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In this episode of the historical makeover series, I explore and reconstruct 16th century Irish women's dress. This unique form of historical dress includes the distinct bag-pipe sleeve léine, the wool over-kirtle gúna, a tablet-woven belt called crios, and some other various accessories.

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Further Reading:

Dunlevy, M. 1989. Dress in Ireland. London: Batsford Books.
archive.org/details/dressinireland0000dunl
englandcast.com/2024/03/the-paintings-and-life-of-lucas-de-heere
cearashionnach.wordpress.com/2011-2/research-project-16th-century-irish-attire
fitzpatrickclan.org/Traditional%20Irish%20Clothing.html
matsukazesewing.blogspot.com/2017/06/whose-sleives-hang-trailing-down-almost.html
moghroith.blogspot.com/2013/01/making-16th-century-leine-kerns-jacket.html?m=1
reconstructinghistory.com/blogs/irish/an-leine-crioch-the-irish-leine-in-the-16th-century
englandcast.com/2024/03/the-paintings-and-life-of-lucas-de-heere
geocities.ws/ladymairghread/clothwidth.htm
https://www.academia.edu/80939242/Warp_Weighted_Looms_Then_and_Now_Anglo_Saxon_and_Viking_Archaeological_Evidence_and_Modern_Practitioners
https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100081.html
english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/haphazard/extra/63-144-57-2/notes.html

Images:

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Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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