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Photos of 16th-17th century Irish clothing
Extant garments in the National Museum of Ireland
Notes: The garments in this post are all bog finds which means their current color may not be their original color. Although some of these items were found with human remains, no photos of human remains are included in this post.
Killery Cóta Mór (great coat) and brogues:
photos by hayling billy used under non-commercial, share alike license
The Killery outfit comes from an adult male bog body found in Killerry parish, Co. Sligo in 1824. It includes a cóta mór, triús, a brat, and shoes which are on display in the museum, and a sheepskin biorraid (conical hat) which fell apart shortly after it was found (Briggs and Turner 1986).
Killery triús (trews):
photo by hayling billy
Killery outfit with and without brat:
The outfit is generally dated to the 17th c. (Dunlevy 1989). It matches Luke Gernon's 1620 description of Irish men's winter apparel:
"in winter he weares a frise cote. The trowse is along stocke of frise, close to his thighes, and drawne on almost to his waste, but very scant, and the pryde of it is, to weare it so in suspence, that the beholder may still suspecte it to be falling from his arse. It is cutt with a pouche before, which is drawne together with a string."
Additional photos of the outfit: cóta front, hem, buttons, and brat.
Shinrone gown:
photo by hayling billy
The Shinrone gown was found in a bog in 1843 in Co. Tipperary near Shinrone, Co. Offaly. Unlike the Killery outfit, there were no human remains or other items found with it (Briggs and Turner 1986). The ends of the sleeves and possibly also the bottom of the skirt are missing. The sleeves would have had wrist cuffs or ties that allowed them to be fastened around the wearer's wrists. It probably also had loops or rings along the U-shaped center-front opening for lacing. It is typically dated late 16th-early 17th c, based on its similarity to a circa 1575 illustration by Lucas DeHeere and to the dresses described by Luke Gernon in 1620 (Dunlevy 1989, McGann 2000). It could be older however, because Laurent Vital described dresses with this type of sleeve in 1518.
Copyrighted, better quality photos: left front, right front, back Additional details: side-front, front waistline
Tipperary Cóta Mór:
photos from Dunlevy 1989 and hayling billy
Another Cóta Mór. This one is from Co. Tipperary, exact find spot and date unknown. Like the Shinrone gown, it was not found with human remains or other items (Ó Floinn 1995). It is probably also from the 17th century (Dunlevy 1989).
Additional photos: front, side, front buttons, front detail, side
Brat and hats:
photo by hayling billy
I haven't been able to find any clear photos of the label on this display, but based on the excellent condition and the presence of the leather tie, I think this is the Meenybradden woman's brat.
Closeup of the tie:
The Meenybradden woman is a bog body found in Meenybradden bog, Co. Donegal in 1978. The brat was wrapped around her as a shroud and secured with the leather tie (Delaney and Ó Floinn 1995). No other garments or artifacts were found with her, although she may have been wearing a linen garment such as a léine when she was buried. Linen tends to not survive in bogs. The Meenybradden woman has a calibrated radiocarbon date of AD 1130-1310, but some archaeologist have suggested humic contamination from the peat may be throwing off the dating. Her brat is identical in cut to others from the 16th-17th centuries (Delaney and Ó Floinn 1995).
Meenybradden brat laid flat. (photo from Delaney and Ó Floinn 1995)
Wool hats:
Hats from Boolabaun, Co. Tipperary made of wool felt which has been cut and sewn to form the shape. They have togs of unspun wool worked into them giving them the appearance of faux fur. Dunlevy suggests a 15th-16th c date for them (Dunlevy 1989, McClintock 1943).
Wool cloak:
photo by hayling billy
The museum label says it's from Glenmalin bog, Malinmore, Co. Donegal, but I think this may be a mistake. According to Ó Floinn (1995), the artifact with accession number 1946:416 from Malinmore, Co. Donegal is a bale of linen. Ó Floinn's table also gives accession number 1946:416* for a group of clothing from Owenduff, Co. Mayo which includes a gown, a jacket, and a cloak. If the cloak in the photo is actually the one from Owenduff, it is probably from the 17th c (Dunlevy 1989). Alternatively, someone might have misidentified a wool cloak as a bale of linen. The museum label dates this as late Medieval to post-Medieval.
*Either Ó Floinn made a typo or this is a mistake in the museum records. Museums are not supposed to give the same accession number to 2 different artifacts. In the NMI's defense, 1946 was probably a messy year for everyone.
Bibliography:
Briggs, C. S. and Turner, R. C. (1986). Appendix: a gazetteer of bog burials from Britain and Ireland. In I. Stead, J. B. Bourke and D. Brothwell (eds) Lindow Man: the Body in the Bog (p. 181–95). British Museum Publications Ltd.
Delaney, M. and Ó Floinn, R. (1995). A Bog Body from Meenybradden Bog, County Donegal, Ireland. In R. C. Turner and R. G. Scaife (eds) Bog Bodies: New Discoveries and New Perspectives (p. 123–32). British Museum Press.
Dunlevy, Mairead (1989). Dress in Ireland. B. T. Batsford LTD, London.
Gernon, Luke (1620). A Discourse of Ireland. https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E620001/
McClintock, H. F. (1943). Old Irish and Highland Dress. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk.
McGann, K. (2000). What the Irish Wore/The Shinrone Gown — An Irish Dress from the Elizabethan Age. Reconstructing History. http://web.archive.org/web/20080217032749/http:/www.reconstructinghistory.com/irish/shinrone.html
O’Floinn, R. (1995). Recent research into Irish bog bodies. In R. C. Turner and R. G. Scaife (eds) Bog Bodies: New Discoveries and New Perspectives (p. 137–45). British Museum Press.
Vital, Laurent (1518). Archduke Ferdinand's visit to Kinsale in Ireland, an extract from Le Premier Voyage de Charles-Quint en Espagne, de 1517 à 1518. translated by Dorothy Convery and edited by me. https://irish-dress-history.tumblr.com/post/721163132699131904/laurent-vitals-1518-description-of-ireland
#16th century#17th century#irish dress#dress history#gaelic ireland#historical men's fashion#historical women's fashion#bog finds#irish history#historical dress#brog#bratanna#irish mantle#headwear#triús#cóta mór
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he's in my home he's in my Heart
#translation: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#hello hello hello hellOOOOOOOOO#hes so cute!!!! and the material is So Soft!!!#the urge to fling him as hard as i can at a wall is There!#i wont though. i wouldnt dare#but ohhhh its him <3 the chew toy <3<3 in the. uh. fabric#i didnt expect him to be so firmly stuffed its a Delightful surprise#his little outfit his stupid fuckin cinnamon bun hair AGH i love him#thirty bucks well spent!!!#i cant wait to crochet him a little sweater <3#and a little Home to keep him company <3#oh man oh man Where am i gonna put him...#in the basket??? on my bed?? on a shelf - no! i dont have the room!#maybe he'll bounce around from spot to spot!#photos from the bog#welcome home#gotta say i really do love how it kinda looks like his ascot is strangling him#i looked to see if i could loosen it lmao is he breathing alright!!!!#cant wait to have extensive staring contests with him <3#finally... someone who wont look away or find eye contact Uncomfortable...#i will admit im already obsessed with holding his tiny soft hand#AGH he's so <3<3<3 he's soooooo <3<3<3<3#thank you makeship for the opportunity to have him physically in my life#thank you clown for creating him & letting makeship turn him into a marketable plushie he's Everything. 100000/10 absolutely phenomenal#MAN i cant believe he's here!!!!#it feels kinda unreal! like! Wally Darling! in my house! My House!! holy shit!!!#hearts on his soles and everything!#oh and as a bonus he arrived in a wonderful little canvas Bag#i do love me a bag... extra thank you to makeship for the bag. new bag <3 i'll put things in it <3
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But the winds will still blow when I am no longer here. The storms will still rage, and the forces of Empire and oppression, be they Roman or otherwise, will still be waiting at the corners of the ocean. The fight goes on for the Heroes of the Future.
Third day of Doomsday! ☠️
#httyd books#how to train your dragon books#how to speak dragonese#i looked up the sail designs for the different tribes but i couldn't find the hooligan sails only the bog-burglars 😭#the bog burglars are the horizontal stripes and i just gave the hooligans vertical stripes#and i matched their sail colors to the colors of their heirs' shirts! :DD#doomsday 2023#twelve days of doomsday#hiccup horrendous haddock iii#camicazi#fishlegs no name#my art
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✨preferences should not be standards for writing advice✨
#whenever i see writing advice i just get annoyed#honestly one of my biggest gripes about writing communities in general is this#constant need to regurgitate certain pieces of writing advice like they’re ambrosia of the gods#my biggest writing advice is to just stop fucking listening to all writing advice that has to do with#prose and style#just stop doing it#read books and find things you like and craft your own style of things#i know this is not simple for everyone but i’m tired of constantly seeing#i think flowery prose bogs things down too much#and i think that direct prose isn’t good enough at putting people in the world#like mate—everyone has preferences and preferences do not make good advice#so like#i wish people would stop acting like their opinion is the next best piece of writing advice#it doesn’t help anyone it just causes fucking insecurities#i am also having sensory overload so perhaps ren doth bitch too much#but you can pry flowery prose and run on sentences and incomprehensible blocks of text from my cold dead hands#bc it makes me happy to write like this and fuck off#ren hot cakes#i’ll delete this later im just cold and annoyed#and unfortunately you can thank my mother bc im extremely passive aggressive
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he better not be throwing that old man around
#renkaza#akaren#rengoku kyojuro#akaza#TO BE CLEAR THIS IS AN OLDER KYOJURO IN THE PIC NOT SHINJURO#the missing eye should give it away but i am leaving this in the tags just in case#i imagine akaza would start wearing more clothes after he regains his memories but only when he wants to. which isnt often#something about how wearing clothes makes him feel more human which he finds both comforting and deeply unnerving#he prob only has like 1 or 2 kimonos of his own but he mostly just steal kyo's#kyo secretly gets more cause he thinks akaza is just wearing the ones he likes. he sees akaza wearing one and is like#“hey...u can keep that one if u want? i have plenty :) ”#and akaza is like “NO i want THIS one cause it hasn't been washed yet and it smells like you”#kyo is like “wow that is gross :D why do i like it.”#kny post-canon#kny#rengokuposting#bog's art
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Eternally grateful that Cressida Cowell didn’t involve a romantic subplot in the How To Train Your Dragon series.
#no time for romance just adventures at break neck speed#(but seriously. because there are some romantic threads—Fishlegs has a crush here or there#camicazi is implied to have a thing for hiccup. maybe.#and a sprinkling with HH the hero#but nearly all of the story is focused on the adventures and the near misses and the friendship#hiccup doesn’t have or ever try to find a romantic partner. he has his friends and they’re all he needs to be happy.#and I really love that.#a part of the reason I think why it feels so timeless is because this is almost set at a time in a kid’s life#before crushes. before everything gets bogged down by expectations of love and you just get to be#I can go back to that moment through these books#it’s precious to me)#httyd books#my post
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“The real game will begin momentarily… Stay tuned :)”
Costas Mandylor as The Warden in Death Count(2022)
#gifset#robo gifs#< that’s a new one! never thought i’d be posting gifs on here but i couldn’t find any of this character#so i made my own :]#the warden#death count#there’s no way there’s an actual tag for this movie so i’ll tag the actor i guess ??#costas mandylor#this movie was. strange and not very good but i REALLY enjoyed this character#he’s such a freak i loved how sadistic and yet kind of childish he was like the way he’d smile giddily as he tortured people#as for the movie as a whole it felt very very confused about what point it was even trying to make#liked the concept of a killer game show host having an audience control the fates of the contestants#but the plot itself kind of bogged it down and it was too heavy handed about social media being bad while not making an actual point about i#didn’t mean to turn this into a film review oops
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still thinking about how puss and kitty dancing on the bottom of each other's feet in midair was just a funny joke mid dance fight, and they could only do while falling. and now eleven years later, it is officially a technique they can use to literally fly upwards, defying gravity
#softboots#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#kitty softpaws#fresh from the bog#i cannot find any better gifs than this...#i should really look into gifmaking#gif
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i was like "huh it's weird that i never wrote lawlu hanahaki" but like, i did actually???? it was even taisho era esque bc of this one merch line fr like 2020
where i tried to identify the flower on law and luffy's card, decided on a peony, and wrote like, 3600 words for it before i started dreading having to rewrite canon scenes in the setting i dug myself into
Law levels him a steady glare. It doesn't create the response he wants from Luffy, and Law sighs. "Listen, I don't understand why you of all people won't fix that on your own, it's so unlike you. But, I do know that based on what I've just seen, it's gotten to the point where you might have a few months left. Seems like you've had it for a few months, that's troubling Strawhat-ya. You've got full blooms, but they're still only buds and singular. Not a lot of blood loss either..." He lists off a checklist only he is privy to.
Luffy smiles and nods, not knowing what else to do. He doesn't want to be doing this; talking about his problems with the man who caused them, and Law won't let him leave — the Heart Clinic, this conversation, Luffy doesn't know what he wants more.
"I'm willing to perform the surgery for you, if you need it."
His smile cracks at the comedy of it. He definitely doesn't want that.
it was chefs kiss, good tasty conflict, i should finish it one day
#bogs' muttering#lawlu#i went insane ab this thing i even went onto japanese google to find a building i could imagine as law's clinic#i should have the tab still up somewhere lol#pretty sure i dated the fic to be like 51 tho bc i wanted them listening to public radio broadcasts together
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Drawn after the Quick
(ie Drawn from Life)
Colored woodcut print by an unknown English artist, generally dated to 1540-1550, possibly depicting Irish kerns who fought for King Henry VIII at the siege of Boulogne in 1544.
All 6 of the men wear a léine (linen tunic) with an ionar (short jacket) over it, and the 4 on the left have a brat (wool mantle). The men have their léinte rucked up to knee length and secured at the waist with a belt or cord. The léinte have the wide hanging sleeves that are typical of 16th c. Gaelic fashion. They also have a deep center-front opening, a feature which matches Burgundian courtier Laurent Vital's description of clothing he saw during his 1518 visit to Kinsale, Co. Cork:
"Generally the men, women, and young girls wear their shirts open to the waist. Most young women and girls have their chests naked to the waist." (translation taken from a lecture by Katherine Bond)
The ionair in this print are very similar in cut to the ionar of the Kilcommon bog outfit. The hat worn by the man in the red ionar is also similar to the hat of the Kilcommon outfit.
The floral scroll design seen on some of the ionair was a popular embroidery motif in England during the 16th-early 17th centuries. It also shows up in 16th c. Irish art like St. Brigid's shoe shrine.
4 of the ionair and all of the visible scabbards have fringe on them. Fringe was a popular embellishment in 16th c. Ireland. The use of fringe is mentioned in several 16th and early 17th c. descriptions of Irish clothing. Fringes made of wool and fringes made of silk were imported into Ireland during the 16th c.
In spite the claim that it was drawn from life, this print includes some stylistic exaggeration. The sword blades are depicted as having a bulbous tip, which actual Irish ring-pommel swords are not. Compare the swords in the print to this extant 16th c. sword from Tully Lough, Co. Roscommon in the NMI:
The print is currently in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum. https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/737327
Bibliography:
Arnold, Janet, Tiramani, J., & Levey, S. (2008). Patterns of Fashion 4. Macmillan, London.
Dunlevy, Mairead (1989). Dress in Ireland. B. T. Batsford LTD, London.
Flavin, Susan (2011). Consumption and Material Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland. PhD thesis.
McClintock, H. F. (1943). Old Irish and Highland Dress. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk.
Irish Ring Pommel Sword: New Insight into Use
National Museum of Ireland talk on St. Brigid's shoe shrine
Depicting and Describing Dress in Early Modern Ireland: lecture by Dr. Katherine Bond
#irish dress#gaelic ireland#irish history#irish mantle#bratanna#leine#ionar#fringe#embellishment#historical men's fashion#headwear#art#16th century#anecdotes and observations#dress history#bog finds#extant garments
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#my psych who prescribes my psych meds is a resident and is moving on in a couple of months#i don't even remember the names of them all at this point#this happens over and over and I cannot find a clinic that will put me with someone who intends to stay#thst will also prescribe my adhd meds#and my anxiety meds#and the real kicker is that twice now they have LIED about it and said they would#only to reveal after all the hoop-jumping that oops sorry they didn't really mean it#so it's a risk i have to take any time i leave#and rhen there's the issue of new people almost always wanting to DO something#but instead of talking to me about it they just decide that my meds need overhauling and pressure me to go off shit that works#but that they morally object to i guess#and my psych for some stupid reason has decided she wants bloodwork for my cholesterol and blood sugar stuff and im just like#what hell does THIS presage because if she harasses me about the results or tries to put me on drugs for that#I'll give her a nasty scrap about it#im not interested in those meds at all#and im certainly not messing with my diet since food is the only pleasure i get most days and even that is marginal at best#and removing that would just make me worse#but medpros for the most part really don't give a fuck about that#and so now im afraid - because i do not and cannot trust them - that if i disapprove of the meds they will retaliate somehow#which good luck proving that when management and oversight often don't even care if they course of treatment will HARM you#if it relates to being fat or having bad numbers#they just gotta pathologize!#so yeah im sick of everything and just kind of want to bury myself in a bog forever#i shouldn't have to deal with this
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after failing miserably the first go around, (crochet) Home's walls are complete! we're less than halfway there but hey! The Walls!
#wally. doesnt quite fit... but thats okay!#not all homes are meant to be entered i think#ok that top photo is. At An Angle.#ALL OF THE WALLS ARE SYMMETRICAL I SWEAR!!#i kept careful track as you can see on that sticky note!#counted the normal rows AND the blo rows!#FUCK I FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE ~freshly blocked~ FLOOR#photos from the bog#ok i got the walls (majority of it anyway) and the floor done#whats left is the wall Triangles + roof + detail#OH! and i need to get some felt#just a lil somethn to glue to the interior to make sure it remains Sturdy#this will be a box after all! fully functional and Delightful to have on my shelf!#what will i put in this small home. fuck if i know but we'll find out eventually!#maybe she'll hold my chapstick collection...#OH! OR MY STICKERS! the ones that dont have a Surface yet!#oh thats perfect :]c home can keep my unused stickers safe for me :]c
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oh yeah right art
Well they sure are kids
Here's Sunstone (Sun or Sunny), Aster, Fyre, and Ky
New iteration? What's that? Hahahahahahhahahaha ☺️
#No I'm throwing them into Amphibia#deal with it#Also damn#That quality#Cries in no wifi on my computer so I had to take a picture of it#I keep pressing j instead of i#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#rottmnt fanart#rise of the tmnt fanart#my art#tmnt iteration#Calling it into the bog#maybe#Might find something better#rottmnt leo#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt raph#rottmnt mikey
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Kataang is cute zutara is hot zukaang is god tier and ship wars are dumb
#kataang#zutara#Multishipping is superior to acting like one is abusive and evil#atla#zukaang#all 3 have things i find appealing#kataang wholesome im here for women takes care of man tbh i#don't see the problem its fictional#zutara im a sucker for the pirate scene sue me#zukaang is wholesome if aang was 14 it be more popular#i also dig jetko x a#and azulaang#im to old to care about ships being perfectly healthy#ive been deep in shipping bogs and think man we all need to chill
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I have to say, I don't fully understand the ship since I haven't finished DM yet, but you certainly make it look appealing at the very least. Thank you for sharing your passions, and please continue to do so!
🥲 THANK YOU... I'll continue to publicly mutter to myself about larcille...!!!!
#this is enough...i dont need u guys to ship it...if u can enjoy my twisted cyclo path ramblings thats all i need#u may find urself finishing dm and still having no idea what im going on about#i must say canonicity or coherency do not factor into shipping to me. looking good together is enough LOl#HOWEVER!!!! i DO BELIEVE LARCILLE HAS PLENTY OF MOMENTS!!!!#but (im restrained before i can go on abt how whenever theres 1 popular ship the chatacters in the ships other relationships#get bogged down by the fandom so as to not step on the ships toes)
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