Sarah de Vries ([email protected]) wrote: : Hi everyone, : I'm trying to make a cotehardie. The good news, it should look nice when : it's done, the bad news, it has a more complicated pattern then my : bliaut which I just got right. Anyone have any ideas where to find a : good pattern? I am a stickler for authenticity as well, by the way. For authenticity-sticklers such as yourself (yea!!!!) the closest thing we seem to have to a cotehardie in surviving garments are the multiple-gore/gusset style of cut seen in some of the Herjolfsness dresses. They don't have the "ultra-fitted" look that most people go for in a cotehardie, but are the closest thing to it that we have solid cutting information for. If you can, get your hands on Poul Norlund's original report on the finds ("Buried Norsemen at Herjolfsness" in the series "Meddelelser om Gronland", National Museum of Copenhagen, 1924). The Museum of London clothing book has a diagram of one of the dresses, although it is mildly altered from Norlund's drawings and would produce a somewhat more fitted garment than the original seems to have been. Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn