Spring Sewing
I’ve been sewing as part of a Big Barter lately. (And a little bit for me, as I stop quite so much faffing around in tertiary personas – trying to stick with 6thC and Bronze Age lately.) But it’s been … Continue reading Spring Sewing
Tag: garb
Historic clothing and jewelry that I wear or want to wear
Bronze Bog dresses, skirt 2.0
While making the first version of my Borum Eshoj dress, I knew I wasn't cutting the skirt as accurately to the drawing as I could have been. I admit I was thinking first about my mundane notions of vanity – which normally I really try not to do, because I think a big part of my historical recreation is setting my modern self aside. The modern self that is proud of my long thick shiny hair, my fit figure…cover your hair and put on the poofy full skirt, Greet, and see how it goes. It's just an experimental game. So, … Continue reading Bronze Bog dresses, skirt 2.0
Bronze Bog dresses, version 1.0
or more properly, Dress after the Borum Eshoj Woman. CA CONTEXT At GW, Gwen and Glenna both wore versions of what they called the Bronze Age bog dress (though Glenna's was more of a 'bog bikini'…she's very cute), and since it looked wonderfully comfortable and easy to wear in warm weather, I decided I wanted one. Or three. Here's what they looked like…Gwen's is normal skirt length. (Gwen's image removed by request; sorry for confusion.) Carl Kohler's book, of which I have the 1924 translation in Dover edition, shows a partial image of this drawing… I decided I liked the … Continue reading Bronze Bog dresses, version 1.0
North Indian Hindu – Project Runway style
My apprentice brother Khalil asked me, the Thursday before Crown List, if I could possibly walk as part of his entourage and wear a sari. I've had an interest in Indian, because I wanted to support my 10+ year yoga practice with clothes and more culture knowledge, but felt I needed lots of gaps filled. For example, I studied Middle Eastern garden design in college, but how those philosophies bridge to what little of the mythology I know and then to clothing…I have a lot more reading to do before I feel I can represent Indian in any way, shape … Continue reading North Indian Hindu – Project Runway style
Jenny Dean’s Anglo-Saxon Dye Experiments
Part 3 – Blues, Greens, Purple, Brown and Black Part 2 – Reds, Yellows, and Browns Part 1 – Introduction Continue reading Jenny Dean’s Anglo-Saxon Dye Experiments
Nalbinding
My mother is gravitating towards SCAdian participation. She mostly wants to tag along after me, having no time to do her own research. So we're plunging into the Dark together. (I have promised that I will garb her.) Since she's a knitter, I suggested that she also check out nalbinding. Nalbinding is cool because: It's earlier than knitting. Knitted structures seem to follow the historical ability to make knitting needles – dowels or rods consistent in size. See Richard Rutt's History on Knitting for a dedicated amateur's Brit-centric introduction. It's unusual. I do know several people who can do it, … Continue reading Nalbinding
Refocusing persona development – 6thc Kent
I haven't really done any persona development since getting my name (15thc Flemish, Margareta Gijsberts, called Greet, which is a 15thc pet name). The last two years, my first two years, I've been following advice to play around…try things…and I've gotten sucked into Major Funness that required Themed Clothes. But now I think it's time to settle down and focus on one placetime for a while, and that's going to be 6thc Kent. Southeastern England, influenced by the Anglo-Saxon, the Jutes, and some highborn Frankish marriages, after the pullout of the Romans, but before the Holy Roman Empire swells back … Continue reading Refocusing persona development – 6thc Kent
Norse clothing used “blue-green”, Early English red, Irish pink/purple
I'm still madly preparing for Gulf Wars, but in the midst, this snippet from the 12thCgarb list on appropriate colors for various northern placetimes is really interesting! Emphasis mine: But that is not what Rogers found and the fact that it is what makes it interesting. Looking at her graph, she found nearly 75% of her samples from the Norse textiles (found in Norway and Denmark) to have been dyed with woad, compared with only 20% in England and less than 5% in Ireland. This chemical evidence seems to confirm what can be inferred from both the literature (not only … Continue reading Norse clothing used “blue-green”, Early English red, Irish pink/purple
Sidelacing documentation for 12thc woman’s garment
From 12thCgarb: Greetings from Nadezhda Toranova, I was looking at the pictures posted by Katherine, and noticed in one of them, when I zoomed in closely and looked at the two women on the bottom… http://pics.livejournal.com/jillwheezul/pic/000sezrh/g34 Is that side lacing (or holes for side lacing) that I'm seeing? Her dress is colourless, but the red ink picks out a series of holes on either side of what looks like a slit. It seems like such a strange detail for the artist to depict, when the dresses are otherwise completely plain. Continue reading Sidelacing documentation for 12thc woman’s garment
Garb kudos at feast idea
From A&S50Challenge: We didn't have an actual meeting of the A&S 50 challengers at Lupercalia (held February 21 in Nicollet, Minnesota), but A&S Maven Kat did something that I thought was a great (and adaptable) idea for a smallish event. As the day progressed, she went around and tagged people with a bit of ribbon with "A&S" on the front, and a number on the back. As she pinned on the ribbon, she commented on a particularly interesting or authentic bit of the recipient's garb, and asked that they briefly describe that item for the folks during feast. Not everyone … Continue reading Garb kudos at feast idea