housebook dress – House Snark

Babenberger Stammbaum Houppelande

I am a bit obsessed with the Babenberger Stammbaum, so this record will turn up more than once in my research and experimental archaeology. The Babenbergs were the first ruling house of Austria, reigning from 976 to 1246 AD. The family tree, the Stammbaum, was painted more than 200 years later, 1489-1492 by Hans Part,ContinueContinue reading “Babenberger Stammbaum Houppelande”

Quest for the Housebook Dress

As a German re-enactor, I have been fascinated by the housebook/Dürer dress for years (also called the stehfaltenkleid in Germany). It’s such an odd evolutionary branch of women’s clothing. Dresses went from Swabian dress and, during the same time frame, the houppelande, to the brief, transitional housebook dress, and then morphed into the more structured,ContinueContinue reading “Quest for the Housebook Dress”