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Bruno Giordan
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| James Barker wrote: | | Mikael Ranelius wrote: | | Fustian is a linen and cotton blend, the name is supposedly derrived from Al-Fustat (present day Cairo) in Egypt where cotton fabric was made and exported during the Middle Ages. I have bought some fustian for my aketon/pourpoint-project - it's a sturdy, tabby-woven fabric similar to canvas or sail-cloth. |
Fustian in the middle ages was not a blend but a material with linen running the long way (warp) and cotton the short way (weft). If you buy a table cloth from Historic Enterprises they are a true fustian.
On warm layers I have not seen the most common medieval technology mentioned; a fur lining. Fur is super common; but if you fur line realize that the poor used certain furs and the rich used better furs.
I wore a gown lined in fur over a doublet and hose in 20 degree weather with getting cold at MTA in 07. We had sleet durning the day 
The way I see it the fitted kirtle comes about somewhere between 1340-1350, before then the garments are tunics with tighter fits and the lower class use tunics for quite a while after. Also don’t forget looser fitting gowns that get popular in the mid 14th century; Herjolfsnes has a few but look at the patterns closely because some are big in the waist and some taper in at the waist and out at the hips giving a tighter fit in the body. Marc Carlson’s site has good info:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/tunic2.html |
Ok, i checked it wikipedia for fustagno and its description matches exactly that of fustain, so we acn be sure that in the middle age and beyond they were the same thing.
Alas, it also said that modern fustagno produced in Italy does not contain linen anymore.
here we have an in-depth, documented article on medieval fustain /fustagno production
http://hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/i/I13959.php (italian9
french and german evrsion of the article here
http://hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F13959.php?PHP...06efae32d2
http://hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D13959.php?PHP...06efae32d2
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