From another list. ... which led to this http://www.gnm.de/Sammlungen/Sammlung_Textil_H4.htm Look at the first woman's sleeve. Please note the unusual back of...
HI all. Finially photos of my beautiful dark blue gown on me with all the bits attached. http://oonagh.actewagl.net.au/Livery_Gown.htm Mio Ragazzo helped dress...
Can I get some suggestions to make a skirt? I don't want to use a commercial pattern, I'm miserable at it. but I'm not sure how to get the fullness in it,...
Hello, Newbie here. :-) I'm attending my first SCA event tomorrow evening and Saturday and the nights have turned chilly. I'm wanting to make a cloak, but...
would anyone have a few patterns they can suggest....preferably turkish style, but I can modify others if thats what you... tunics and pants wouldnt be...
Most of the earrings shown in 16th century portraits are on small, visible hoops. Does anyone have an image of either an extant hoop or an earring not in an...
I'm one of those well endowed people too, and I have found with gowns that I don't want to deal with corsets or other support garments, and the bodice is well...
Okay, I love this outfit http://free2.angeltowns.com/cliffandtab/costumepics/tabexcal.jpg but I'm thinking this is not period in the slightest... and how is...
Aelfwyn, so far as I can see, it says it's a reliquary pouch from the Cathedral City of Trier,[near the Luxembourg border these days], and is said to date from...
Hello! My name is Gina. I've just taken the plunge and joined the SCA after watching from the sidelines for years. I join with my three children ages 8(boy)...
Good Evening! I have a really easy question.. which is more versatile as far as cloak style, a semi-circle, or a rectangle (for both adults and children)? I...
Greetings to the list, My guy friend has asked me to make him a reversable doublet. I am wondering what would be the best way to close it. Buttons? Clasps?...
Could it be a representation of formal sleeves with the arms out through the slashes? As a better explanation: some of the outermost garments (not sure about...
Small update on my Livery Gown. http://oonagh.actewagl.net.au/Livery_Gown.htm I have finished all my ruffs! The shoulder and the neck ruffs. I now have all...
I'm attempting my first (later 14th C) hood with liripipe. I've been watching the dang thang flop about on the cutting board and mentally comparing that with...
Good Day All: The event staff of the East Kingdom Southern Region Spring War Practice (Friday, April 15th, 2005 to Sunday, April 17th, 2005) is pleased to...
Okay found an image, sorry can't find a larger view of it; I was wondering what style are the dress, or at least your impression of the style. The artist is...
My lords and ladies, After reading out loud the question about the Hawaiian bread being possibly period, my dear hubby started searching the net. Here is what...
Greetings, I'm kind of a newbie. I used to subscribe to this group but dropped out of the SCA for awhile (and really missed it). I just renewed my membership...
I enjoy listening to story tellers and being read stories, but my mother used to read to us all the time. I was recently involved teaching a mother to sew, her...
Would anyone here have any links for Welsh clothing for the mid 16th century. I am starting my search online, but if anyone can point me in good direction I...
... I run hot and cold on doing A&S competitions. I have done them in the past, and have won most of the ones I enetered, but often I dont enter. Why? ...
at the http://www.wga.hu/index1.html is a picture called "the Virgin at the Spinning wheel" by a hungarian unknown artist, 1420-1430. It shows a spindle in her...
HI Bonnie: Try here: http://www.norskfjordfiber.com/catalog/clasps_page1.html these are pewter clasps very inexpensive and a variety of designs.Some start at...
Greetings, I am looking for a good inexpensive source for closure clasps or light weight cloak clasps to put on a bodice and a doublet. I am on a tight budget...
Thank you one and all for the Sewing Machine input! I am going to start shopping around yards sales and keeping an eye out on ebay maybe. My bud, being a...
Greetings, I've decided I want to make a cloak. I'm not an accomplished seamstress, as many of you are. I need a good plan or pattern. The ones I've looked at...
While looking through a book titled _the Paintings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts_ (don't even try a search for the museum cause you'll find it but no...
