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 [...]
Category: 14th Century
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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