{"id":11,"date":"2018-02-20T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2019-05-22T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:43:56","slug":"first-post-and-the-bocksten-tunic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"First post and the Bocksten tunic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello world!<\/p>\n

This is the first post of the blog. It will the first one about my newest medieval tunic, based on the Bocksten man find.<\/p>\n

First, some background. I am working on reenacting a Portuguese Burgher from around the battle of Aljubarrota (1385). For now I am working in civilian garb, but I hope to include a military panoply one day.<\/p>\n

Now, some background.<\/h5>\n

The Bocksten man is a body that was found in Sweden, in Varberg Commun in a bog. Because of his oxygen poor location, his body had been remarkably well preserved, which includes his clothes.<\/p>\n

He was wearing a shirt, tunic, cloak, hose and a hood with liripipe.<\/p>\n

According do Dr. Albert Sandclef, this is how the pattern of the tunic would have been:<\/p>\n

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(source http:\/\/www.personal.utulsa.edu\/%7Emarc-carlson\/cloth\/bocktunc.html)<\/pre>\n
Lets get to work.<\/h5>\n
First things first – Time to choose the fabric for the project. I went with a woven wool tunic with a nice plaid pattern that reminded me of a painting  of a musician from the 14th century.<\/p>\n
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I then bought a roll of pattern paper. I used to make patterns on old newspapers, so you can do that, but I figured I would try with the “proper” stuff.<\/p>\n
Next time I will get started on the pattern itself!<\/p>\n
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Disclaimer:<\/p>\n
I am not a historian or a clothing historian. I am not a tailor. I am an enthusiast. If you want to make your own medieval clothing, feel free to use my blog as an inspiration or as a way to find sources, but copy me at your own risk since I maybe getting things wrong. Work from the sources, not other reenactors! If you want to use this design for Larp or Cosplay, then just go ahead.<\/p>\n
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Hello world! This is the first post of the blog. It will the first one about my newest medieval tunic, based on the Bocksten man find. First, some background. I am working on reenacting a Portuguese Burgher from around the battle of Aljubarrota (1385). For now I am working in civilian garb, but I hope … Continue reading First post and the Bocksten tunic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}