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 [...]
Category: Lace
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 [...]
GWW and a unified theory of bobbin lace
I am recently returned from my first ever war in the SCA-- overall, a pretty good time! Saionji-sensei was my ride to and from the event, as my health problems prevent me from driving a car for more than about two hours without difficulty. She was repaid in Elizabethan lemon curd and conversation about old [...]
Period Lace and How to Find It
Psst: this is both a practice for me in getting my brain organized for my class in two weeks, and also to accompany said class with pictures, links, etc. Enjoy! Hello, welcome! My name is Axera Coscolano and in the mundane world I work at a lace museum and nerd out over trims a lot. [...]
Womp womp
We're at a week till I leave for Costume College.... And I've spent the last week with a fever up to 103° and a super helpful ER diagnosis of "well, we know it's not bacterial meningitis" Soooo that pink dress? Is not happening. The lace oversleeves are still not sewn on, there is no skirt, [...]
An abbreviated and sarcastic history of lace (plus identification)
Today at work we were making a new display on lace types and how to identify them and I gave my abbreviated history of lace lecture. Breanna, one of my co-workers, suggested I teach a Costume College class on this. While I am in NO WAY prepared to do that, I figured a blog post [...]
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