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Edited by: Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth & Maria Hayward
The Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450 is a unique work that brings together hundreds of articles offering the latest research from across the range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of medieval dress and textiles.
The online version was updated in 2016, 2018 and 2021.
Subscriptions: See Brill.com
Edited by: Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth & Maria Hayward
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The Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450 is a unique work that brings together hundreds of articles offering the latest research from across the range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of medieval dress and textiles.
The online version was updated in 2016, 2018 and 2021.
Subscriptions: See Brill.com
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- Update 2021
- Assize of cloth
- Candlewick
- Clothier
- Cordage
- Cornwall: Cloth Industry and Trade
- Coventry
- Credit
- Devon and Exeter: Cloth Industry and Trade
- Fell
- Fleece
- Flemings
- Flocks
- Royal Records as a Source for Textile and Clothing History
- Science and Technology
- Staple
- Thread
- Thrums
- Tow
- Warp
- Web
- Weft
- Woof
- Woolfell
- Yarn
- A
- Academic dress
- Accessories
- Ælfric’s Colloquy and Glossary
- Aglet
- Ailette
- Aketon
- Alb
- Aldhelm
- Alien
- Alnage or Ulnage
- Alnagers or Ulnagers
- Altar Cloth
- Altar Cloths
- Altar Frontal
- Alum
- Amber
- Amice
- Animal Fibre
- Apparel
- Appliqué
- Archaeological Textiles
- Arming Doublet
- Armour: coat of plates
- Armour: coif and capados/helmet linings
- Armour: plate armour
- Armourers
- Armourers and Armour: textual evidence
- Aventail
- B
- Badges
- Bands
- Bast
- Baudekin
- Bayeux Tapestry
- Bayeux Tapestry: evidence of arms and armour
- Beads in early Anglo-Saxon England
- Beaver Fur
- Becket, St Thomas: life and textile relics
- Beds: ante-1100
- Beds: post-1100
- Bell
- Belt
- Bend
- Bequests
- Bezant
- Black Prince: achievements of The Black Prince at Canterbury
- Blackwell Hall, London
- Blanket
- Bleaching
- Bliaut
- Bluet (blewet)
- Body Garments: ante-1100
- Body Garments: post-1100
- Bokasin
- Bologna Cope
- Bolt
- Boniface, St
- Book of Rights (Lebor na Cert)
- Books: book markers
- Books: covers
- Books: curtains
- Books: embroidered parchment repairs
- Books: spine lining
- Boots
- Boston
- Botcher
- Bourrelet
- Bracer
- Braie/brael
- Brandea
- Bras maunche
- Brayer
- Brayette
- Breuddwyd Rhonabwy
- Brigandine
- Bristol clothmaking
- Broadcloth
- Broadcloth: history of English broadcloth
- Brocading
- Brooch: England (history, development and uses)
- Buckle
- Buckram
- Budge
- Burel
- Burl
- Burnet
- Buskins
- Butler-Bowdon Cope
- Button
- C
- Cadace
- Calabre
- Calendar
- Camaca
- Cambric
- Canterbury Cathedral
- Canterbury Tales
- Canvas
- Cappers
- Caps
- Cards and carding of wool
- Carpets and rugs
- Cat fur
- Cattle tail hair
- Caulking and sealing
- Chain mail
- Chainse
- Chalon
- Chapemakers
- Chaperon
- Charles d'Orleans 'Fortune Stabilnes'
- Chastity belts
- Chasuble
- Chaucer: career
- Chaucer: dress
- Chaucer: soft furnishings
- Chausses
- Check
- Chemise
- Chichester-Constable chasuble
- Church furniture
- Cilicium: hair cloth
- Clare Chasuble
- Cloak: ante-1100
- Cloak: post-1100
- Cloth of gold
- Cloth: dimensions and weights
- Cloth: the word
- Clothiers
- Clothworkers
- Clove
- Coat armour
- Codpiece
- Cogware
- Coif: non-military
- Collections
- Colour and weave effects (check, stripes and mottling)
- Colours of Liturgical Vestments and Hangings
- Comb
- Coney
- Conservation of archaeological textiles
- Cope
- Coral
- Cordwainers
- Cornette
- Cote
- Cotehardie
- Cotton
- Cottons (woollen textile)
- Covering
- Cowl
- Crakow
- Crannog
- Cross dressing
- Crowfoot, Elisabeth G.
- Crowfoot, Grace M.
- Crown
- Cuffia/cuffie
- Curriers
- Curtains
- Cyprus
- Cywyddau gofyn a diolch
- F
- Fashion
- Fasteners
- Feathers
- Felbrigge Psalter embroidered book cover
- Felt
- Fibre
- Finger loop braiding
- Finishing
- Fitch
- Flax
- Floor coverings
- Footwear
- Fox
- Foynes
- Fraternity
- Frieze
- Fringes and tassels
- Fripperers
- Frouncing
- Fullers
- Fuller's earth
- Fulling and Fulling Mills in the British Isles
- Funerals: ante-1100
- Funerals: post-1100
- Fur
- Fustian
- G
- Gambeson
- Gamboising
- Garter: ante-1100
- Garter: post-1100
- Gauntlet
- Gawain poet
- Gemstones
- Genette
- Gerefa
- Girdle: ante-1100
- Girdle: post-1100
- Girdlers
- Glosses and glossaries
- Glovers
- Gloves
- Goat hair
- Gold and silver metal thread
- Gold and silver wire and wire drawing
- Gore
- Gorget
- Goscelin
- Gower, John
- Gown
- Great Wardrobe
- Gris
- Guilds: London
- Guilds: provincial towns
- Guilds: Scotland, Trade and Craft Guilds
- L
- Laȝamon: The Brut
- Lambskin/sheepskin
- Lampas
- Langland, William: Piers Plowman
- Last
- Latten
- Laundry
- Lawn
- Laws and prohibitions: cloth regulations
- Laws and prohibitions: ecclesiastical
- Laws and prohibitions: sumptuary
- Leather: cuir bouilli
- Leather: garments and footwear
- Leathersellers
- Lebor na Cert
- Lebuin, St, relic of
- Leg wrap
- Leopard
- Lettice
- Liber Pontificalis
- Linen
- Linen production and trade
- Liripipe
- Liturgical textiles
- Liturgical textiles: ante-1100
- Liturgical textiles: post-1100
- Livery (uniform)
- Livery Collars
- Livery company
- Llan-Gors decorated garment
- London: archaeology
- London: trade
- London: Victoria and Albert Museum
- Looms
- Loomweights
- Luttrell Psalter
- Lydgate, John
- Lye
- Lynx
- Lyric poetry (English)
- M
- Maaseik textiles
- Mabinogion
- Manche/Maunche
- Maniple
- Mantle
- Markets and Fairs
- Marten
- Maternity and nursing garments
- Mattress
- Mediterranean Trade
- Medlee
- Mercers
- Merchant Taylors
- Military dress
- Milliners
- Miniver
- Mi-parti
- Mirror
- Misericords
- Mistery and 'Mystery Plays'
- Mitre
- Mittens
- Monastic dress
- Monks
- Monumental brasses
- Mordant
- Multilingualism
- Murrey
- P
- Padding
- Painted and stamped cloth
- Pall
- Paltok
- Pampillion
- Passementerie
- Paston Letters
- Patrons and patronage
- Paunce
- Pavilion
- Pearl poet, The
- Pearls
- Pelican
- Pendant: ante-1100
- Pendant: post-1100
- Pers
- Personal names
- Pew ends
- Pictish dress
- Piece
- Pienza Cope
- Pilgrimage
- Pillow
- Pin
- Pinners
- Pisane
- Place names
- Plate armour
- Plume
- Plunket
- Points
- Poke
- Political thought
- Poots
- Popel
- Portraits
- Pouches and Purses: ante-1100
- Pouches post-1100
- Pouchmakers
- Pourpoint
- Powdering
- Prayer mats
- Purple
- Purser
- Purses
- Purses post-1100
- S
- Sabatons
- Sable
- Sack
- Sacks
- Saddles
- Sails
- Saints
- Samite
- Sarpler
- Sarsenet
- Satin
- Say
- Scabbard
- Scarlet
- Scissors
- Sculpture: ante-1100 England, evidence for dress
- Sculpture: ante-1100 England, skeuomorphs of textile techniques
- Sculpture: ante-1100 Ireland, evidence for dress
- Sculpture: post-1100
- Seal bag
- Seals (for cloth) and merchants’ marks
- Second hand clothing
- Secular dress: Anglo-Saxon
- Secular dress: Celtic Irish
- Secular dress: Celtic Welsh
- Secular dress: Insular Viking
- Secular dress: later medieval
- Selvedge
- Sendal
- Sensuality and sexuality
- Serge
- Sewing: cutting and construction
- Shearman’s hook
- Shearmen
- Shears
- Sheet
- Ship Burial
- Shirt
- Shoes
- Shopping
- Shroud
- Shuttle
- Sign language
- Silk: cultivation of silk
- Silk: Silk in the British Isles
- Silk: Silk road
- Silkwomen
- Skinners
- Sleeve
- Slickstone
- Slipper
- Smock
- Soap
- Soft armour
- Soft furnishings and textiles: ante-1100
- Soft furnishings and textiles: post-1100
- Southampton and the later medieval textile trade
- Spindle whorl
- Spinning
- Spinning wheels
- Spinsters
- Sports
- Spurs
- Squirrel fur
- Squirrel robe of Queen Philippa
- St Bartholomew’s Fair
- St Bees Man
- St Botolph's Fair, Boston
- St Giles Fair, Winchester
- St Ives Fair
- Stained glass windows
- Stamford Fair
- Stitches: embroidered seams and line stitches
- Stitches: filling stitches and other embroidery techniques
- Stole
- Stone
- Stourbridge Fair
- Straits
- Stranling
- Stripes
- Suffolk Clothmaking
- Surcote/surcoat
- Surviving medieval textiles of the British Isles
- Syon Cope
- T
- Table linen
- Tablet weave
- Taffeta
- Tailors
- Tapestry
- Tapicers
- Tartarin
- Tax
- Tent maker/pavilioner
- Tenter
- Tenterhook
- Tents: ante-1100
- Tents: post-1100
- Textile armour
- The German Hanse in England
- The Kingis Quair
- Thong
- Tinsel
- Tippet
- Tiretaine
- Tissue
- Tod
- Tools: archaeological evidence ante-1100, England and Scotland
- Tools: archaeological evidence ante-1100, Ireland
- Tools: post-1100
- Torque
- Tournaments and jousts
- Towns and their Products
- Trade: Irish Cloth
- Trade: Mediterranean
- Trade: Textiles, Arms and Armour, England, c. 1250-1450
- Trade: Welsh Cloth
- Tucker
- Tunic
- Turnshoe
- W
- Wadmal
- Wall covering
- Wall paintings
- Walter, Hubert
- Waterford
- Weapons as items of dress
- Weavers
- Weaving (weaves)
- Weaving batten
- Weights and measures
- Welsh begging poems
- Westminster Abbey
- Wey
- Whitawyer
- Wills and inventories: ante-1100
- Wills and inventories: post-1100
- Wimple
- Winder
- Wire drawing
- Wiredrawers
- Woad
- Wood carving: Misericords
- Wood carving: Pew ends
- Wood carving: Roof bosses
- Wool
- Wool merchants
- Wool trade: England c. 1250-1330
- Wool trade: Scottish 1250-1450
- Wool: processing
- Wool: sheep
- Wool: types
- Woolbrogger
- Woolcomb
- Woollens
- Woolsack
- Worsted
- Wrappings