#kampfrau

[cy-lindric]

Last day at the festival !

[anamelessfool]

Verlorene Haufen

Edelweiss Ghoul's Last Tour of Earth

Germanic Frontier, 1530

No it was not fun, no

[luenelsdesign]

Renaissance summer seems to be a theme of this summer for me. I am finishing my trossfrau outfit and torn between trying to make it a bit more historically accurate and to “slash it all”.

“det gör detsamma vart du går och vem du var, ty minnet av en god kamrat skall alltid dröja kvar” 

[bax390]

#inshot 🤗 #picoftheday #renaissance #16thcentury #livinghistory #kampfrau #trossfrau #Germanrenaissance #historicalsewing ##traditinal #historic #landsknecht #roideloiseau  #Traditional #costume #photographer #photography  #bax #bax390 🤗 https://www.instagram.com/p/B27UOaVIqcP/?igshid=1plq6uebijyh3

[sartorialadventure]

German Renaissance fashion (click to enlarge)

1. 16th century German dress based on the art of Lucas Cranach 2. 16th century German Renaissance gown by Evergreen Artes 4-6. 16th century 7-8. 16th century kampfrau by Zeitenmode 9. 16th century Saxon court gown 10. 16th century kampfrau

Landsknechte (German plural, singular Landsknecht) were mercenaries from the late 15th to the late 16th century. Knecht, meaning servant, helper, or stooge, was also used for the paid foot soldiers that were to be known as the Landsknecht. The format of the German mercenaries was inspired from the Swiss army, as was the dress fashion.

The tross were the camp followers who traveled with each Landsknecht unit, carrying the military necessities, food, and belongings of each soldier and his family. The tross were made up of women, children, and some craftsmen. The name of the women traveling with the landsknecht came be known as kampfrau or trossfrau. Neither is a period name even though today they are used to describe the group of “females hanging with the landsknechts”.

The fraue was the person the Landsknecht was legally married to, even though they also had a sort of fake marriage that happened when the leaders tried to regulate the number of women following the tross. Since the war campaigns usually started during spring, this kind of marriage was known as a may marriage and the wife known as mai fraue. Whure was a women who wasn’t married to the man she followed, kind of like a modern partnership with a man and a women. Dirne was the prostitute who made her living by selling her services, and they even could be found in the payrolls as a legal worker during the war campaigns. Some men left their wife at home while they in the field had a mai fraue or a whure who helped him and took care of him during the war campaign. The women also took part in the looting of the battlefield as a way to make some extra money for living. Some of the women also had a professional role in the camp as neterin (seamstress) or lautenschlagerin (lute player), etc.

The most popular theory about the elaborate dress is that it started as loot from the battlefield, and was then altered to fit the new wearer. A new leg replaced the old one, a piece of brocade became a trim, etc, which can be done easiest by slashing the parts that might be too tight. The style of dress later developed and eventually became so flamboyant that Kaiser Maximilian I exempted it from the prevalent sumptuary laws as an acknowledgement of their “…short and brutish” lives. One theory though claims that Kaiser Maximilliam had trouble controlling the Landsknechts and therefore gave them the freedom to dress as they wanted rather than seem like a weak ruler. (From a great source on kampfrau clothing!)

[demonindistress]

Landsknecht asså👌🖤

[deartreadmill]

Almost done my Kampfrau Captain America dress!!!!

[mlynn-tulipchewer]

“herringbone isnt period”

“t tunics arent period”

i’m not really sure i give a fk. cuz herringbone is pretty and everyone wears it, and t-tunics are easy.

besides, i’ve always felt like whether or not something is period in our game is how it looks, not how it was fking made. i can add accents and shaping to make a t-tunic dress look like a kampfrau. ...

if its not good enough to get into the house than so fking be it. i’m the one wearing it, not anyone else in the house.

theres someone else in the house that wear a purely fantasy princess cut dress all the time... my attempt ought to be good enough

not like i’m going for laurel in sewing or accuracy or something

and i can’t really win - i start talking about making things a little differently so that it is more accurate, with pleats and everything, and you get super dismissive or whatever like “yeah have fun with that...” like discouraging. or try to talk me through how you would do it instead of just letting my do my thing and give help when i ask. but then i do ask and you say you dont know you’re not the fabric person... so wtf

[hunlarpfag]

In Landsknecht and Kampfrau outfit at a local con. photo by Ecsedi Sándor

[olovs]

Finished my second solo project in school. It's a trossfrau! Based on a costume made by Emelie Sandström!

[avatrefeather]

KampFrau - Tellerbarret 

etsy shop 

[surikane]

Hey look it’s also me in the yellow kamp frau dress!

Last day at the festival !

[libby-elsa-sewing-blog]

Photo 1: I'm putting them pretty closely together. Sewing with one long strand, doubled. I'd wax my thread if my beeswax were handy. Work one eye, knot the thread a few times, work a hook. Opposite for the other side of the bodice opening. Photo 2: I'm sewing them so a small fold in will line them up right on the edge

[bax390]

#inshot 🤗 #picoftheday #renaissance #16thcentury #livinghistory #kampfrau #trossfrau #Germanrenaissance #historicalsewing #traditinal #historic #landsknecht #roideloiseau  #Traditional #costume #photographer #photography  #bax #bax390 🤗 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2zgULojDw_/?igshid=1npxskxkyfget

[demonindistress]

Proknekt på marsch, Vadstena.

[krushak-dagra]

Kampfrau by kostym.cz