Heraldic Printed Linen Dress

Baroness Letia

As Landed Baronage, Her Excellency Lochmere needed a dress to represent both her Barony and her Kingdom. This parti-colored dress includes populace symbols from both.

Magistra Letia

To fullfill her duties as a member of the Order of Defense, Letia often takes the field with her rapier and dagger. This dress facilitates both of her roles, without a costume change, by passing Rapier Armor requirements.

Free Letia

Who doesn't want to twirl about while looking this good?

Spike Stamp

Half of this dress was stamped with a Unicorned Sea Horse, A Spike - The populace symbol for Atlantia. This 3D printed spike stamp was made by Aedelwulf Wares. You can find them on Etsy and Facebook.

Crab Stamp

This half of the dress reflects the heraldry of Lochmere. Crabs are featured as a populace symbol and on the heraldry.

The overall design of this dress combines two elements of 14th Century Fashion. The first is Noble lady's showing household or political allegiances through the decoration on their dress (Gilding the Market by Susan Steward). In this case the wonderful Baroness of Lochmere is displaying her duty to the populace of Lochmere (crab) and to the Crown of Atlantia (Spike). The second element is in the printed figured fabric. Printed Linen is documented in my class on the subject. Historical linens were printed to mimic more expensive figured silks. While these silks contained animals, the silks would also have had denser overall patterns. The stark nature of this design is due to the desire to mimic the populace symbols of Atlantia and Lochmere and stamp availability.

Final Assembly Cat Not Included

This dress was patterned over the pandemic. To reduce time spent iterating, we started with an old Gothic Fitted Dress of Letia's. I transcribed it onto pattern pieces and then altered where necessary. To ensure enough room for fencing we added extra space in the arms.

Its ok Rose, you can't keep the dress but you can be internet famous.

Sleeve Detail

MoD Symbol Buttons from Billy and Charlie. Pewter buttons were used widely through Europe in the 14th Century. These add a bit of sparkle to a dress fit for a Baroness.

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