Just wanted to insert a notice apologizing, I am still mostly alive I swear but likely won't be posting anything until after all of my assignments are due for the semester. I'm not sewing on much and I tried to write a post on TORM and just... couldn't make it happen. My 3000 word technical [...]
Author: notanothercostumingblog
Bio Engineer turned (hopeful) textile conservator
Hip hip…vivat?
Drachenwald Crown Tourney has come and gone, actually more than a week ago? I did kind of massively overdo things that weekend and spent most of the week recovering. But! I went! I did finish my fitted gown in time, thank god, because it was chilly. Going up the spiral staircase to the dormitories in [...]
Approaching Gift Season
I always feel a little bit awkward about doing this, like "look at all these things I want! Please buy them for me!" But the reality is that while my family loves me they don't always know what to do with me.....both in terms of gifts and also social dynamics. I also love it when [...]
Year 2 Lessons
Last year I did a post that was "all of the things I learned in my first year of historical costuming!" I decided that it might be nice to make that a tradition, so here are the things I learned in my second year of historical costuming. Year Two lessons End threads well when [...]
Conservation at Home
Ok. I am going to put a header here that some of this could be controversial, even though I'm pretty sure I think everything that is put on the internet could be controversial, so this might be me being overly cautious. I don't think anyone will really be offended by this, but it is not [...]
Postgrad-ing
Hi everyone! Sorry for my absence, I was doing my course orientation activities and my first week of postgraduate courses, so I've been pretty busy. I was frustrated when I was researching this program and housing at UofG that I couldn't find any information so I'm going to talk about that a fair amount.... if [...]
Dear Glasgow,
Your grannies are a national treasure, look after them. I sort of...forgot...that people smoke cigarettes. Whoops. People walk their dogs without leashes?? And the dogs don't run off and chase a squirrel up a tree?? I don't understand but it seems like a great idea since the dogs can stop to sniff things and then [...]
