A friend of mine who I fence with recently learned how to do blackwork. Since I am an Elizabethan she wanted to do something for me as a token of our...
I know a lot of tv shows and movies are really terrible with their costuming, wrong styles or fabrics for the time and place. I have been watching the DVD...
I am trying to replicate this look, the dress in the forefront http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/15th/campbellp377a.jpg Any suggestions,links or advice for creating...
I have been looking at this painting, contemplating recreating the gown, and I have a few questions. It is the one on the left on this page: There is a black...
Hello list! I'm going to make a dress for Calontir's 25th anniversary event which is in February. I already know that fabric-store.com has a great Calontir...
I am trying to pull something together and was wondering if any of you had ever made a pair of these. If so, did you make the wooden sandal type shoes to go...
Hi Eryn... I have been researching (or trying to ) the cardboard thing for a while. I even had a chat to one of the authors of The Tudor Tailor re: cardboard,...
I know a tabard is typically "a rectangle with a neckhole", but I was looking for a few more details, particularly for a marshal's tabard. (My husband is a...
Okay, this may be a dumb question, but has anyone here ever worked with Harris tweed? Specifically, given that it's only 28" or so wide, is it possible to...
Can anyone tell me if "A pictorial history of embroidery" is the same book as "The art of embroidery" both published in 1964, written by Marie Schuette and...
I am going to be making a schaube, an Elizabethan short loose coat for a friend using Winter and Savoy's "Elizabethan Costuming". He has provided me with a...
I just did a burn test on two swatches of fabric because I'm not sure whether they're linen or cotton (though I suspect the latter). They both burned pretty...
On another list I'm on someone posted about the Byzantine exhibition in London (at the Royal Gallery?) and said the catalog was really good, had all the...
I'm looking for a copy of Simplicity 8725 (the cotehardie and sideless surcote pattern) in size 16-18-20. Does anyone have a copy in their pattern stash that...
Does anyone here have any good online resources for what kinds of buttons were used to fasten hoods. I don't want to make cloth ones, as they're too fiddly for...
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:08:13 -0000 "Lilith " <coffebean57@...> ... *grin* well, it's nice to know that there is a precedent for not picking just one...
I am interested in Greek Garb, can anyone provide me with some info or links on what to wear. Also what about the head pieces, what is exceptable in the SCA, I...
bamboo is a synthetic? so tell me how it is "made?" Arianwen ferch Arthur "Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. And inside of a dog it's too dark to...
Hi, Can anyone point me in the direction of any web sites that show evidence of what shape(s) of veils women wore in around the 9th century, apart from the...
My younger sister lost the pattern jacket and instructions. For what I could tell it is a Period Pattern #43, view 1. I have walked her thru the pattern via IM...
When I took Home Ec in HS and then textiles in college (way back in the last century) The difference between velvet and velveteen was that velvet wasw made...
Is there any evidence of sheepskin or shearling outerwear in period? This cold wave (tonight's low is supposed to be 7 degrees F, which is extremely cold for...
Does anybody have any links or documentation for an over coat from any time in period from any area? I am pretty well decided on an applique design for my...
Just for the record, years ago when I had Russian Wolfhounds (Borzoi), I used to save their long hair when they dropped coat about twice a year. It could be...
Hello All, I have a perplexing question. My persona is late 14th Bohemian, Court of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. The rub is I can't find out exactly the...
I was a theatrical costumer before I became an SCA clothier. In my training, one of my teachers told me that I could use modern patters for just about...
We had the house extention done last year (3x4m- for the computers, bookshelves and sewing room). And next Wednesday, we are scheduled to have the new wardrobe...
Milord and I are on a cleaning spree- and one of the most disorganized places in the house is our sewing room (yes, OUR sewing room!) We both like late-period...
