This gown is based on this illumination from Andalius de Nigro Januensis' Tractatus de sphaera, made in 1325-1330. Ever since I saw it first I wanted to make a mi-parti gown out of matching brocades.
The manuscript is made in Southern Italy, possibly Naples, and is a treatise on astronomy. It is now in the Bibliothèque National de France, link to the manuscript here.
It took quite a while to find matching brocades in white and blue, but finally I managed to find it from puresilks.us. The fabric is a silk mix brocade in dark blue and white, the photo below is too light, teh blue is really dark.
The gown is fully lined in the thin silk below, shot in yellow and red.
As you see the pattern is the same in both fabrics. Inexplicably the direction of the fabric was different in the white and the blue, so I hade to piece the blue fabric to make it long enough.
And obviously I didn't make it long enough anyway, so I hade to add strips of plain silk at the bottom of my gown.
I made a matching tunic for Sir Måns, but I don't have any photos of that currently. Except of the buttons in his sleeves ;)
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