Early and High Medieval Gallery



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Norman Man



A Norman man in a green tunic, blue hosen, brown leather belt and brown turnshoes, with his hands resting on a sword held in front of him, the point on the ground. he is standing against a fireplace in a stone castle wall.





High Medieval Heraldic Surcoat



A medieval knight in full armour (mail with additional plate, and a full face helmet), standing before a castle wall, his heater shield across his body, and sword drawn, and wearing a quartered linen surcoat that matches his shield, black in quarters 1 and 4, red in quarters 2 and 3, with white fleurs de lys in all quarters.





A High Medieval Knight on Horseback



A high medieval knight in full mail, blue and yellow heraldic surcoat, and gambeson, riding a horse that is running straight at the camera, against a background of trees.
The knight is bending forwards to spear something on the ground with his lance.





A Norman Woman's Dress



Detail of a Norman woman's dress, in a bright blue wool, trimmed with a band of red silk at the scoop neckline. The picture shows the upper part of the dress.
The red silk is embroidered with a repeating design of blue circles, surrounded by a silver border, and with silver crossed in the centres (the design taken from a fragment of embroidery in the V&A Museum, dating to c.1000AD).





High Medieval Woman's Dress



A 12th century woman's dress / kirtle - a medium blue linen dress, with wide drop sleeves in the French style, and a very full gored skirt, trimmed with bands of red linen at the sleeve ends, the hem, and the low neckline. The sleeves are lined in the same red linen.





A 12th century woman's dress / kirtle - a medium blue linen dress, with wide drop sleeves in the French style, and a very full gored skirt, trimmed with bands of red linen at the sleeve ends, the hem, and the low neckline. The sleeves are lined in the same red linen.



An 11th century woman's dress in wine coloured wool with linen tablet braid at the neck worn over a pink linen shift with a beaded twill woven girdle.



Detail of the linen tablet braid at the neckline of the 11th century dress in the previous picture



A high medieval dress in a bright blue wool, with (machine) embroidered silk satin bands at the sleeves and neckline.



Detail o f the neckline of the previous dress, showing the (machine) embroidery. The ground is silk satin, and the silver and blue embroidery is based on a fragment of medieval embroidery in the V&A textile study centre.



A simple early - high medieval dress, in a green wool, with rust linen edging at the neck and sleeves.



An Anglo-Norman dress in a diaper patterned linen, with green contrast at the neck, and green lined sleeves that fold back.



A high medieval knight, wearing full armour, and a surcoat quartered black and red, in linen, with woollen appliqued fluers de lys. See below for the matching gambeson.



Anglo Norman clothing and gambeson, one of a set of six outfits, for English Heritage.



High medieval surcoat in linen. Child sized. Sewn from individually cut pieces of linen, not printed. For Tamworth Castle.



A plain brown linen surcoat, over a simple over-the-head gambeson.



High medieval surcoat in blue and yellow linen.



A selection of surcoats made or altered by me. Left-right: white linen with a red bar and three parrots blue and white quartered linen, to which I appliqued a red lion on the breast the red and black quartered surcoat previously seen red linen with a golden bar and six crossed crosslets.



An early medieval tunic in red linen, with blue gores, and yellow and blue triangular edging.



A 13th century tunic with long dagging, made in diaper patterned linen, and with red and green edging.



A yellow high medieval tunic based on a manuscrpt illustration, with a single slit over the front left thigh – made in yellow diaper patterned linen.



A yellow linen tunic with red and blue contrasts at the neckline, cuffs, hem, and split.



A man standing in front of a castle wall and tents, holding a bunch of arrows in one hand, and wearing a mint green linen tunic, with pink contrast at the neck, cuffs, and hem.



White woollen cappa of the Knights Templar, with large red cross on the left breast.



An Anglo Norman man in a green woollen tunic, blue hosen, brown leather belt, and brown turnshoes, with his hands resting on sword held in front of him, the point on the ground, standing against a fireplace in a stone castle wall. For English Heritage, at Clifford's Tower, York.



A 14th century garnache, made in a rust coloured Donegal tweed.



Neckline detail of the previous garnache, showing the pewter buttons with green glass, at the neckline.



A woman wearing a blue woollen dress with burgundy gores and wide sleeve turnbacks, with a petrol blue and grey mantle, and a white veil, standing next to a man wearing a brown wool twill tunic, a green and yellow tweed cloak, and a dark green woollen hood. Made for chesterfield Museum, for HM Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Chesterfield.



A brown woollen unsplit early - high medieval tunic, with red linen edging at the neck and cuffs.



A man wearing an early – high medieval rust linen split tunic, with cream edging at the split and cuff.



A moulded dragon head and cape.



Brown woollen single legged hosen.

I usually have a few pairs of these in stock, off the peg, in various colours and sizes, or I can make to measure.



A high medieval plaited woollen belt.



Pale blue linen early medieval veil, with blue woollen tablet braid.
Braid by Tanya.



Green Donegal tweed four pannelled hat, with turned back hem.



A 'bishop's mitre' in purple wool, with gold and silver braid, fringe, and applique crosses. For English Heritage.



Yellow woollen early – high medieval hood, lined in linen.



14th century buttoned hood in red Donegal tweed.



Detail of buttons in the previous picture.



Side view of the hood in the previous pictures, showing the short liripipe.



Early – high medieval hood, in brown leather, lined in linen.



13th - 14th century liripiped hood in yellow wool, lined with brown wool. View shows the hood lying flat.



Early – high medieval rectangular cloak, with an outer of yellow Donegal type tweed, and a grey woollen lining. Shown draped and pinned around a dummy.



Two early medieval mantle style cloaks on dummies. To the left, a red woollen adult sized mantle lined with grey wool to the right, a grey woollen child sized mantle, lined with pink wool.



A group of Knights Templar standing side on to the camera. Two of them (2nd from the left and second from the right) wearing white cloaks with red crosses made by me. Made for Griffin Historical.



One of the Knight Templar cloaks from the previous picture. This view shows the back of the white woollen hooded cloak, on a dummy.



Front view of the Knight Templar white woollen hooded cloak in the previous picture, this time photographed from the right front, and showing the red cross at the right breast.



Deborah Lough – All designs, text, and photos are design right or copyright Deborah Lough, 1997-2022