Re: Cotton padding

[Mathieu Harlaut]

Hi,

It is one century too early, but there is also a 14th century pourpoint
stuffed with cotton.

It is a civilian pourpoint of the typical hourglass shape of the end of the
14th century. It is kept in the Cathedral of Chartres.

The report of a recent restoration says that the body is made of 1 layer of
silk, 2 layers of cotton wool and 4 layer of linen in this sequence: silk
(outside)-linen-cotton wool-linen, linen-cotton wool-linen (inside).

The sleeve are the made the same but only with 3 layers of linen.

This pourpoint was considered some time ago to be an arming jack or some
kind of gambison. Now everyone seems to agree that it is quite an expensive
civilian garment (silk lampas and kermes dye) but the structure can be a
hint for making an arming doublet of our period.

Cheers,

Mathieu


le 29/09/04 23:19, Christian Folini à christian.folini-at-time-machine.ch a
écrit :

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:07:22PM +0200, Ivo Malz wrote:
>> Hello.
>> 
>>>> The Lübeck padded garment, just like he Stendal specimen, in fact IS
>>> padded
>>>> with raw cotton batting.
>>> 
>>> Do you happen to know if it is with seams or without? Well i reckon
>>> it is without, but i want to be sure.
>> 
>> Do you mean seams or seeds?
> 
> seeds of course. sorry. german is too close to English to get it right.
> 
> christian