#mid 16th century

[ltwilliammowett]

The Mary Rose, by Geoff Hunt (1948-)

[jeannepompadour]

Códice de Trajes, costumes from the realms of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, made in Germany in mid 16th century (1540s-1550s)

Prussia

Prussia and Friesland

Schwabia and Elzach

Juelich

Frisia

Germany

German dance

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526/1527-1593) "Winter" (1563) Oil on wood Located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @myryathedreamer 💚💜

[shrips]

the time I built the entire kiersau abbey in TS4 bc I’m normal

[kultofathena]

✨New From Wulflund✨

Mid 16th Century Gothic Flanged Mace (APW102) is finely styled in gothic fluting and angular styling and its all steel construction is durable.

Eastern European Medieval Flanged Mace (APW100) has a large and robustly crafted head of antique finished high carbon steel which is securely pinned and mounted to a thick hardwood haft.

Corvus Warhammer (ETC01) has all the tools at hand needed to defeat and mangle the heaviest of armors; when wielded by a capable hand it combines the concussive and shattering power of an all steel hammer head with a large armor-puncturing pick.

Thor’s Hammer (APW64) This huge warhammer is a fitting size for Thor himself and a larger than life centerpiece to a collection. This burly weapon fit for a Saga has a head that is crafted from plates of steel which are welded together to keep the inside of the hammer hollow to ensure it is weighty, but not excessively so.

Partisan Head of Frederick Augustus I (APW121) is a replica of the ones used by the court guards of Elector Frederick Augustus I (1694 – 1697) and is a fine example of the late form of the Partisan. It is crafted from high carbon steel and its socket measures approximately 1″ / 26 mm and is intended to attachment to your own haft which is tapered and tailored to fit.

[mypocketsnug]

had a dream about wearing a soft warm brown leather maison margiela jacket from 2004 and then coming across an insane mcqueen tudor inspired jacket from like 98 that was all supple calfskin but had huge puffed out shoulders then went skin tight below the elbow and had a doublet piece attached too and it was all leather .. it was beautiful im so mad it wasnt real lol

slightly similar to these

[solidcarbon]

if you could time travel to any period in the past, just to observe you cant interact with anything, where would you go

ouuugh in the past? probable late 1890s or 1900. also maybe somewhere in 1920-30s but not past that point.

something something is very special to me in how one era of industrial progress and the way of living evolved into another (and very different!) one. and 20th century has its own unique charm for me, so

[ltwilliammowett]

A French Galleon from Guillaume Le Testu's Cosmographie Universelle 1555

[jeannepompadour]

Códice de Trajes, costumes from the realms of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, made in Germany in mid 16th century (1540s-1550s)

Friesland and Metz

Netherlands and Gederland

Gelerland

Portugal

Genoa

Spain

Spanish dance

[intertexts]

really delightful to realize that like yeah folks have always been fucking unhinged about love.

[memories-of-ancients]

Rapier with gold and silver decorated hilt, blade crafted by Peter Wirsberg of Solingen, Germany. Hilt decorated by Diego de Caias of Milan, Italy. Mid 16th century

from The Dresden National Art Collection

[english-history-trip]

15th century (Houppelande the Ritz)

Early 16th century (God please, not the codpiece)

Late 16th/early 17th centuries (That's ruff, buddy)

Mid-17th/early 18th century (If it ain't Baroque, fix it)

Mid-18th century (Big tent party)

Late 18th/early 19th century (Empire state of mind)

Mid-19th century (Hoop springs eternal)

Late 19th-early 20th century (Hustle and bustle)

1910-20s (Ankles aweigh)

[kultofathena]

Mid 16th Century Gothic Flanged Mace – Wulflund

This Gothic Flanged Mace is more robustly built than most and it has the heft needed to powerfully smash and batter asunder even the heaviest of armored defense. The mace is finely styled in gothic fluting and angular styling and its all steel construction is durable. Unlike cruder maces, a gothic mace such as this was a finely crafted item intended to deliver destruction from the armored fist of a knight or professional man at arms.

Please Note: Some light pitting or light spotted rust may be present. Most of this cosmetic blemishing can be removed with scuff pads

[canisalbus]

I LOVE your art!! especially the very specific ways to depict intimacy. It feels very real, it's so so tender but there is often that sheer layer of tension that makes me want to consume as much as your art as possible. I hope I'm not bothering ypu, but what's the porch of your two characters? I love them, I love their dynamic.

Aa thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you like my stuff :>

You probably mean my current main characters, Vasco (the golden floppy-eared dog) and Machete (the pointy white dog). They're a couple living in the late 16th century Italy, at the very end of the Renaissance era. Vasco comes from a wealthy noble background and has a career in politics. Machete is a catholic cardinal, and as a secretary of state he oversees Vatican's foreign politics. Due to their surroundings they have to keep their relationship strictly secret.

Vasco originates in and lives in Florence. Machete is originally from Sicily and lives in Rome. They first met in their late teens/early adulthood when they were both studying in Venice. They were best friends before their feelings deepened, but eventually they had to separate. Machete graduated and was ordained a priest as intended. Vasco dropped out and returned home, where his family pressured him into wedlock. He ended up in a lavender marriage with a lesbian noblewoman named Ludovica (the red and white spaniel), she also has her own partner (still unnamed). Vasco and Ludovica are close friends, they get along well and cover each others' backs, but their union is purely platonic.

Machete and Vasco reunited in their early thirties by random chance, largely because they both work in foreign relations, and quickly resumed where they left off. They don't live together and can only see each other intermittently. Usually it's Vasco who visits Machete in Rome under the guise of working as a Florentine ambassador, but sometimes Machete manages to find an excuse to travel to see Vasco as well. They stay together for over a decade, meeting in secret and maintaining regular correspondence when their duties keep them apart (and quietly come to regard each other as their spouse), until Machete gets assassinated in his early/mid fourties. Vasco lives to his seventies and dies of old age.

They also have a modern au, which works as a sort of a reincarnation situation. They get to be a couple openly, get married eventually and grow old together.

[dresshistorynerd]

Sewing mid-16th century Venetian dress in doll scale

My parents moved from my childhood home, so I needed to finally take all my old toys I want to keep to store myself, including my dolls. For a long while I've been thinking it might by fun to sew tiny historical clothing for dolls. I love watching doll customization videos, they are so satisfying, and I just really love it, when there's a normal sized thing and then you make it tiny. Especially if it's still functional and made from correct materials. I can't explain it better than tiny versions of bigger things just make me vibrate on higher level. Now that I have my dolls in my home and a box full of fabric scraps, I have everything I need to just start sewing. So I did. And it was extremely fun. I have already started working on a 1890s doll outfit.

This will show my age (not that it doesn't read in my bio), but my dolls are all mainly My Scenes. I was Team My Scene in the early 2000s Bratz vs. My Scene wars. I did not like the proportions of Bratzes. All my My Scenes are Madison, she was my girl.

Here's all the items I made. I tried to use as much historical methods as was possible on doll scale and hand-sewed everything. I made a shift, hose, dress, necklace, earrings, partlet and shoes. I did almost make detachable sleeves, but I wasn't happy with them and I will need to remake them. It took me so long to finish one sleeve and I was very frustrated when I wasn't happy with the result, so I will need some time to make a second attempt.

Underlayer

I have finer white cotton than linen so I used the cotton for the shift and partlet, even though cotton wasn't really used widely at the time, definitely not in underwear, but it worked better in this scale. I didn't have thin enough wool for the hose, so I used fabric from my old thin stockings. Knitted stockings were not quite yet a thing so that's not very accurate, but that's the best I got. I choose red since red hose seemed to have been pretty common based on Venetian paintings, where the hose are shown. I used tiny beads I had lying around as buttons for the sleeves.

I'm not super happy with the neckline. I couldn't come up with a good way to finish gathered neckline on this scale without making it bulky. In future I will try something else.

Overgarments

Dress

The dress itself is made from the remaining scraps of the lovely Latvian linen I bought many years ago from Riga and have already made several garments from. The skirt is cartridge pleated, though the pleats at places behave a little weirdly due to the scale. I used semi heavy linen as lining and finished the panels separately as was typical in 16th century. I didn't use any boning equivalent, but I use cording to reinforce the laced opening. I of course sewed tiny lacing holes, which was very fun. The cord for the lacing I plaited from heavy thread.

Here's couple of examples from 1550s and 1560s Venice I used as basis for the dress.

Partlet

A Venetian renaissance woman of course needs her boob window partlet. Unfortunately I didn't have any super sheer linen or silk to make the fashionable sheer look.

Shoes

The shoes are chopines, which were very fashionable in Venice at the time. They were platform slippers with wooden base, which were covered with leather or fancy fabrics, like brocade or velvet. I didn't make the heels super tall since I was going for more toned down merchant/artisan class sort of vibe, and the very tall were used by upper class women and courtesans. I carved the heels from soft wood and covered them with sateen.

For reference here's couple of 16th century Venetian chopines.