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As a part of our recreation, we wear clothing derived from historical styles known as garb. This garb can vary from faithful recreation of specific items of clothing based on paintings and archaeological finds, to taking the style of specific forms of clothing to creating our own variations, using our own heraldic colours and available materials to create the feeling that we are living in centuries past. Whilst you can see garb in many forms from all cultures pre-1600, members of Phoenix Rise largely wear Viking and Crusader era garb, with some also wearing later period English and Italian styles.
This page has been broken up into the work of group members with completed items and progress shots of garb being made, and general helpful links for making your own.

Finished garb made by members of the group

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  A sideless surcoat from the fourteenth century, showing the group heraldry

Ludewicus' garb made for serving in the royal household of Gilbert I and Bethony I, AS L-LI

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  Completed top

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  Getting the right fit

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  Looking swish

Works in progress

April's Early 16th Century garb based on Raphael's Lady with a Unicorn c.1505

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  The intended look, from "Lady with a Unicorn," Raphael, c. 1505, Oil on wood, 65 x 51 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome.

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  A mock-up pattern of the bodice, before cutting out the base layer of the real one

Auicia's Bliaut, a 12th century dress.

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  The torso cut out

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  Gores to go in from the waist

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  The dress waiting on sleeves, lacing and the decorative neckline

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  Lining the sleeves using off cuts

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  The sleeve ready to attach

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  Almost done, now for the lacing and neckline decoration

• == Costuming Links ==