14th Century Clothing

HD's hood

2025 · Second use wool, linen and gifted acorn bells

Second use wool, linen lining, lucet cord border decoration with (gifted) acorn bells.

Master Payne's New Clothes

2026 · Second use sheeting and brocades, lucet cording, metal studs.

Parti-colored tunic and surcoat, made from sheeting and a second use brocade. I also made the pennants in this photo, and I even helped to build the stage he is standing on.

Master Payne's Dagging

2026 · Cotton sheeting, metal studs, binding tape.

A detail shot from the tunic shown in the previous photo. All materials used for this garment are second use.

Surcoat and Liripipe Hood

2025 · Second use wools, linens and damask

A parti-colored surcoat pieced together from strips of patterned wool. Also shown here is a black linen liripipe hood. Not as visible are a black wool tunic, and his undertunic crafted from a damask tablecloth.

The Gardecorps

2025 · Wool

JB had been gifted with a length of wool found at a thrift store. He also provided the buttons, and the inspiration for this 14th century gardecorps. You can read the complete stories behind the making of this garment at https://augustphoenixhats.com/interpreting-a-14th-century-gardecorps/ and https://augustphoenixhats.com/the-rest-of-the-gardecorps-story/

Gardecorps Detail

2025

Three of the closures for this gardecorps. His Mongolian buttons teamed well with the lucet cord I made on the lucet fork JB made for me. This garment was a true collaborative effort.

Hood with Oak Dagging

The gardecorps needed a hood that could be dressed down, and laundered. So I made the oak leaf dagging detachable via pairs of snaps. It is not historically accurate but it works really well for the modern world needs of this performer.

Gardecorps Hood

2025 · Wools, leather

Crafted from a wool to compliment the gardecorps, with hand embroidered oak leaf dags lined with leather and ornamented with acorn bells. The dags are detachable...

Surcote for LP

2026 · New linen

Custom surcote with parti-colored hood, made from new linens supplied by the recipient.

Parti-colored linen hood

2026 · New linen, and lucet cord

Custom made liripipe hood with lucet cord trim, to match the surcote in the previous photo.