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Frans Pourbus il Giovane - Ritratto della Principessa Cristina di Francia, Duchessa di Savoja. 1612

#17th century #17th century clothing #women's clothing #frans pourbus il giovane

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acrosscenturiesandgenerations

▪Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg. Date: late 16th–mid-17th century Geography: Nuremberg Culture: German, Nuremberg Medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, gold and silver washes; paper bound in gold-tooled leather.

Source: metmuseum.org

#17th century #17th century armor #tournament

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by JestePhotography

Source: jestephotography.deviantart.com

#raven #bird #photography

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Burial clothes 1639, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

A gown in cut and uncut velvet woven to simulate strapwork… The interlaced pattern is in dark brown and sandy beige. No stiffening remians insode the deep shoulder wings but they were probably interlined with linen originally and the linen bodice has also disintegrated with the decomposing corpse. The gown was restored in 1914. The bodice would have fastened with hooks and eyes and the skirt was originally attached at the waist with cartridge pleats, judging from traces of crease marks. The gown is trimmed with dark brown silk braid. No sleeves have been preserved with the gown but they may have been made of linen and so disintegrated at the same time as the linen lining.

Patterns of Fashion: The cut and construction of clothes for men and women c1560-1620, Janet Arnold

#17th century clothing #17th century #women's clothing

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1608-1617 Bartolomé González - Leopold V, Archduke of Austria

#17th century #17th century clothing #men's clothing

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melanaegis

c1615-20 Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

1. A doublet in deep reddish-plum-coloured satin decorated with narrow stone-coloured silk braid and rows of pinking… The pinking may have been done after the layers were tacked together as some of the black linen and black silk [interlining] are cut as well. A layer of black wool is pad-stitched to the linen over the shoulders to prevent wrinkles around the armholes. It is layered to prevent any ridges showing through the satin. The doublet is lined with natural linen, the side seam set back from those in the satin, presumably to avoid bulk. A stiffened linen strip with worked eyelet holes for points to attach the breeches is stitched inside the waist… A strip of braid, folded in half to make a loop, is stitched on the belly-piece on both fronts, to be tied across, holding both sides together before buttoning the doublet.

c1615-20 Lord Middleton Collection, Museum of Costume and Textiles, Nottingham

2. A doublet in ivory silk with thin silver strip in the weft and a woven pattern of stylized floral motifs in heavier metal thread… The doublet is completely interlined with heavy linen canvas, with a narrow strip of linen pad-stitched down both fronts for extra stiffness beneath buttons and buttonholes. Over the shoulders, under the arms and across the back is a layer of brown woollen cloth, slightly felted, which is pad-stitched to the linen interlining. The doublet is lined with pink silk.

3. …Eyelet holes for points to attach the breeches are worked in the tabs forming the skirts of the doublet, instead of a waist strip. The ribbon points would have been tied in decorative bows. This drawing shows the present appearance of the doublet [missing wings, buttons, loops and braid].

Patterns of Fashion: The cut and construction of clothes for men and women c1560-1620, Janet Arnold

#17th century #17th century clothing #doublet #men's clothing

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A pistol dating from circa 1600-1625 made of steel, silver, wood, mother-of-pearl; engraved, encrusted, gilded, silver-gilt in the Moscow Kremlin Armoury workshops by the master Pervusha (Pervoy) Isaev whose maker’s mark in the form of a swan in a shield are featured on the lock plates. The lock-plates are engraved with floral ornament and a depiction of a subject popular in both Russian and made in the Russian Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow.

#17th century #17th century weapons #pistol #engraved

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Burial clothes 1639, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

A gown in cut and uncut velvet woven to simulate strapwork… The interlaced pattern is in dark brown and sandy beige. No stiffening remians insode the deep shoulder wings but they were probably interlined with linen originally and the linen bodice has also disintegrated with the decomposing corpse. The gown was restored in 1914. The bodice would have fastened with hooks and eyes and the skirt was originally attached at the waist with cartridge pleats, judging from traces of crease marks. The gown is trimmed with dark brown silk braid. No sleeves have been preserved with the gown but they may have been made of linen and so disintegrated at the same time as the linen lining.

Patterns of Fashion: The cut and construction of clothes for men and women c1560-1620, Janet Arnold

#17th century #17th century clothing #women's clothing

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1608-1617 Bartolomé González - Leopold V, Archduke of Austria

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chaosophia218

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s Demon Seals, originally drafted in the early 16th century (modern English translation and interpretation by Lupus Nensén).

Source: lupusnensen

#heinrich cornelius agrippa #demon #demon seals

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1646 Govert Flinck - Portrait of Dirck Graswinckel and Geertruyt van Loon

#17th century #17th century clothing #women's clothing #men's clothing

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Secluded Pond by Omegacetacean

#forest #woods #tree #nature #pond

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Abominations from the North: The Feldgeister

It’s kind of disappointing that the monster of Children of the Corn was simply your typical run-of-the-mill American Gothic abomination. Stephen King missed a big one there.

Now the real Children of the Corn, or the Feldegeister, are German agricultural demons. Farmers were quite wary of them and tried to appease them as much as they could, lest ruin and misery reached their door.

A cornfield haunted by these spirits will instantly create a menagerie of sentient lifeforms based entirely on corn and grains. Wolves, cats, goats, deers; any animal conceivable can manifest from the field. These animals can ravage flour supplies and cause grave illness to fall upon those they attack.

But the Feldgeister aren’t limited to just animals. They can appear as humanoid monstrosities too. The feared Getreidemann (“Grain Man”) stalks homes, bringing death to its inhabitants and causing blights to their supplies.

The Roggenmuhme (“Aunt Rye”) is another field demon, this time appearing as a wicked old lady that abducts children looking for cornflowers and leaving doppelgangers behind. Possibly related to her, are the Cornkind (“Corn Children”), mysterious children made entirely of corn.

Another member of these malevolent spirits are the Bilwis and the Windsbraut (Wind’s bride) who take the shape of deadly windstorms that sweep the field clean of any grain. The Bilwa is additionally thought as sneaking into homes and cause all manner of chaos, using its windy powers to tangle hair and beards and causing illness and nightmares.

The only way of getting rid of the Feldgeister is by mowing down the field. The spirits will flee deeper into the field until they are cornered, they will either die when the last cornstalk is mowed or be imprisoned inside a corn doll and brought to town.

But for those keeping the score at home, you’ll know why imprisoning a spirit in a doll is a bad idea.

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#feldgeister #windsbraut #german folklore #bilwis #getreidemann