An Addendum To Plaid Cotehardies

In Which Merouda Hopes to Refine the Research of a Scholar More Worthy Than She 

First, the article I intend to further: Plaid Cotehardies of the 14th Century by Mistress Maddalena Jessamyn di Piemonte. The article features plaid, bias cut, as part of a parti-colored "cotehardie." I was personally so taken with the concept that I started looking for more examples and variations on the theme.

My favorite kind of article: visual presentation with reference.

Detail from The Knighting of St. Martin, Simone Martini, fresco dated about 1320-1330, in the Lower Church of San Francisco, Assisi. This particular image is easy to find online; the whole picture also contains two men in floor-length, loosely fitting cotes of plaid/red. I like this musician best, and I love the matching hat. Also note that the tight undersleeve is of the same plaid as the loose oversleeves. On an unrelated note, he's playing with a quill plectrum.

Detail from fragment of The Effects of Good Government, fresco by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1337-1340, in the Palazzo Publica, Sienna. It appears to be completely plaid, perhaps with a large fur hem, and of a very simple sett. I found the picture in Gothic Painting, J. Dupont & C. Gnudi, Rizzoli: New York, 1979.

More as I find them.

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This document created April 23, 2005
Last edited, 24 April 2005