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Making a Padded Coif

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Sir Wolf:
well..... your using cotton badding. ;) so I won't worry tooooo much about it.

Ian:

--- Quote from: Sir Wolf on 2014-02-28, 21:14:38 ---well..... your using cotton badding. ;) so I won't worry tooooo much about it.

--- End quote ---

lol, yes... if you want to be super-authentic stuff it with raw cotton.  I prefer batting, cuz I'm lazy :)  And no one's going to cut open your coif to check :)

Sir Douglas:
If you wanted to be super authentic, wouldn't you have to stuff with with wool/straw/tow/hair? Cotton had to be imported to medieval Europe from India or something, didn't it?

But that's getting way too nitpicky for me. I use poly thread, too. ;)

Ian:
Cotton was available, it just wasn't commonly used in everyday clothing because it was probably a pain to process.  It was blended with linen to make fustian of course.  One problem to is that Medieval people are documented to refer to cotton as 'wool' so things get tricky.  There are cases of Medieval Europeans referring to cotton plants as wool-bearing plants.  So who knows what they really meant all the time!  Cotton fabric was most common in Italy (and by most common I mean rare, but more available than the rest of Europe) from what I know, and eventually spread during the renaissance.

For stuffing, you don't need to spin it in to thread, and if there's a seed or two in there, who cares.  But yes, wool/straw/tow/hair are all appropriate stuffings.

Sir Wolf:
cotton was from egypt. and it was known in italy for drapes. so why are you wearing curtains on your head? lol










ian i will know...............

raw cotton works, or layered fulled wool..... or cotton batting hehehehe

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