Fashionable garments from King Alfonso's court - Draft 0.1
This webpage is about a work in [slow] progress - recreating the fashionable look of 13th c. of Christian men and women from Castile, Spain. The aim is to base the designs on the construction and proportions of the extant garments and pictorial sources of the period.
The time and place
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The sources
We are fortunate to have many sources from this time period:
- The garments at Las Huelgas, Burgos
- The garments from the Royal Pantheon at St. Isidore's, León.
- The illuminations from the works commissioned by King Alfonso X of Castile, known as the Wise, especially those of:
- the Book of Games
- the Cantigas de Santa María
The garments
| Type | Women's | Men's |
| Shirt/tunic | María (?-1235) | |
| Hose | María (?-1235) | |
| Laced Saya | Leonor (?-1244) | Fernando |
| Pellote | Leonor (?-1244) | Fernando |
| | Enrique I |
| | Fernando, son of Alfonso X |
| Mantle | | Fernando |
| | Fernando, son of Alfonso X |
| Coif | | Fernando |
Images of women
Wearing sleeveless laced saya, pellote and mantle
The combination of sleeveless laced saya, pellote and mantle seems quite common in the illuminations. This style also shows off the embroidery on the tunic underneath, the camisa. The saya and pellote of doña Leonor likely formed part of such a set.
All images in one page
Images of men
Bibliography
- Concha Herrero Carretero, Museo de Telas Medievales - Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Huelgas, Burgos. Editorial Patrimonio Nacional, I.S.B.N. 84-7120-127-5
Contiene fotos y descripciones de varias prendas y accesorios del siglo XIII, conservadas en el museo, y de varias telas brocadas hispanomusulmanas.
- Carmen Bernís Madrazo, Indumentaria Medieval Española, CSIC Madrid 1956
Agotado. Trata de la indumentaria entre los siglos VI y XV. Tiene textos e ilustraciones de la época, reproducidas en blanco y negro.
- M. Davenport, The Book of Costume, Crown Publishers, Nueva York 1956.
Agotado. Trata de la vestimenta europea desde la Antigüedad en adelante. El siglo XII está incluído en el volumen 1. Incluye explicaciones, información de fondo e ilustraciones y fotos de objetos de época (en blanco y negro).
Acknowledgements
All images of illuminations come from Alfonso's Book of Games. Many thanks for letting me use them!
Also my thanks to the folks at the Medieval Spain list, for all their help. :)