early medieval dress clotild red blue Pantserhandschoenen en -wanten gambeson leg protection

gambeson leg protection

The number of mm inside the ring is the correct size

Fibulae of this type were worn until the first century AD

Tunics of this type were basic garments worn by men throughout Europe from the Early to Late Middle Ages

permitting even greater protection for the knees

early medieval dress clotild red blue Pantserhandschoenen en -wanten gambeson leg protectionThe dress is based on a sixth century archaeological excavation of clothing fragments found in a women's grave near present day Dortmund. Early medieval images in illuminated manuscripts from the eighth and ninth centuries offer a more complete picture of this type of clothing, such as the Stuttgart Psalterium. The dress is particularly well suited to re enacting and LARP of the Great Migrations, Merovingians and Franks. Manuscripts show that dresses