Medieval queens wore wool. I wear thrift store curtains.

Опубликовано: 12 Июль 2026
на канале: Making History
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Hello! I made a princess dress out of curtain, but I promise this video will be a very solemn and rigorous exercise in historical communication (as you've come to expect from this fine channel).

Notes, Corrections, Clarifications:
1. There is a later gown at the national museum of Hungary that is Burgundian-ish. But it really is a different sort of gown and wasn't about to offer me clues to the construction of earlier styles.

2. English broadcloths were apparently legislated to be 1.75 yards wide, but I can't find where this legislation actually comes from. Just tons of references to it.

3. 30 metres is not a standard bolt of broadcloth. More like 20. The exact numbers can be found in John Munro's works online.

4. The pattern I ended up using has a different amount of big skirt triangles...but for ridiculous piecing reasons that I didn't really want to detail. Just for the observant of you who noticed something different was going on. Its still a big cone.

SOURCES, COPYRIGHT CREDITS, FULL IMAGE LIST, PINTEREST BOARD, ETC:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12...

MUSIC:

"Midnight Magic" by Rafael Krux (orchestralis.net) CC BY 4.0

"Journey in the New World" by Twin Musicom (YT audio library) CC BY 4.0

Sonata in F Major "Golden Sonata" by Purcell. Perf. Papalin. via Musopen. CC BY 3.0

"Lively Classical Piano Waltz" by MusicLFiles, CC BY 4.0, via filmmusic.io

"Church Bell Celebration" by Doug Maxwell/Media RIght Productions (YT audio library license)


Subtitles will be up later this week. Thanks for your patience!