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If you have come looking for information on medieval Korea, be sure to visit my website where things are hopefully grouped together coherently.

http://www.medieval-baltic.us/korea.html
http://www.medieval-baltic.us/kortea.html is about the history of tea culture and ceremonies.
http://www.medieval-baltic.us/korot.html for information about mid-Joseon period womens' dress.

If you're looking for information about medieval sign lexicons, and language, see:
http://medieval-baltic.us/msl.html

I've been sitting in on Facebook groups for Viking Age dress, (but I've been noticing it on other lists for a while too) and I'm fascinated by the idea, that the moment you add a narrow panel to the front of your apron dress, you're wearing a ceremonial garment.

I'm seriously questioning the belief that every Viking Age image found in a Norse context depicts a woman wearing the 'usual' outfit of apron dress, often with extra lines that are interpreted as front and back panels. And that's before you start questioning the archaeological evidence for such a front panel. Or asking about the rationale that originated the panel...

Sorry... this bothers me.

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I am spending most of my time at the moment in places with no mobile phone reception, let alone internet access. I know I am missing large chunks of people's postings on Livejournal and Dreamwith (not apologising for Facebook, I'm never on top of that), so if there is anything people desperately want me to read, let me know in the comments!

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I survived the Tasmanian Fungi Festival, and photographing some lichen in the snow!




(It's very difficult to photograph ice, I am quickly learning. I took a class on macro photography and the instructor was kind enough to help me out with my 4th hand, lacking-in-English-instruction-manual camera from Japan.) Met lots of lovely people in my backpacker's hostel, met interesting people at the fungal conservation and management symposium (and discovered it's a very small world), and now have a slightly better idea of what mushrooms and toadstools I am likely to run into in the field.

And I saw snow! Snoooooow!!
(If people want to see more photos, let me know, but they're either very Touristy, or close-ups of plants in the snow.)

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I followed a banner ad, and found this: http://www.reenactorsrepertoire.com/index.php

Looks interesting?

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Digitised and freely available online (along with notes detailing what he annotated, and where!)
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/darwinlibrary

(And for the history geeks who prefer their history pre-Darwin, check out these beauties! http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/year/1450-1699 )

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This isn't my period of interest at all, so I'm not sure what to make of it, but doesn't it look like a Renn-Faire-esque low-cut wench bodice?

Tomb of Dame Mary Evre, 1612

Full-length photos:
http://www.davidkennardphotography.com/photos/164-Tomb-of-Dame-Mary-Evre.xhtml
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettsy1970/4124692773/

Close-up:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/141246914/

Found while browsing the effigy sculptures at http://plainattyre.blogspot.com.au/

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They've redesigned their site, so I can't find what I was looking for, but I did find their collection of free-to-download PDF booklets!
http://latinst.lv/brosuras-un-bukleti/

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This is not how you do it.

Let's start with part 1 of the Norwegian clothing guide, because I have a personal interest in it.

Page 1
Norwegian Viking Clothing
http://ydalir-laget.pl/norwegia.html & plus [sic] additional photos added in by Jenny Baker
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The majority of this stuff is copied off the internet, it's not like it would be difficult to note down the URL as you go. Or even look up sentences in google if you lost your bookmark. This sort of laziness passed off as research really pisses me off.

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The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, online with transcriptions into Hangul and Chinese (a href="http://sillok.history.go.kr/viewer/viewtype1.jsp?id=kda_13110005_001">here's an example from the 15th century</a>.

The Portrait of Madam Hayeon (1376~1453) can be seen and . This is a more modern re-drawing, seems to be originally from the Culture Content site.

Traditional Korean Furniture
Korean Traditional Costume and Culture, where I found...
Three images from 1420? here and here, and here.

I *think* this is a mural of a Goryeo dynasty queen in Chinese-influenced dress.

Old artwork, and modern depictions of a man and women.

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