My right wrist gave an almighty crack this morning and then stopped hurting! My left still hurts but I'm right handed so we're moving back into sewing. Weirdly my wrist doesn't hurt but the muscles in my forearms are still tight so I'm going to keep heat-packing and massaging those. Despite the fact that I [...]
Category: Research
Adventures in Alcega
We're moving on to Part II of "weird shit Callie does while not sewing." For today's nonsense-- trying to make some sense of the 1589 Tailor's Pattern Manual by Alcega. This, along with Hispanic Costume, is the resource for 16th C Spanish clothing-- a surviving manual on how to lay out all variety of garments [...]
Past Notions
I've been having some hand and wrist issues since Sunday-- luckily it doesn't seem to be carpal tunnel, but I'm being good and not sewing and wearing my brace so here's a little side project I've been thinking about for a while now but has been low-priority: I'd like to have a period sewing kit [...]
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. [...]
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