Since I first started to make 16th century clothing I have wanted to make clothes that could have been worn by the master miners in Falun. Master miners were part owners of the mine and owned their own smelting furnaces where they produced copper, they then sold it. There was a wide variety of economical rank and they can be compared to landed gentry, with some being very rich and some just scraping buy. Over all they can be compared in wealth to the burghers of the towns around the Baltic sea.
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| My impression of a master miner's daughter back in 2018 |
When David entered my life I started out with making him a coat, but then we have concentrated more on the landsknecht style, not the least because he really wanted a landsknecht outfit and I mostly do events with the landsknecht group Stockholmsfänikan.
Anyway this weekend Stockholmsfänikan and Proknekt had a party, and even if it was landsknecht themed, we decided to go as master miners, also because it's October and David didn't want to wear shorts and I felt that I for once could wear my longsleeved green gown without dying from the heat. Also for once I was not cooking so I could wear my blackwork cap and a white apron without risk of putting stains or scorch marks from the fire on them.
I have made a new best apron, that is white and with both whitework and blackwork and I wore my blackwork cap and black furline partlet. For David I had made a new pair of long hose, and instead of his usual blingy hat he got to borrow my red and more simple hat. A good reason to have accessories that you can mix up, and his headsize is the same as mine when I'm wearing a wulsthaube so that works out really well. He is also wearing the hairnet that I am wearing in the top photo from 2018, once again accessories are so good for changing up your costume.
The hose are mainly machine sewed from a quite small piece of wool. I used the pattern for the landknecht shorts but simply lengthened it. I am glad that my husband is fairly short, and still the hose legs just reaches his ankles. I will see if I can piece together the scraps that are left to make them go down a bit over the foot, even if there isn't enough fabric to make them footed hose. I have alsoe piecred the fabric up under the bum and the codpiece and flag that its attached to to make it work. They are held up by being connected to a sleevless doublet, I might add sleeves to it in the future but it is quite comfy to have just the west under the coat. It's up to him to fix a pair of proper shoes though, that isn't something I can make for him.
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