Educational Videos
Watch selected introductions to Landsknecht mercenaries, sixteenth-century armies and culture, and the distinctive dress represented in period art.
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Landsknecht Media
Educational videos, historical presentations, practical making guides, music recordings, song texts, English translations, and source notes concerning the Landsknechte and sixteenth-century German military culture.
Use the educational collection for accessible introductions to Landsknecht history, armies, clothing, and culture. The making guides place modern reconstruction beside the period imagery that informs it. Use the music collection to compare modern performances with dated song texts and documented sixteenth-century sources.
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Video and music guides
Each collection has its own descriptive page, direct links, and historical context so modern interpretation is not confused with primary evidence.
Music & Songs
Listen to Landsknecht songs and examine dates, German lyrics, English readings, performance cautions, and direct period song records.
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Making guides
These modern guides combine historical images and object research with practical experiments. Their patterns and material choices are interpretation rather than direct evidence for a single period method.
Holtzlattentashen (slat bags)
Robyn Spencer · RowanTree Workshop · 17 August 2026
A source-informed guide comparing five slat-bag forms shown in late-medieval and sixteenth-century German and Italian sources, with practical layouts for linen, leather, wooden slats, and hemp cord. Its typology and patterns are the maker's modern synthesis rather than direct evidence for a single historical construction.
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