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For so long, Larsdattar was the go to for extant sources, however, over time many of the links have broken and its focus was on Europe.  I thought to pick up the torch and expand upon the represented cultures.

If you have a link or a source that isn't listed here, please leave a comment so that I can include it after checking out my methodology.

Accessories

Aprons

Belts & girdles

Plaque belts

Wide belts

Eyeglasses

Fans

Garters

Gloves & mittens

Hairnets

Hairpins

Handkerchiefs

Masks

Vizards & Invisories

Perfume and incense

Pomanders

Ruffs and falling collars

Zibellini


Bags

Shepherds’ budgets

Pilgrims’ scrips

Pouches & purses

Framed Purses

Drawstring Pouches

Saddlebags

Sweetbags

Wallets & shoulder-sacks


Children & Motherhood

Bibs for babies
Children’s clothing
Maternity clothes
Slings for carrying infants

Footwear

Boots

Hose

Ice Skates

Pattens

Sandals

Shoes

Headwear

Beaded-edge veils

Coifs

Bycockets 

Chaperons

Coloured veils 

Crowns, Diadems, & Fillets

French Hoods

Frilled veils, goffered veils, ruffled veils, kruseler, etc.

Hats

Hennins

Hoods

Gentlemen's nightcaps

Tailed caps and related late 15th century women’s coifs

Turbans

Straw hats

Stuchleine

Jewelry

Badges

Bracelets

Brooches

Annular and penannular brooches

Brooches

Pilgrim badges

Chains 

Collars, pectorals, and torcs

Collars of rank

Earrings

Hair-pins

Necklaces

Pendants

Piercings

Pins and needles

Rings

Arm rings 

Jeweled rings

Posy rings 

Signet rings

Rosaries & paternosters


Undergarments

Breeches & braies

Bodies/Corsets/Stays

Hose

Shirts (for men)

Smocks (for women)

Underwear

Literary references to clothing and accessories

    Garments & armor in The Canterbury Tales
    Garments in the works of Henryson
    Garments in the Paston Letters

 

Animals & Mythical Creatures

Anteater

Antelope 

Armadillos

Axolotl

Badgers

Bats

Bears

Beavers

Beehives

Birdcages 

Boar/Pigs 

Bonnacons

Butterflies

Camels

Cats

Chickens

Cows and bulls

Deer

Dogs

Dolphins

Donkeys

Dragons

Ducks

Eagles

Elephants

Fish

Foxes

Frogs 

Geese 

Giraffes

Goats

Griffins

Guinea Pigs

Hedgehogs

Horses

Hyena

Jaguars

Kangaroo 

Keythong

Leopards

Lions

Llama

Lynx

Merfolk

Mole 

Monkeys/Apes 

Octopus 

Oppossum 

Ostriches

Otter

Owls

Parrots

Peafowl

Pelicans

Porcupines

Quail 

Rabbits/Hares 

Rats/Mice

Rhinoceroses 

Sharks 

Sheep

Sloths

Snakes 

Squirrels

Stoats/Weasels/Ferrets/Mustelids

Tapir

Tigers 

Turtles/Tortoises

Unicorns

Wolves

Armour

Chainmail

Gambesons

Helms

Shields

Agriculture

Cabbage 

Harrows

Ploughs

Seed-sowers

Sheep-shearing

Shepherds

Arts & Industries

Archers
Archery quivers and arrow cases
Archery targets

Watermills & windmills

Coopers
Glassworkers
Glaziers
Illuminators & illustrators
Joiners
Painters & limners
Parchment-makers
Potters
Saddlers
Sculptors
Shoemakers
Tanners
Wheelwrights

Education & Literacy

Bookbinders
Inkwells & inkhorns
Penners
Schools & teachers
Scribes, scriveners, and their tools
Wax tablets

Entertainment

Acrobats

Commedia dell'Arte

Dancing

Fools & jesters

Jugglers

Music

Percussion instruments 

Plate-spinners

Sheet music

Singers

Stilt-Walkers

Taverns & alehouses

Trained bears

Woodwind instruments

Gastronomy

Bakers

Beer-brewers

Cheesemakers

Cooks & kitchens

Fishing

Hunters

Mortars and pestles

Pretzels

Spits

Sugar

Taverns & alehouses

Trammel chains and hooks

Wafers

Book Arts

Books of hours and the labors of the seasons
Girdlebooks
Rolls of Arms

Clothing

Burgundian gowns

Buttons

Coats and jackets

Cod pieces

Clothing worn by the blind

Dagged clothing

Doublets

Flemish dresses

Houppelandes

Housebook dresses 

Inside-out clothing

Jerkins

Kaftans

Knit garments

Lacing rings

Loincloths and breechclouts 

Loose gowns 

Nålebound garments

Pants

Particolored clothing

Partlets and Gollars

Patched & darned clothing

Saxon/Cranach gowns 

Sleeves

Tippets & Sleeve Streamers

Tunics

Romani clothing

Wedding dresses

Containers

Baskets

Buckets

Canteens, costrels, & flasks

Cupboards

Leather cases

Sacks

Boxes, caskets, and coffers

Bone & ivory boxes

Bentwood boxes

Carved wooden boxes

Cassoni

Chests & trunks

Enamel boxes

Illustrations of boxes

Lacquered boxes

Leather boxes

Metal boxes

Painted wooden boxes

Velvet-covered wooden boxes

Wooden boxes with decorative inlay

Wooden boxes with decorative metal mounts


Embroidery & Needlework

    Karen’s Embroidery Library
    Appliqué
    Beadwork
    Cross Stitch Embroidery in the Middle Ages and Renaissance*
    Gloves & mittens

Goldwork
    Handkerchiefs
    Ladies’ jackets
    Klosterstickerei (a style of narrative embroidery used for wall-hangings in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance)
    Gentlemen’s nightcaps
    Designing your own Oxburgh-style embroidery
    Embroidered coifs
    Samplers
    Voided work and Assisi work

Furniture & domestic material culture

Automatons 

Brooms

Carpets

Chests & trunks

Cupboards

Doors

Gardens

Incense burners

Keychains & keyrings

Padlocks

Pillows & cushions

Prie-dieux

Tables

Tablets

Windows of crown glass/bullseye glass

Seating

Benches

Chairs

Settles

Sleeping

Beds

Bedcovers

Cradles

Timekeeping

Calendars

Clocks & Hourglasses

Sundials

 

Games & Pastimes

Ball games

Board games

Card games

Dice games

Dolls 

Hobbyhorses

Parlour games

Pull toys

Rattles

Snowballs

Stilts

Swimming

Swings

Toy knights

Toys

Water Jousting

Wrestling

Hygiene & Hairstyles

Baths

Combs & hair-combing

Cutting hair

Dressing & styling hair

Facial Hair 

Mirrors

Lighting

Braziers

Candleholders

Lamps

Lanterns

Leuchterweibchen & Lüsterweibchen

Torches

Medicine

Apothecaries
Crutches & canes
Doctors, physicians, surgeons, dentists, & quacks
Lepers

Metalwork

Anvils

Armorers

Blacksmiths

Bellows

Cutlers and knife-makers

Goldsmiths & jewellers

Grindstones for knife-sharpening

Nails & nailsmiths

Wire-drawers


Outerwear

Cloaks

Gardecorps

Huiks

Women’s sleeveless surcoats


Portraits

Includes traditional art as well as carvings, murals, etc. where clothing and accessories are identifiable.  In other words, these are primarily for garb research.

Each is categorized by the presumed culture of the sitter at the time of the portrait to reflect their aesthetics, rather than the one into which they'd been born.

Baltic Countries 

China

England

    House of Tudor 

India

Italy

Low Countries

Nordic Countries 

Russia 

Spain


Table Settings

Damask linen tablecloths & napkins

Drinking horns

Where to get replica feast gear

Perugia tablecloths

Perugia towels and napkins

Beakers

Bowls

Plates

Table carpets

Tankards 

Cutlery

Spoons

 

Textile

Blackwork embroidery 

Carding & combing wool

Drapers

Embroiderers

Extant Embroidery 

Extant Fabrics

Fingerloop braiding

Furriers

Hatmakers

Lacemakers

Laundry & launderers

Net-making

Scissors

Sewing kits, seamstresses, & tailors

Shearing wool

Spinning

Tapestries

Weaving & looms

Winding thread & yarn; includes niddy-noddies, bobbin-winders, and reels

 

Tools

Bakers’ molds

Bellows

Butter-churns

Cauldrons & pots

Flesh hooks

Hammers

Kitchens

Ovens

Gridirons & grills

Shackles

Shovels

Spits

Spurs

Trammel hooks

Winepresses

Trade

Cheesemongers
Drapers
Fishmongers
Furriers
Merchants’ booths
Merchants’ stalls
Peddlers, hawkers, itinerant tradesmen, & street-vendors

Prostitutes

Scales, balances, & weights


Vessels & Wells

Aquamaniles

Beakers

Canteens, costrels, & flasks

Enamelled glassware

Ewers

Fountains

Flagons

Lusterware

Mazers

Nefs

Ostrich-egg cups

Pitchers, jugs, and ewers

Salt cellars

Wells

Maiolica

    Maiolica arcaica
    Zaffera a rilievo
    Stile severo
    Stile bello
    Stile istoriato
    Belle Donne

Crime and punishment

    Pirates
    Stocks & pillories

Tournaments, Knighthood, and Armory

Banners & flags

Caparisons

Enclosures & list-fences

Galleries

Heralds

Knighting ceremonies

Livery

Men’s heraldic surcoats

Pavilion construction

Quintains

Trumpet-banners

Women in armor

Women riding astride

Travel

Astrolabes

Maps and globes

Mariners' compasses

Sailors

Handbarrows

Litters, palanquins, and sedan chairs

Rowboats

Ships

Sleds

Sleighs

Stretchers & Biers

Wagons

Wheelbarrows

Wheelwrights

Weapons

Battle axes 

Crossbows

Daggers

Firearms

Maces

Polearms

Slings

Swords

Sabers 

War hammers

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