How Did Medieval People Stay Warm in the Winter? We recreated a snowball fight from a painting!
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- How did they stay warm in the middle ages? How does medieval clothing compare to modern clothing? Does it keep you warmer? We are exploring clothing from the late medieval period and how it works to keep us warm. We will talk about things like climate, heat transfer as it relates to our bodies and clothing, and how fabric and clothes work to insulate and keep us warm. Come for the medieval clothing, and stay for the scientific basis behind wearing wool clothes and layering! And in the process, we will recreate a medieval snowball fight!
And there is a bit about medieval friendship too! Because friendship is magic!
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:14 Medieval Friendship
4:53 Climate and Staying Warm
10:20 Fabrics and Clothing
14:10 Getting Dressed
24:27 Snowball Fight
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Resources:
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I sure do hope that wool gets over it's fear of water, ya know, being hydrophobic and all
Snowball fights is step one in its exposure therapy.
Rabid wool!
As an oceanographer, I am so happy to hear your explanation of specific heat, climate, and how the human body regulates temperature. AWESOME JOB! Thank you!
I believe the incidence of drowning was pretty excessive in the Middle Ages, since woollen garments absorb so much water that if someone fell in to a stream, say, collecting water or washing clothes, they might struggle to get out with the weight of water in the wool. I heard that, anyway, on a British history TV programme. So wool's great for insulating, just don't fall in the water.
In addition, it was very very rare for people to have the time and access to safe water, to learn how to swim.
This makes no sense: in the early 1900s swimsuits were made almost exclusively of wool.
@@jermainerace4156 by that point it was much thinner and lighter wool, much less of it for a swimsuit than a full outfit too. Also women generally didn't really swim at the beach, they mostly waded around
Wool is buoyant…..
That fact that people even did snowball fights during this time period is amazing, you really dont expect medieval people to do modern stuff like us however eventhou they didnt have any of the stuff we have nowadays at least they had snowball fights and thats all you need in life for an amazing christmas and winter.
The dresses are beautiful but I really love the caps and hoods. The hoods could be worn as stylish history bounding winter outerwear ☃️
Totally agree! I love wearing these cozy hoods, and they go great with other clothes too!
Greetings from Canada! Now, that's a medieval chronicle that speaks to me! Snow! The only question remaining now is what were they wearing to protect their feet from the cold. Wool woven stockings, poulaines, pattens sure, but were they sufficent? Thank you for this adorable video, it rejoices my heart!
From personal experience, as a historical recreator living in Norway, my iron age/medieval outfits are often much more insulating in winter than my modern clothes; including the footwear.
A pair of thick over-knee needlebound wool socks/hose with a cord drawstring attached just below the knee, my jorvik replica boots lined with shortwool soles and a large piece of long haired sheepskin tied around each calf with wool or leather cords, covering the boots as well (reindeer would work even better).
A set of ice cleats is recommended too.
In particularly cold weather I might use a long cord or narrow tabletwoven band to bind my inner serk/shift so as to work like baggy shorts.
I've been playing in 30cm of snow in -20C for hours, stalked white tail deer through dense forest in a blizzard for the better part of a whole day to get the perfect photo - all wearing historical clothes.
And what started as an experiment two years ago has now become preferable to my other winter garments.
Intertwining my favourite things, science, medieval history and how we've always been in search of high quality relationships. Fantastic!!!
That red colour on one of the dresses is soooo beautifull
Thank you so much!!
A note about Europe before the Little I’ve Age: look up Trondheim. See how far north it is? They were growing wheat there. Wheat only grows within a three degree Celsius zone. That’s how warm the world was. We are not even there, not close.
About holes in cloth trapping heat. I have an undershirt of fishnet cotton. That fishnet traps a lot of heat. So much so, that I could ski wearing that and a light jacket or sweater (wool). So, you are spot on!
Wool, even soaked through, still insulates.
Keep up the great work!
Cheers!
Phobic does not mean “afraid of”
It means “rejecting”
This is a very important difference… in many conversations
I love the explanations of the fabrics in the molecular level - sooo interesting!!! 😯
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I've been a little apprehensive to include scientific language in my costuming work, and I'm so happy to hear that this was interesting!
I need wool dresses now
"In a text from 1190..."
Wait, a wha--- oh, lol! 😆
This was really interesting to watch! So much information! Where I live isn't so cold but I am always cold. This makes me want to make wool dresses. Yours look really beautiful!
Thank you, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Wool dresses are so cozy!
Hello! Totally loved the video, and you did such a fabulous job with almost everything during your portion on heat transference, I just wanted to point out one, sort of nitpicky (but science is very nitpicky), thing; you referred to people becoming comfortable in different temperatures as "adapting" to them, where I think the term you were looking for was "acclimating" - the term "adapting" is pretty much only in reference to evolution, while "acclimating" is about becoming used to an environment. I know it seems small but I only mention it because I was so impressed by the rest of your explanation, I figured it might be worth mentioning! Honestly all in all great work, and thank you so much for sharing this! I'm glad I watched it :) (and for context; I'm a biology student and we were just studying this recently - that's the only reason I caught it haha)
my bestie and i are both left-handed science/art/music/athletic nerds who never quite grew up. we're both addicted to skee-ball and whack-a-mole and everything else you can do at the beach and on the boardwalk. once, we had a whack-a-mole celebrity death grudge match...and we'd won 1 game each...and she let me win the 3rd game because i wanted the adorable fuzzy smiling plush pineapple in the prizes. said pineapple-girl lives on my bed with me, and my bestie giggles every time she sees her on skype/zoom. :D
Oh wow that is so awesome! What a cool reminder to have the pineapple-girl, I love it!
Lining with linen also saves me personally, since I'm allergic to wool. What about shoes in snow? Do you have any research which shows women wearing the same boots that men would wear? It seems to me that women who worked around a farm would need the same kind of protection on her feet that a man would wear.
Medieval clothes were linen and mostly wool….
Of course it’s warm
I wear 4 layers and it’s significantly warmer than any modern jacket
Wool base (long sleeves, but loose fit)
Briskness shirt (sadly this one is cotton, can’t afford wool shirts)
Wool Troyer (2.3kg of wool, it’s a heavy Rymhardt that’s made to measure)
Wool overcoat
(Scarf and hat, also wool)
If it gets really cold I also wear thermo leggings (merino) and switch my base to a tight fitting merino
I live in a North Sea island….
While temperatures don’t get super low (maybe -4C) cause there is ocean 400 meters north and south, we get A LOT of wind
No modern outer wear I have encountered can deal with 8 Beaufort and still keep you warm
Dressing in layers and using the correct materials is great, and something I have always done.
My "issue" is always my hands & feet! How did they do it "back then"? Certainly the pictures are not encouraging.
Whether using the most modern materials or the oldies of silk-wool-leather, mine always freeze.
I think the best answer is in your question. Its modern day and we still struggle with the hands and feet so I assume it was much the same back then. They had better materials and layers instead but I think its safe to say that problem areas were still problem areas.
Try wool. It works best for me. And never wear shoes that are too small, because pressure will make your feet cold.
I have mittens that are lined with fur on the inside. My fingers like to freeze but these babys will heat you up like you've never seen before.
They are made of sheep, so definitely they had back then.
To those who replied? Bring on the winter!!! (Fall 2023)
I *love* wool and it is definitely a "go to" material, but I still get cold.
I had rabbit fur-lined deerskin gloves and mittens as a kid -- loved them. My dad would leather treat them, I think with the same stuff we used on our baseball gloves.
And, yes, I wear the shoes/boots loose *and* usually have wool socks.
Martina, I think you were probably right - I bet they did freeze their hands and feet, just as we do.
Also, how about a video on wet weather garment back then?
Ok. Its hysterical that we were both talking about playing in the snow & the mini ice age this week.i love this video
It's a pretty cool topic! 😁❄️😁
was not expecting a science lesson but it was very interesting and helpful
Friendship is magic!🦄
Awesome video! I liked your music choice when showing the different outfits, especially for the last one... modern beats for modern fabrics, very fitting :)
Thanks to your pattern tutorial, I finally started working on my own medieval kirtle. I plan to create a yellow linen one and another from blue wool. Can't wait until they are done! Thanks so much for your awesome content!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Love the round dags!
Thank you! They are so fun!
Would you mind sharing what is the construction of your red-wool outer dress with dagged sleeves? For example, how many gores does it have? And are upper ends of the sleeves a little bit puffed (from wider sleeve set in a smaller armhole, I guess?)?
It is a very beautiful dress.
For the most part of the Middle Ages there was a warm period, the temperatures at the time was approximately 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than today world wide, Global Warming at the time much worse than today 😆
Was it customary/usual ro remove layers once inside where theres a fire? If one was wearing all those layers while for example stopping for a hot meal at an inn or something it would get hot to the point of uncomfortable no? Simply asking out of curiosity! Of course hoods, mittens etc. are easy to remove but I think i'd want to remove the woolen gown if I was wearing the kirtle underneath.
I wondered the same!
Idk if this would make a big difference in the situation but good insulation keeps you warm when it's cool and cool when it's warm. I would imagine that the wool would insulate you from both the cold of the snow and the heat from the fire and any sweat would be whisked away pretty fast by the linen underlayers.
Edit: That's not to say that you can't get too extreme on one side or the other, but I feel like it wouldn't happen for very long before you reach equilibrium again.
Just subscribed, NOTE: keep in mind that many women have drowned over the years to to the weight of wool skirts.
Those dresses are glorious!
Thank you so much! ❤️
This was great, thanks!
I loved this video!!
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It Is true the ancient dress wase more worm in the Winter becase It was made in natural material and It wase more large and keep our Natural warm near of the body .
Any tips for picking the right weights and weaves of wool for Kirtles?
Soooooo have you done a video on that trippy EYE dress? O.O
Edit: yuuuuup I commented too early :)
Haha yes! I found the project very eye-catching!
no, you don't want to move a lot in a very cold winter.
This exact mistake is one of the reason why napoleon lost his last campaign in russia : his soldier tought move and have sport is a great idea, feels warms !
But no. Very bad idea, especially when its all up to you to warm youreself :
1 ) you already are warming youreself. This is the purpose of a hot blood.
2 ) But it needs energy. The colder the weather, the more energy you need. So more you move, less you have energy to warm yourself.
3 ) moving allows air to enter the clothes. You lose a big part of the advantages of having multiple layers by not keeping them closed
Last, your dresses are wondefuls, but you forgot a detail : wide sleeves are in fact shaped this way to form a pocket at the end :
you just need to sew a bit to have a pocket really easily accessible,
and you can keep your hands in this warm place.
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How did they clean those clothes. I know the interlayers help but sweat goes through any thing it touches.
I once lived in a community where it was customary to wear underwear, then a shift with short sleeves, then a long dress. We changed the under layers every day. The dress was changed once a week in summer (in a hot, humid climate) and once in 6 months in winter. We spot cleaned the outer clothes and they didn't get dirty or smell.
Where do you find good wool dresses? Are they expensive?
I made all of these myself! I sometimes do commissions, and I also have resources to help you learn to make your own!
SCIENCE!!!!!!
Do I detect a strawberry overdress???
The pink strawberry under dress is there! The over dress is in progress and underway! 🍓
@@DaisyViktoria can't wait to see it, the scalloped dragged sleeve overdress is incredible!!
I want to raid your closet and steal all your clothes..... and then spend an inordinate amount of time altering them to fit me...
We can also make you some new ones and then be twins!! 😘
I heard you shouldn’t wear linen and wool together
Honestly this is really odd. Firstly you should define the time periods for your clothing, secondly region and thirdly status. My experience breaks down by about the 1360s and is largely Northern Europe. I have nothing to contest with the linen shirts, they are certainly the norm up to the mid 14th century and as far as I can tell to the end of that century as well. The next layer is usually wool though silk would definitely be an option at higher status, I am not aware of linen lining up to the end of the 14th century, either no lining, thin wool lining, silk or fur (not sure of the later on 2nd layer, 3rd certainly). The same essentially applies to the third layer, which even in summer would be worn outside the house except for hard labour (where men might even strip down to the linens, some cases of women wearing sleeveless surcots directly over their linen (white or natural) shirts). All of your hoods seem to be far too large, particularly the face openings, which would be very important in cold weather. The red hood does not seem to have a seem which makes no sense, if this is woven wool it will eventually start to fray. The green surcot is as far as I can tell pure fiction (you say from an allegorical illumination, which means we cannot use it), I can think of no way how the eyes could be made the way they are (not weaving, stamping or embroidery). I assume the eared hood is of the same origin, it's odd, but I would not categorically exclude the feasibility. The green surcot with the yellow stamping, I've never seen or heard of such fastenings (again if it's 15th century it might very well be real and I would not know about it). Oh and the removable sleeves are definitely not a thing for the entire medieval period, they certainly do not exist in Northern Europe from the 12th through the 14th century, you might have based these on, I'll call them 'loose sleeve' surcots (that is you can take your arms out of the garment, but the arms of said garment are firmly attached and not separate), or you actually confuse separate layers of clothing (again, outside the house you wear at least three layers except for certain kinds of work). These loose sleeves definitely exist at later periods. All this time you are wearing modern leg and foot covering, that makes the entire topic of winter clothing adventurous. One of the problems we have is to sufficiently isolate your turnshoes so as not to freeze your feet, supposedly you can fill the shoes with hay or straw (the later is doubtful) which would draw the water/snow. I have not had the opportunity to test this, all my shoes would in any case be too small to add any hay padding which raises the question whether there were summer and winter shoes (we have some documentation on how shoes could be made less slippery in wet weather, cords or strips of leather sown onto the soles, but this would have been rare). Considering how female leg wear only ever goes to just above the knee between the 12th and 15th century that would be an important issue, then again, the layering of upper clothing would probably be warm and tight enough while moving. I'm really brainstorming here as I'm pretty surprised about what you present as historical here. My Living History periods are ca. 1250-1270, and 1340-1350 (both Low Countries) but my contacts extend both temporally (early 12th through mid 15th) and physically (Savoy to Finland), while not an expert on female costume I think I have a good general knowledge in this area, both from historical sources and the gear friends and acquaintances own. So what I see in this video makes little sense to me. Some garments look rather good but like the hoods are the wrong size (and some of that would get really heavy in wet weather, wool might keep you warm while wet, but it weighs a ton). Linen as outer garments (layer 2 and up) makes little sense in general and none in winter, cotton even less, an alternative would be light wool. But none of the historic fabrics hang/fall like linen/cotton (we could add nettle but that seems to have been rare and frowned upon). And as I already said, in summer we would still be wearing multiple layers including at least some wool (while silk was certainly available to even peasants full garments made of this would have been prohibitively expensive, though of course old worn down fabric could be giften down). Generally the insulation layer created by sweat between the linen shirt and 2nd layer wool can be quite cooling (silk lining not quite as good, but good silk itself is cool to the touch). While I have not tried historic clothing in tropic (warm and wet) conditions I have worn it in 40° C and up (at least once in a white castle courtyard that radiated all the heat back up, in that situation I actually fled back to the kitchen and the hearth which seemed more comfortable (and I was wearing rather thick wool as my working cloth, the cottehardie I had that event was significantly lighter, though I don't think I wore that outside without surcot). One last thing, I have not seen any belts/girdles in the video, these were of course not always visible, but they are certainly an integral part of the dress. No, I'm really puzzled by this video, I guess it appeared in my feed because I was watching some Tudor Period related costume videos lately.
Of course they were warmer clothes. They weren’t plastic! I hate modern clothing and wish we’d go back to real natural fibers.
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