Yesterday was West Kingdom Collegium, and for some reason I decided to teach a class. Actually, I know the reason, and that was that I like teaching! I asked William what he thought I should teach-- my History of Lace class seemed like a bad idea, since there isn't much interest in late 16th C [...]
Author: notanothercostumingblog
Bio Engineer turned (hopeful) textile conservator
Re-enacting on a budget
If you've even dipped your toes in, you have likely realized that reenactment can easily eat all of your money. Especially if you want all the goodies! The entire time I've been in the SCA I've been either not working or working retail part-time, so I can't drop a fortune on my kit. In part [...]
So You Want To Learn How To Make A “Cotehardie”
Honestly I'm writing this because a friend of mine was asking people for help on the Book of Faces about how men's 14th C "cotehardies"* are constructed. I was just going to send these to him, but it occurred to me that other people might want this information too..... so I am compiling it on [...]
14th Century Thread pt II
I realized I never shared this with you guys, so here is the documentation for my 14th C sewing thread! So here you go, this is the actual coherent version of the rambling on this post. thread documentation The 'blurb' for this competition recommended 1-3 pages of documentation, so I tried to keep it at [...]
New Sewer’s Garb
There's been a lot of discussion recently on the West Kingdom facebook group about garb for newcomers and how to get them the information they need. I feel like I really can't help very much with buying garb-- other than my new hood, I've never bought any garb in my life (If you want very [...]
Adventures in Catalán
Hello yes hi I vanished again! I keep doing that! I think the main problem is that I am just chugging along on a lot of things right now (no, actually, a LOT of things) and I never feel like I have anything in particular to write about. Some of that will probably be detailed [...]
Clothing Rav
Many of you will remember my friend Darrin, of the stupidly-complicated-device and lack-of-garb. (His SCA name is Rav, which leads to the convenient mnemonic of us as Rav4 and Ex-hera. Ie the Toyota Rav 4 and the Nissan Extera. Blame Laurie, but it helps) This is the garb I made him approximately a year ago. [...]
14th Century Sewing Thread
And I'm off down another rabbit hole! At Mists Investiture in May they're having an A&S competition the theme of which is, essentially "Things Made At Home." They specifically mention spun thread as an example, to which I went. Huh. That is a thing I can do! Documentation is required, which means I've been in [...]
Me Birthday!
Is coming up. I shall be 26, which is slightly scary as 25 is definitely mid-twenties and 26 is headed towards late-twenties. I know this sounds silly if you, like my mother, are 68, but I really thought I would be well onto a career by now and instead I am working retail and headed [...]
I vanished again
So the first 3 weeks of this month were crazy stressful, and then I went to Crown, and then sewing was less stressful but work was more stressful....and I didn't have pictures. But I'm alive, I swear! My goals for Crown originally were: 1. Get Spanish 1520s done 2. Get William's shirt done 3. Get [...]
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