The younger woman, doing the quilting who takes such delight in doing her job...I know she had to start very young to be in this episode (just the thought of such intricate work, and to be video-taped while doing it), but to have such an interest in this, it's admirable.
Decoration was both a target and a way of protecting the wearer. In the Medieval era, the idea of ransoming prisoners was massive, and so wealthy noblemen would avoid killing each other. Such lavishly decorated armour basically said "you should capture me instead of killing me, it's worth it."
Killing a nobleman would be beyond stupid, since you couldn't get a ransom for him. I know it's self-evident! Armor was a status symbol, especially when the leader was on the battle field with his soldiers (and as the curator says, it was a great morale boost; real leaders fought even with the threat of death).
@@lauren1695 Calm down would you? If she would have been a reflection of that time period she wouldn't have colored red hair, not that hair style and sure as hell no makeup on her face.
@@Eisdax No, just how the hair fell out is all :).. nothing really about how she actually looks. Just taking off the helmet after a long fight is what I imagined.
I have to say I love the host! I guess I jumped to some conclusions based on her eclectic sense of style, but she’s so down to earth and seems sincerely interested in the topic. I wish American television hosts would take notes.
@@RoPiDe sounds educated. She has more degrees than you ever will. Also, since when has taste in fashion and the freedom to choose what to wear defined educational ability?
@@zach3394 Plus I love how what she wears reflects what they're making in each episode. Love the black leg and white leg on the tights in this episode mirroring the blue and red on the jupon!
I would LOVE to see a cost breakdown of what each of the created outfits for the series cost for supplies and labor, compared to back then. I mean, 500 hours of embroidery in gold thread carries a substantial cost in any era, appreciating it in today's money would give a real equivalent for the relative cost back in historical times, too.
Well, I haven't looked into silk velvet costs in the past 2 weeks, but it is anywhere from 30-60 dollars a yard, and for something like this, I'd say 2 yards? Linen they are using for the backing is probably 8-12 dollars a yard. I charge 25 dollars an hour and I'm not nearly as skilled as Ninya or the other seamstresses who probably charge more. 10 days of sewing, assuming an 8 hour day means 80 hours for just sewing down the embroidery. So, it is safe to say that this outfit costs more than 2000 just for the jupon in materials and labor.
I read that history through what we wore and how we made the items is indeed a wonderful way to learn history but of course, you can never get away from warfare.
I fell into this series about a week ago after watching Amber on English Heritage's channel and I'm absolutely in love with this series and and adore Amber due to both her own personal style and knowledge and I honestly would love if this became a regular series to watch. As someone who was crap at history in school and never much cared for it you guys made me fall in love with history.
It is mind-boggling to think that that jupon hung In. The. Air. - for 600 years! To see more about armor, watch Secrets of the Castle, episode 2, and Richard III - The New Evidence, in which armor was made for a young body double of the curve-backed king.
very fascinating, and especially, I think, what asians used, and how it was worked into the clay soldiers in China (some armor was made of/represented in the clay figures and some was probably made of the real materials now long gone).
The exposure to open air definitely contributed to the loss of original pigments on the jupon, much like statues and architectures of Roman Empire survived today have lost their original colours, which were supposed to be vividly vibrant.
This surcoat was one of the several funerary achievements that were displayed at the Prince's tomb. The others were his sword, gauntlets, and his tournament great helm. The head of his effigy rests on a recreation in gilded copper of his tournament great helm laid on its side. The actual great helm survived, though badly corroded and the leather and gesso outer portion of the helm did not. Dr. Capwell oversaw a project which recreated the helm with its leopard crest recently. That helm would have been worn over the bascinet type he is shown wearing on his effigy. Interestingly enough, under the heraldic surcoat, he wore plate armor, called a coat of plates, with an articulated steel apron covering his lower body to the upper thigh. His legs and arms are covered with plate armor, and there would have been chain mail voiders in the armpits and other places where the sun doesn't shine. The huge mail collar he wears is hung from his bascinet helmet and was very densely made with a fabric lining that was nearly impervious to blade or arrow, called an aventail. In war, he may have worn a visor on the bascinet to provide additional protection to his face.
Initially I was not excited about this episode and nearly skipped it. I am SO happy I didn't the wealth of information and the reveal at the end was spectacular!! I love this show!
About the cotton padding, I think Ruth Goodman had figured it out by sewing multiple layers of beaten cotton fabric and loose cotton into rows. She details the process in the Secrets of the Castle documentary series
I love this show. It is interesting to me that in this episode, they don’t even address one more essential part of the armour: the gambeson, or arming jacket. (I don’t blame them at all, they have less than half an hour to do the show.) I sewed an arming jacket for my son to wear under his halberk (chain mail shirt). It had to be thickly padded, not only for his modern day comfort, but also b/c in real warfare, the chain mail halberk doesn’t even work to protect the soldier unless there is padding underneath it to absorb and disperse the force of the blows. This is my new favorite show: history, experimental archeology, and handwork, all rolled into one.
J. G. Exactly. 03:40 minutes in for approximate timestamp. It’s just not getting into the specifics of what each piece is called. It’s pointed out that padded textiles are the most essential pieces to armor, and in the Middle Ages they couldn’t make giant plate armor yet, so it was essential. The metal armor is what has survived for centuries so that’s why our minds always go there. Glad I wasn’t the only one who went... wait a minute, yes they did. But it made me rewind a few times to really absorb what was being said so I am grateful to the OP for this comment anyway, and also impressed for OP’s skillz! A million mom points for making that for your son OP!
Love that your helping your son with this hobby. I have riveted mail, and I know very well that you need padded quilted garments underneath the mail, just like you said. I made my own arming cap or coif, but I'm not ready yet to make my own gambeson or arming doublet.
Utterly beautiful! The garden, the arches, the shape of the helmet mimicking the arches, the construction of the garment...to see it all come to life! It's almost as good as time travel. LOVE IT!!!!!
k a y l e e If you are interested in just HOW muscular they often were, check out the History Cold Case on the skeleton of a man buried at Stirling Castle.
I do historical reenactment and have worn and sparred in full armor...and yeah. You develop shoulder and back and leg muscles simply by walking around in armor regularly. Throw in sparring, and it's one heck of a strength and cardio workout. Knights had to be quite physically fit.
I so love the fact that one of the ladies has a pencil ✏️ tucked in her bun.!I used to tuck a cable knitting needle in mine as I sat knitting 🧶.This show is absolutely fascinating,teaching and yet entertaining.I just love being taught this way.I love to embroider so this is amazing.💕
Cotton doesn’t seem likely for the wadding on the original garment. I would guess wool or even silk as it’s a very strong fiber and the purpose was to deflect weapons. Edited to add: Just looked it up. It was linen with wool padding covered by those amazing velvet panels.
I also didn't think cotton was likely - wool (particularly) or linen are better in dealing with water. In the age of central heating, clothes dryers etc (and synthetics used for most clothing for active wear) it's easy to forget how freakishly cold wet cotton garment can be.
I also would wish I could have watched them do a lot more work. I have created costumes out of my imagination and a pictures, but seeing that my intuition on how the layers worked and embroideries were attached after makes me thankful I listened to my Scottish grandmother talk about a lot of the “training” they had as young girls before going on to be servants in a “big house”. Thank you for this amazing video.
As a SCA reenactor who hand-made my own gambeson (hand stitched that bastard too, which when you're going through layers and layers of linen and wool is a TASK) I can tell you 100% definitely just offhand that you sandwiched the batting between the layers and stitched it. Gambesons were a form of armor, and the dense layers of fabric and batting are what provided that protection. You don't want to leave any weak spots for the enemy to poke a hole through and into you. They're also hot as hell to wear, which didn't perhaps matter much in cooler England, but if you're at Pennsic and it's 90F out, let me tell ya you're going to sweat your body weight every fifteen minutes or so (at least it FEELS like it!)
I've just started my journey in fashion design. I've always loved historical and vintage clothing/style. It's going to be a long journey but I aspire to do something like these ladies, or even work in museums around the world as a historic fashion curator or something along those lines. Not to mention I'd make, clothes and historical outfits for myself too. Absolutely love this series and hope to find more like it.
I'm so glad I found this! 14:58 is very interesting, as a hema (historical European martial arts) practitioner there are many padded coats for sale for sparring. But almost all of them are of the first method where you get those thin areas with just stitching such as on the SPES gamberson, however it might be due to the use of an industrial sowing machine stitching it too tight as well. you can clearly see there is a vulnerability where the coat is very thin and I have actually experienced the stiffness which is a pain. A lot of people think the stiffness provides better protection but it doesn't as there is less energy dampening. I think I'll spend a bit more money and find someone to make one via the second method.
The gambeson/jupon in 2000 was hung in a glass case opposite the effigy about 20ft off the floor in the RH aisle because I visited it.. a long journey by train. Maybe it was moved in 1945 (as they say) from above the effigy to across the aisle but was there during 2000. The Canterbury Cathedral tourist booklet I purchased shows a pic of it hung in the place I mention. Another couple of reasons not mentioned concerning why he was called 'black' is that while King Edward III was fair his wife Phillipa of Hainault was dark. If you take a look at the brother of the Black Prince "John of Gaunt" his hair, beard etc,. was jet black. An Equiry was sent to Belgium to arrange the marriage of Edward and the returning description of Philippa bears out the nature of her complexion. Maybe the Prince followed his mother for looks as do most firstborns. The effigy itself which the Black Prince directed to be gilded and jewelled after his death was painted over with black paint to stop people meddling with the gold. Hence the iron rails. The precious stones in his crown have long since been picked out. The Black Prince also loved the colour black and had all his bankers, decor tapestries, done in black velvet with embroidered swans. but on this re-creation it looks like the label points are too long and overwhelm the jacket. Food for thought.
After seeing how the garment was painstakingly laced up, I had this silly flashback to the time when my kids were little and I had just dressed them in a snowsuit and they ( of course) would say :"Mommy, I have to pee..."
Well, they did have a lot of advantages here compared to that one: They could see it - unobscured - from several angles, and they could study the actual surviving garment.
Oh boy here everyone goes again. Everyone an armchair expert! We await the ‘I could do better than that’ diatribe! No you can’t & NO WE ARE NOT INTERESTED
Isn't this gorgeous? I love this. The Jupon is so beautiful looking. ❤ I wonder what it really feels like to wear something as awesome as this. I know that it is for battle purposes but to me it is just to pretty 😍 to wear. These are truly talented people that recreated something as wonderful as this.
The relatively simple historical reinactment garments (northern European 10th century) I have sewn last longer and wear harder than my modern clothing. I never aim to recreate the garments of the nobility, however. I greatly dislike standing still and worrying about my clothes. But I also lack the skill to do that kind of work. I make my toiles out of cotton (so out of period!) and the clothing out of linen, wool, and a bit of silk trim and some leather fittings.
People started training to be a knight in their teens and if your family were wealthy enough they could buy new armour with growth, obviously, it's not the same level used in battle but enough for sparring with friends and trainers. Others either wouldn't get armour until trained or it would be reforged/repurposed to save time and money or yeah people were smaller builds back in the day
My high school found a full set of late armor when the foundations were dug. We used it as a "mascot" and the only boy who could wear it was very short and stout. Kind of reduced the glamour of the armor!
Historical reinacting has become a huge hobby nowadays. Ive seen little ladies like her fully decked out in proper armor and kicking butt on the tournament field. It was probably made to fit her.
@@KateLove21 Although the peasant classes were a little shorter than today (average males being around 5' 6'',) the nobility were at least as tall as people are today. For example, Edward The Black prince was 6 feet tall. His father, Edward III was 5' 9'' . Edward III's father, Edward II was 6' 1'' and his father, Edward I was 6' 2''. Source: The Mississippi Quarterly Vol. 10, No. 1 (January, 1957), pp. 29-41 (13 pages) The reason that many suits of armour in museums are small is because they were designed for members of the ruling class who had not yet reached adulthood.
I do wonder why they didn’t allow the ladies who actually created the garment to be the ones to see the original in person ... In any case, this series is fantastic.
Ninya is based in Nottingham, traveling to Canterbury by train would be almost 3 hours. So it could be that Ninya couldn’t arrange such a trip due to her schedule.
Great show, and so much to learn. I would like to have seen the armor on a tall lithe MAN, because I want to visualize the actual Plantagenet Black Prince, who was well over six feet tall.
it's just so satisfying to know you have repaired it to last many many more years... I use old baby clothes for making doll dresses and yes turning the worn out and ripped clothing into new articles is so much fun.
Dressed with the jubon of the Black Prince she looks like Prince Valiant from the american comic strip. Just the same haircut. She looks great :) The work of the dressmakers is so interesting.
Juvenile question, but how did they go to the bathroom? More importantly, would the servants get mad if the Prince was like, "Yo, I need to pee." after getting him dressed?
Evette Champion I think the trousers had a flap like closure in front and since the metal part ends at high hip level...peeing shouldn’t have been a problem. Although he might have needed someone else to actually open the garment and take out the little prince for him...
Fun fact: I once met a man in full plate-armour at a ren fair. His armour didn't have convenient flaps or hinges, and he said he played a delicate balancing act all day between dehydration and trying not to piss his pants
The real honest answer? Well. If you were in the thick of battle or lined up ready for one to start, and you really had to go..you just went. No taking off anything, you just went right there in your pants. One of the jobs of a squire was scrubbing the blood, piss, and shit out the armor of his master after a battle.
God I want this show to last forever. I could watch the three women recreate historical clothing and work out the technical aspects all day.
always here for "My brother-in-law's trousers have been speaking to me."
Me too🙋♂️
The younger woman, doing the quilting who takes such delight in doing her job...I know she had to start very young to be in this episode (just the thought of such intricate work, and to be video-taped while doing it), but to have such an interest in this, it's admirable.
Exactly! Me too!
Lol
Decoration was both a target and a way of protecting the wearer. In the Medieval era, the idea of ransoming prisoners was massive, and so wealthy noblemen would avoid killing each other. Such lavishly decorated armour basically said "you should capture me instead of killing me, it's worth it."
MRKapcer13 That is very a very good point.
Haha good to know 😂
That does make a lot of sense.
Killing a nobleman would be beyond stupid, since you couldn't get a ransom for him. I know it's self-evident! Armor was a status symbol, especially when the leader was on the battle field with his soldiers (and as the curator says, it was a great morale boost; real leaders fought even with the threat of death).
Yes, ransoms could redeem a families' fortunes - was hoping they'd mention that.
I love how the seamstress always has a pencil in her messy bun 🤣
She looks like Joan of Arc in the armor!
That's exactly what I thought!!!!
And when she took the helmet off.. I thought I was looking at mirror to that time period. My god.
@@lauren1695 Calm down would you? If she would have been a reflection of that time period she wouldn't have colored red hair, not that hair style and sure as hell no makeup on her face.
@@Eisdax No, just how the hair fell out is all :).. nothing really about how she actually looks. Just taking off the helmet after a long fight is what I imagined.
@@Eisdax while as a woman she wouldn't have had that style she would still have had make up just not as we have makeup today
I have to say I love the host! I guess I jumped to some conclusions based on her eclectic sense of style, but she’s so down to earth and seems sincerely interested in the topic. I wish American television hosts would take notes.
I so agree! She's a joy to watch.
I love her style! It's very bold and fascinatingly different.
Plus she’s gorgeous.
@@RoPiDe sounds educated. She has more degrees than you ever will. Also, since when has taste in fashion and the freedom to choose what to wear defined educational ability?
@@zach3394 Plus I love how what she wears reflects what they're making in each episode. Love the black leg and white leg on the tights in this episode mirroring the blue and red on the jupon!
I would LOVE to see a cost breakdown of what each of the created outfits for the series cost for supplies and labor, compared to back then. I mean, 500 hours of embroidery in gold thread carries a substantial cost in any era, appreciating it in today's money would give a real equivalent for the relative cost back in historical times, too.
Christine Cameron Only poor people fret over cost.
LOUIS XIV only poor people watch CZcams
-Wayne Artmann- Agreed.
Death to the poverty pimps!
LOUIS XIV We certainly do, “Mon Roi.”
Well, I haven't looked into silk velvet costs in the past 2 weeks, but it is anywhere from 30-60 dollars a yard, and for something like this, I'd say 2 yards? Linen they are using for the backing is probably 8-12 dollars a yard. I charge 25 dollars an hour and I'm not nearly as skilled as Ninya or the other seamstresses who probably charge more. 10 days of sewing, assuming an 8 hour day means 80 hours for just sewing down the embroidery. So, it is safe to say that this outfit costs more than 2000 just for the jupon in materials and labor.
This brings history alive in a way I've never experienced before.
I read that history through what we wore and how we made the items is indeed a wonderful way to learn history but of course, you can never get away from warfare.
”lovely sausagey definition" xD
I fell into this series about a week ago after watching Amber on English Heritage's channel and I'm absolutely in love with this series and and adore Amber due to both her own personal style and knowledge and I honestly would love if this became a regular series to watch. As someone who was crap at history in school and never much cared for it you guys made me fall in love with history.
Couldn't agree more on this.
I wish she made more seasons. I love this show! I actually like her clothes they have historical hipness to them
A red headed Joan of Arc😊. Fabulous series!
It is mind-boggling to think that that jupon hung In. The. Air. - for 600 years! To see more about armor, watch Secrets of the Castle, episode 2, and Richard III - The New Evidence, in which armor was made for a young body double of the curve-backed king.
very fascinating, and especially, I think, what asians used, and how it was worked into the clay soldiers in China (some armor was made of/represented in the clay figures and some was probably made of the real materials now long gone).
The exposure to open air definitely contributed to the loss of original pigments on the jupon, much like statues and architectures of Roman Empire survived today have lost their original colours, which were supposed to be vividly vibrant.
she has the perfect haircut for a medieval knight! lol
It's amazing that they still have his jacket. It's so surreal to look at an actual article of clothing that a king wore so long ago.
This surcoat was one of the several funerary achievements that were displayed at the Prince's tomb. The others were his sword, gauntlets, and his tournament great helm. The head of his effigy rests on a recreation in gilded copper of his tournament great helm laid on its side. The actual great helm survived, though badly corroded and the leather and gesso outer portion of the helm did not. Dr. Capwell oversaw a project which recreated the helm with its leopard crest recently. That helm would have been worn over the bascinet type he is shown wearing on his effigy.
Interestingly enough, under the heraldic surcoat, he wore plate armor, called a coat of plates, with an articulated steel apron covering his lower body to the upper thigh. His legs and arms are covered with plate armor, and there would have been chain mail voiders in the armpits and other places where the sun doesn't shine. The huge mail collar he wears is hung from his bascinet helmet and was very densely made with a fabric lining that was nearly impervious to blade or arrow, called an aventail. In war, he may have worn a visor on the bascinet to provide additional protection to his face.
Those women are unbelievably talented.
Initially I was not excited about this episode and nearly skipped it. I am SO happy I didn't the wealth of information and the reveal at the end was spectacular!! I love this show!
About the cotton padding, I think Ruth Goodman had figured it out by sewing multiple layers of beaten cotton fabric and loose cotton into rows. She details the process in the Secrets of the Castle documentary series
Ruth is the best!
Wait... that's her REAL hair?!?! I thought for sure it was a wig! My God... the upkeep is truly commendable 👏
How offensive are you?
@@margolenney6032 I'm sorry what? How is saying her hair looks so good I thought it was a wig offensive? .... How dull are you??
I thought it was a wig as well. Nothing wrong with that, there are many women who wear wigs to change up their style/color.
I thought it was also… I wonder how does she get it to look so good?
Doesn’t she look stunning in that armour! So fierce and beautiful!
I love this show.
It is interesting to me that in this episode, they don’t even address one more essential part of the armour: the gambeson, or arming jacket. (I don’t blame them at all, they have less than half an hour to do the show.)
I sewed an arming jacket for my son to wear under his halberk (chain mail shirt). It had to be thickly padded, not only for his modern day comfort, but also b/c in real warfare, the chain mail halberk doesn’t even work to protect the soldier unless there is padding underneath it to absorb and disperse the force of the blows.
This is my new favorite show: history, experimental archeology, and handwork, all rolled into one.
Tina Wow! I'm sewing myself some medieval outfits and was wondering.... Where did you get patterns or instructions for that?!?
They do refer to padded textile as a very important part of the armour!
J. G. Exactly. 03:40 minutes in for approximate timestamp. It’s just not getting into the specifics of what each piece is called. It’s pointed out that padded textiles are the most essential pieces to armor, and in the Middle Ages they couldn’t make giant plate armor yet, so it was essential. The metal armor is what has survived for centuries so that’s why our minds always go there. Glad I wasn’t the only one who went... wait a minute, yes they did.
But it made me rewind a few times to really absorb what was being said so I am grateful to the OP for this comment anyway, and also impressed for OP’s skillz! A million mom points for making that for your son OP!
3:25 He doesn't say gambison, but he emphasized fabric armor.
Love that your helping your son with this hobby. I have riveted mail, and I know very well that you need padded quilted garments underneath the mail, just like you said. I made my own arming cap or coif, but I'm not ready yet to make my own gambeson or arming doublet.
Utterly beautiful! The garden, the arches, the shape of the helmet mimicking the arches, the construction of the garment...to see it all come to life! It's almost as good as time travel. LOVE IT!!!!!
damn dudes back then must've been ripped. that's a lot of cardio and muscular strain to undergo. i mean, imagine how strong they must've been!
k a y l e e If you are interested in just HOW muscular they often were, check out the History Cold Case on the skeleton of a man buried at Stirling Castle.
20 kg is not that much...an average soldier today still wears the same amount of equipment.
I do historical reenactment and have worn and sparred in full armor...and yeah. You develop shoulder and back and leg muscles simply by walking around in armor regularly. Throw in sparring, and it's one heck of a strength and cardio workout.
Knights had to be quite physically fit.
Lol jump on a horse wearing full armour. And those weren't little horses...they were probably percherons.
Obviously they didn't "jump" it as you jump a fence..no one is claiming that...
Amazing how they had to create all of this by hand...hoursand hours of skill and labor.
Karen Kirkpatrick e
they didint have tv so sewing must have helped the boredom? great show this could watch for hours so much we don know/
I so love the fact that one of the ladies has a pencil ✏️ tucked in her bun.!I used to tuck a cable knitting needle in mine as I sat knitting 🧶.This show is absolutely fascinating,teaching and yet entertaining.I just love being taught this way.I love to embroider so this is amazing.💕
The head seamstress should start a podcast where she simply speaks...about anything. Her voice is so calming, it can put me to sleep.
It's not common for me to come across a character in English history I'm not very familiar with. Yay, someone new! Love this show!
I find these projects of garment recreation and history lesson to be exhilarating! I simply adore these little documentaries. Thank you!
The man in the church reminds me a lot of Alan Rickman. I really miss him!
Yes. The whole time I was thinking “ who does he look like ?”
Yes! Even the voice sounds similar.
Cotton doesn’t seem likely for the wadding on the original garment. I would guess wool or even silk as it’s a very strong fiber and the purpose was to deflect weapons.
Edited to add: Just looked it up. It was linen with wool padding covered by those amazing velvet panels.
I also didn't think cotton was likely - wool (particularly) or linen are better in dealing with water. In the age of central heating, clothes dryers etc (and synthetics used for most clothing for active wear) it's easy to forget how freakishly cold wet cotton garment can be.
Anyone else notice the Alan Rickman lookalike she talks to in the church? I'm stunned, really!
I also would wish I could have watched them do a lot more work. I have created costumes out of my imagination and a pictures, but seeing that my intuition on how the layers worked and embroideries were attached after makes me thankful I listened to my Scottish grandmother talk about a lot of the “training” they had as young girls before going on to be servants in a “big house”. Thank you for this amazing video.
As a SCA reenactor who hand-made my own gambeson (hand stitched that bastard too, which when you're going through layers and layers of linen and wool is a TASK) I can tell you 100% definitely just offhand that you sandwiched the batting between the layers and stitched it. Gambesons were a form of armor, and the dense layers of fabric and batting are what provided that protection. You don't want to leave any weak spots for the enemy to poke a hole through and into you.
They're also hot as hell to wear, which didn't perhaps matter much in cooler England, but if you're at Pennsic and it's 90F out, let me tell ya you're going to sweat your body weight every fifteen minutes or so (at least it FEELS like it!)
Toby! I love stumbling across him when wandering youtube. Such a phenomenal educator.
I've just started my journey in fashion design. I've always loved historical and vintage clothing/style. It's going to be a long journey but I aspire to do something like these ladies, or even work in museums around the world as a historic fashion curator or something along those lines. Not to mention I'd make, clothes and historical outfits for myself too. Absolutely love this series and hope to find more like it.
I can recommend "Prior Attire" and "Croweyeproductions" as well as "Bernadette Banner".
This is my type of show. Thank you so much for uploading it!
I wish there were many more episodes! So well done! Thank you.
I'm so glad I found this! 14:58 is very interesting, as a hema (historical European martial arts) practitioner there are many padded coats for sale for sparring. But almost all of them are of the first method where you get those thin areas with just stitching such as on the SPES gamberson, however it might be due to the use of an industrial sowing machine stitching it too tight as well. you can clearly see there is a vulnerability where the coat is very thin and I have actually experienced the stiffness which is a pain. A lot of people think the stiffness provides better protection but it doesn't as there is less energy dampening. I think I'll spend a bit more money and find someone to make one via the second method.
The gambeson/jupon in 2000 was hung in a glass case opposite the effigy about 20ft off the floor in the RH aisle because I visited it.. a long journey by train. Maybe it was moved in 1945 (as they say) from above the effigy to across the aisle but was there during 2000. The Canterbury Cathedral tourist booklet I purchased shows a pic of it hung in the place I mention. Another couple of reasons not mentioned concerning why he was called 'black' is that while King Edward III was fair his wife Phillipa of Hainault was dark. If you take a look at the brother of the Black Prince "John of Gaunt" his hair, beard etc,. was jet black. An Equiry was sent to Belgium to arrange the marriage of Edward and the returning description of Philippa bears out the nature of her complexion. Maybe the Prince followed his mother for looks as do most firstborns. The effigy itself which the Black Prince directed to be gilded and jewelled after his death was painted over with black paint to stop people meddling with the gold. Hence the iron rails. The precious stones in his crown have long since been picked out. The Black Prince also loved the colour black and had all his bankers, decor tapestries, done in black velvet with embroidered swans. but on this re-creation it looks like the label points are too long and overwhelm the jacket. Food for thought.
I adore the music on this show.
She is so pretty in that armor!! How is that possible!!
My grandpa used to be a tailer. I love to watch this and learn something about the old techniques. Great show!
After seeing how the garment was painstakingly laced up, I had this silly flashback to the time when my kids were little and I had just dressed them in a snowsuit and they ( of course) would say :"Mommy, I have to pee..."
Much better re-creation than the Dido gown.
Yes i was not a big fan of the Dido gown either, but the costumieres had really little to work on .
Empire Historian I know, but they couldn’t see the Dido Belle one entirely
Well, they did have a lot of advantages here compared to that one:
They could see it - unobscured - from several angles, and they could study the actual surviving garment.
Oh boy here everyone goes again. Everyone an armchair expert! We await the ‘I could do better than that’ diatribe! No you can’t & NO WE ARE NOT INTERESTED
~♡~ The historian David Green looks a wee bit like Alan Rickman ~♡~ LoL
Isn't this gorgeous? I love this. The Jupon is so beautiful looking. ❤ I wonder what it really feels like to wear something as awesome as this. I know that it is for battle purposes but to me it is just to pretty 😍 to wear. These are truly talented people that recreated something as wonderful as this.
The relatively simple historical reinactment garments (northern European 10th century) I have sewn last longer and wear harder than my modern clothing. I never aim to recreate the garments of the nobility, however. I greatly dislike standing still and worrying about my clothes. But I also lack the skill to do that kind of work. I make my toiles out of cotton (so out of period!) and the clothing out of linen, wool, and a bit of silk trim and some leather fittings.
She looks exactly what I thought Lucia Lucas from the Mapp and Lucia series looks like, when I read the first book without watching the series
For reference, £20 in 1350 would have been approximately £20,367.44 today!
"Approximately", down to the 0.44.
My forefather....such a treat to see this, eventhough he was cruel.
great series! I could also watch all day and never get bored.
So much money and (wo)man hours put into this one piece and Amber is as cute as a button!
Stuffing the tubes after they were sewn would have put undo stress on the fabric and risked making holes, a big no-no.
I can't believe they managed to find armour that would fit that tiny lady.
verdatum People were smaller then, I am sure there were some small guys. That or it was custom made for her!
People started training to be a knight in their teens and if your family were wealthy enough they could buy new armour with growth, obviously, it's not the same level used in battle but enough for sparring with friends and trainers. Others either wouldn't get armour until trained or it would be reforged/repurposed to save time and money or yeah people were smaller builds back in the day
My high school found a full set of late armor when the foundations were dug. We used it as a "mascot" and the only boy who could wear it was very short and stout. Kind of reduced the glamour of the armor!
Historical reinacting has become a huge hobby nowadays. Ive seen little ladies like her fully decked out in proper armor and kicking butt on the tournament field. It was probably made to fit her.
@@KateLove21 Although the peasant classes were a little shorter than today (average males being around 5' 6'',) the nobility were at least as tall as people are today. For example, Edward The Black prince was 6 feet tall. His father, Edward III was 5' 9'' . Edward III's father, Edward II was 6' 1'' and his father, Edward I was 6' 2''. Source: The Mississippi Quarterly
Vol. 10, No. 1 (January, 1957), pp. 29-41 (13 pages)
The reason that many suits of armour in museums are small is because they were designed for members of the ruling class who had not yet reached adulthood.
Amber in armor, wow 😍
This looks like a 13th century super hero! I’m amazed!
Love this show so much !
I stumbled upon this show on You tube and i LOVE IT! bring it to Canada so i can see more of it!
I want this show to last forever! There’s so many more iconic looks!
The recreation came out awesome!!! Great work to all involved. Now for the next episode...I'm hooked.
Really enjoy watching this Red Head!
Love her shoes!! And her outfits are so amazing!
I do wonder why they didn’t allow the ladies who actually created the garment to be the ones to see the original in person ... In any case, this series is fantastic.
they may have seen it, just not on camera
Ninya is based in Nottingham, traveling to Canterbury by train would be almost 3 hours. So it could be that Ninya couldn’t arrange such a trip due to her schedule.
I hope those ladies sewing are getting paid well.
I'm sure they are.
She looks like a mixture of R2D2 and someone from Alice in Wonderland in that armor 😃
Still, must have been an amazing experience!
When 600 years old you are, look as good you will not!
Great show, and so much to learn. I would like to have seen the armor on a tall lithe MAN, because I want to visualize the actual Plantagenet Black Prince, who was well over six feet tall.
Ninya presented with a worn outfit:
"Let's make it new."
I think Ninya hates weathering.
it's just so satisfying to know you have repaired it to last many many more years... I use old baby clothes for making doll dresses and yes turning the worn out and ripped clothing into new articles is so much fun.
stahp pls I think she just loves a great comparison... a stunning before and after is what I think she enjoys most.
This overcoat would work well in a cold climate.
Beautiful project, programming and production all stitched together nicely.. saves nine!😉
That garden is so beautiful!
Wonderful show keep it going please..from Miami Florida sooo glad I found you😀
Love this series ❤
Lovely series, super interesting
Medieval knights must have been extremely ripped with all that exercise using their whole bodies... quite a sport.
Thankyou for a wonderful program.
what a brilliant show!
That looks amazing.
Incredible episode.
Yea he slaughtered halve of France but his clothes are lovely.
Don't worry too much, he's dead now.
triggered by someone in the 14th century? LOL
thank you for being triggered by warfare! so much better than to be so blasé about it like some.
@Lee Holstein 🤔 wrong words
aine71 Well the French would have done the same.
...interesting! - thanks for sharing!...
What are they doing with these outfits after completion, I would imagine the Cathedral would like to display it.
I love this series. Will there be any more episodes?
What a legend
Love this show
Amazing video! !!! I love it:)!!!
Beautiful work, and narration
So Glad I found this channel, I love these programs. They're amazing.
Fascinating.
This is just fascinating.
Very nice video, would have liked more.
.... I love it. it's W O W.
Wonderful
Dressed with the jubon of the Black Prince she looks like Prince Valiant from the american comic strip. Just the same haircut. She looks great :) The work of the dressmakers is so interesting.
I got such Joan of Arc of vibes! In most of the paintings I've seen, the painters always give her that same pageboy hairstyle.
11:03 Gutermann is love, Gutermann is life 🧵🪡
medieval knights mustve been hella ripped ;P
I just saw an Alan Rickman look alike
Juvenile question, but how did they go to the bathroom? More importantly, would the servants get mad if the Prince was like, "Yo, I need to pee." after getting him dressed?
Evette Champion
I think the trousers had a flap like closure in front and since the metal part ends at high hip level...peeing shouldn’t have been a problem. Although he might have needed someone else to actually open the garment and take out the little prince for him...
Rara Avis thanks! I figured it would have been a practical explaination.
Fun fact: I once met a man in full plate-armour at a ren fair. His armour didn't have convenient flaps or hinges, and he said he played a delicate balancing act all day between dehydration and trying not to piss his pants
The real honest answer? Well. If you were in the thick of battle or lined up ready for one to start, and you really had to go..you just went. No taking off anything, you just went right there in your pants.
One of the jobs of a squire was scrubbing the blood, piss, and shit out the armor of his master after a battle.
@@raraavis7782 hahaha
I would love to wear something like this...!!! It would make me feel really manly and would alleviate dysphoria...
The host of the show is really gorgeous with all the right amount of brain