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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: July 2015
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Monday, 27 July 2015. Medieval clothing from Vienna part I. These three photos made by Andreas Praefcke (wikimedia commons) give an overview of the enormous painting of the family tree. The female wears a intricate necklace and a belt-type reminiscent of the male knightly belt of the late fourteenth century. The man wears a beautifully embroidered gown. Some of the men have married twice. The females have some open armwork, showing the underlying dress. The female on the right has a pointed hennin. The j...
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: August 2015
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Monday, 24 August 2015. The medieval toolchest: Reconstruction of a medieval plane. This post features a reconstruction of a medieval plane that was excavated in Greifswald in northern Germany. The descriptions have already been given in a previous post. As well as a glimpse of the reconstructed plane. During our visit to Castle Hernen. Bram decided to take the challenge to reconstruct this 14th century plane. The 14th century replica plane made by Bram. In the Höfburg, the MAK. Starting with the underwe...
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: Saffron bread
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Sunday, 19 July 2015. The just baked Saffron Bread. Two boxes of saffron. Some pepper kernels are given for size comparison. Ingredients (for two loafs). 500 g fine flour. 250 ml warm water. 17 gram yeast ( instead I used 2 sachets dry yeast dissolved for some time in handwarm applejuice with a bit of salt). 90 gram cane sugar. 50 ml olive oil. 15 eggs (or 1 medium and 1 small egg). The baked saffron bread. Some slices of the saffron bread. You can see the nice golden colour of the inside of the loaf.
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: Sources - other
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This page contains some links for interested readers to otherwise hard to obtain information, provided as pdf. You may download these pdf's for your own use, but further spread of the files on the internet is prohibited. We provide it as a service to you, please do not abuse it. The article by Horst Appuhn on Medieval turned chairs in use as thrones. In German, from an art history journal from 1978/1979. Chapter on woodworking tools found in the Mary Rose shipwreck. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). More about...
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: May 2015
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Thursday, 21 May 2015. St Thomas on holiday. The altarpiece of the Thomasbruderschaft der brauerknechte. From the Burgkiche in Lübeck, now in the St. Annenmuseum. In Lübeck in the St. Annenmuseum. The lower middle part of the altar piece with from left to right: Thomas of Aquino, Apostle Thomas and Thomas Beckett. Part of the predella, with the unbelieving St. Thomas and Christ in the middle. The backside of the right group of apostles from the predella. The Apostle on the right is St. Thomas. The back o...
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: October 2014
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Tuesday, 28 October 2014. The medieval toolchest: the plane (part 3). This post continues from the previous post. Planes without a toat. 8224; 1571) on folio 45r of the Landauer Zwolfbruderstiftung in Nuremberg, Germany. He is working with a plane with a toat, while a large try plane can be seen next to the window. Also remarkable is that this plane already had a grooved wedge; This is likely a necessity as a cross-pin held wedge would have weakened the plane to much. In France, a complete plane (except ...
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: December 2014
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Tuesday, 30 December 2014. New cookbooks and an old with a new recipe. During Saint Nicholas and Christmas time I have received and bought some new (at least for me) medieval cookbooks. These were:. The Book of Sent Sovi. Containing the recipes of a 14th century cookbook from Catalonia (Spain) (ISBN 978-185566164-6). Luckily for us, the Catalan language is translated into English, but the actual transition to modern cooking has to be done by ourselves. From the beginning of the 14th century as 'Romania'&...
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: Medieval clothing from Vienna part 2
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015. Medieval clothing from Vienna part 2. Continuing the story of the medieval clothing in Vienna, the next 'museum' to visit was the Stephansdom. This cathedral has some special rooms containing the treasury. Of the church, for a large part paintings of the 14th century. While most of the saints wear old-fashioned gowns, some images show the 'normal' close fitting 14th century dress. The blessed Virgin with Jesus and a pea flower. Westphalian, end of the 14th century. The next sev...
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: November 2014
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Tuesday, 25 November 2014. The faldistorium in the MAK in Vienna. The faldistorium from the Stift Admont dating from the early 13th century in the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst. The glass cage has been 'shopped' away. Nowadays you can only see the front and sides of the folding chair. The chair is painted in red, green, white, yellow-gold and black colours. In the basement, to a long row of chairs; the only being one locked in a plexiglas cage and behind a laser-guided alarm. However, this time photogr...
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St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: Sources - books
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Eames, P. 1977. Furniture in England, France and the Netherlands from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Furniture history, Volume XII. A thorough study with many black/white photographs. Thuis in de Middeleeuwen – het Nederlands burgerinterieur 1400-1535. 1980. Uitgeverij Waanders, Zwolle, the Netherlands. ISBN 90-70072661. [In Dutch]. Exhibition catalogue; among the items, several pieces of existing furniture displayed and an essay on types of furniture. Windisch-Graetz, F. 1982. Mobel Europ...Von F...
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