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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