • Cupboards

  • Gardens

  • Hourglasses

  • Keychains & keyrings

  • Padlocks

  • Prie-dieux

  • Shovels

  • Trestle tables

  • Tablets

  • Windows of crown glass/bullseye glass

PLAYTIME

  • Dolls

  • Ball games

  • Board games

  • Card games

  • Dice games

  • Rattles

  • Snowballs

  • Stilts

  • Swimming

  • Toy knights

  • Toys

  • Water

  • JoustingWrestling

HYGIENE & HAIR

  • Baths

  • Beards

  • Combs & hair-combing

  • Mirrors

  • Cutting hair

  • Dressing & styling hair

LIGHTING

  • Candleholders

  • Lamps

  • Lanterns

  • Leuchterweibchen & LüsterweibchenTorches

SEATING

  • Benches

  • Chairs

  • Settles

SLEEPING

  • Beds

  • Cradles

FEASTING

  • Trestle tables

  • "Feast Gear": Scenes of meals and feasts, and related material culture

  • Feast gear in Antiquity

  • Early medieval feast gear (6th-10th centuries)

  • High medieval feast gear (11th-13th centuries)

  • Late medieval feast gear (14th-15th centuries)

  • Renassance feast gear (16th-17th centuries

  • Where to get replica feast gear

  • Damask linen tablecloths & napkins

  • Perugia tablecloths

  • Perugia towels and napkins

  • Table carpets

  • Cutlery (forks & knives)Spoons

  • Bakers’ molds

  • Bellows

  • Butter-churns

  • Wafer irons

  • Winepresses

  • Aquamaniles

  • Beakers

  • Canteens, costrels, & flasks

  • Enamelled glassware

  • EwersFlagons

  • Lusterware

  • Mazers

  • Nefs

  • Ostrich-egg cups

  • Pitchers & jugs

  • Saltcellars

  • Table-fountains

  • Maiolica arcaica

  • Zaffera a rilievo

  • Stile severo

  • Stile bello

  • Stile istoriato

  • Belle Donne

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

  • Pirates

  • Stocks & pillories

KNIGHTHOOD & ARMS

  • Banners & flags

  • Caparisons

  • Crests

  • Enclosures & list-fences

  • Galleries

  • Heralds

  • Knighting Ceremonies

  • Livery

  • Men’s heraldic surcoats

  • Pavilion Construction

  • Painted Shields

  • Quintains

  • Trumpet-banners

  • Women in armor

  • Women riding astride

CONVEYANCE

  • Handbarrows

  • Litters

  • Rowboats

  • Sleds

  • Sleighs

  • Stretchers & Biers

  • Wagons

  • Wheelbarrows

  • Wheelwrights

LIBRARIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES

  • Karen’s Embroidery Library

  • Gruffudd’s Culinary Library

  • Kids’ books on life in the Middle Ages & Renaissance

  • Articles on research and writing

  • Documentation is Not a Dirty Word

  • Ten simple things you can do to impress the judges at an Arts and Sciences competition

  • Using the internet for research and documentation

  • Navigating REALonline (for the non-German speaker)

  • Navigating BNF Mandragore (for the non-French speaker)

  • Basque Onomastics of the Eighth to Sixteenth Centuries

  • Bynames from 15th Century York*An Index to the 1296 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Rutland, England*

  • An Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England*

  • A translation of the Manual de mugeres en el qual se contienen muchas y diversas reçeutas muy buenasInventories of New Year's Gifts for Queen Elizabeth

  • Patient Griselda: Literature and IllustrationsTales from the Decameron: Providing literary context for 15th century illustrations

  • From Unboring® to Anachronistic: An IKEA® Toybox with Medieval-Inspired Decoration

  • Other links to other websites on medieval material culture

  • Karen’s SCA RésuméFree Cross Stitch Patterns

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