Posts Tagged ‘clothing’
Pooh Tunics are DONE.
Several months ago I agreed to put front & back gores in an otherwise-finished tunic for HRM Maynard. It’s something I’ve done lots of times but I had never been totally satisfied with how it came out. I can DO it, I just don’t LIKE it.
Then Tasha posted her instructions for setting a gore in [...]
I entered Caleb’s armor into Baronial A&S Championships last weekend. It’s done except for the hosen.
Read more here.
I seem to have a huge pile of projects all in the works at once right now… not that I mind, it’s just a little crazy.
I’m sending an A&S display item to Crown even though we’re not going. That will be Matatias’ brown riding tunic – I had to do some mending on it last [...]
Go here for a first draft of the hosen handout. I’d appreciate feedback on it – I’ll be using it for a class at Have Fun Storming the Castle in a couple of weeks.
Construction is done, seams are finished except for the seam/armhole finish on one side. It is not as long on her as I’d hoped (it just hits the floor right now) but it is PLENTY big around – so much so that I’m going to be pleating in the tops of the gores; I [...]
Shoshanna and I will be at Aethelmearc coronation next weekend, and we’re counting on the weather being coolish. Since her brown flannel tunic is getting too small on her and I’m not sure that the cotton smock, red linen tunic, and coat will not be enough. I had been intending to make her [...]
I have finally been pushed to get off my rear and write up a handout on braies. I’m hoping to have it done by the beginning of next week – will post when I do.
Ice Dragon is coming up, and Beau Fleuve is hosting spring coronation/Queen’s Rapier at a mostly-outdoor site in April. I refuse [...]
I’m reading Home: A Short History of an Idea for my dissertation, and it’s full of information about domestic life in the middle ages.
Rybczynski, Witold. 1986. Home: A Short History of an Idea. New York: Viking Penguin Inc.
(Amazon – Powells)
I’m reading it for information about the development of the concept of personal [...]
