Now that Halloween is around the corner (gosh, time flies!), it is time to talk about the next dollhouse style: a Gothic dollhouse.
I'm not sure if all falls under the same theme, together with 'Halloween', just 'spooky', or if it is considered something completely different. So let's figure that out together.
Before, I have talked about lots of other dollhouse styles, about 5 by now, so please just use the "search" button on my website for more. Like for example the Cabinet dollhouses or the Victorian style, but there is so much more to discover ;-).
Updated 02.08.23
What are Gothic dollhouses and what is this Style?
To be honest: I had no clue what to write about this topic, as I didn't even know where it derived from. But after looking it up, I hope that I can tell you a few things.
The Gothic style seems to be originally developed during the time period 1140-1500, mainly for architecture and visual arts and mostly represented as such in churches. Also, it was first known as the 'French style'.
Pointed arches on windows, doors, and vaults are quite characteristic of this style.
A lot of styles that I described before are originally from the UK, but for once this one is mainly from France. At about 1140 this country started to build its first Gothic buildings, as for example the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint-Denis and the Cathedral of Sens.
Before we move on, I would like for you to check out this guy on Instagram, making a 3D Gothic cathedral. Isn't it fantastic?
The next thing very typical for Gothic-style architecture is that they strived to build as high as possible and that they wanted lots of light to naturally come into the buildings.
Hence, the windows became bigger, wider, and higher than in the previous Romanesque architectural style.
If you would have visited the 'Notre-Dame de Paris', you would notice the most important signs of the Gothic style, meaning:
- pointed arches
- stained glass windows
- dreariness
- pointed, elongated shapes
- mythical monsters scaring people passing by 🙂
- ribbed vaults
Sadly, Notre Dame got burned down on the 15th of April 2019.
Check out these small haunted houses here.
The Gothic Style Is Also Showing In The Fashion.
All the elements of this previous list were also shown in the style of people's clothes.
Gothic clothes in the Middle Ages.
Here are some characteristics of Gothic clothes during the Middle Ages (so you can base your Gothic dolls' clothes on this perhaps?):
- made from velvet
- pointed high hats for gentlemen
- long shoes with pointy noses, sometimes even as long as half a meter! (ridiculous or not?)
- stiff neck collars
- sharp cuffs
- large sleeves from well dressed coats and kaftans
At first, these Gothic clothes were not black, but on the contrary, they had very lively colors during the beginning of the period! The most used colors were: blue, lilac, green, and burgundy.
Have an actual look at this video, where you can see how the Gothic clothing style has developed during the time (in under 4 minutes!) :
Modern Gothic clothes.
In the previous century, from the 1970s to the 1980s, people started wearing Gothic-style clothing on the streets.
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