Hey all, just bemusedly wondering if any of you over there in the US are going to the university of Ithra in AnTir on the 16/17 of this month? It seems that my...
I've uploaded pictures of the Really Blue Bliaut to my pBase site. These pictures don't actually show the color of the fabric very well, as it was midnight...
Hello I know this keeps coming up on this list, but bear with me. I have some beautiful purple linen at home I was going to make into either a full T-tunic or...
I'd love to see pictures from the Garb a Newcomer challenge that was held at Cattle Raids in September. This is the one where participants created an outfit...
hello all, wasn't sure if this site was well known for extant though OOP, gowns and such. http://dept.kent.edu/museum/costume/ Ah, lovely things to drool...
I posted a photo of my first embroidery attempt to try to make my new persona a little more authentic (11th century Anglo-Saxon-Norman mixed breed). It is the...
Greetings and Salutations SCA-Garb Y!Group: I'd like to this time around be more involved in Middle Eastern Belly Dance in a sharing-n-caring fashion! And...
I'm not a lover of pink (in fact I usually hate it) but I think that is a particularly lovely and harmonious combination. The Chinese (amongst others) are...
Bedtime Prayer Now I lay me Down to sleep. I pray the Lord My shape to keep. Please no wrinkles Please no bags And please lift my butt Before it sags. Please...
I uploaded a couple of images (Files section, under Obnoxious Fabric) for those of you that like this sort of thing. 41R is the most impressively hideous:...
Costumes of the East by Walter A Fairservis, Jr. (The American Museum of Natural History) I purchased this book hoping they'd be Hungarian costumes and there...
Blatant off topic advertising AKA trolling in my group is right out unless you ASK for permission first. As a long time SCAdian with a Middle Eastern persona...
I asked a question of an ebay seller re: some fabric she listed one place as linen and another place as cotton. This is the answer I got. What the heck does...
Hello I haven't been keeping up with the posts here lately, but today someone mentioned "the Christine de Pisan gown". Excuse my ignorance, but what *is* the...
hi all.... sorry for the cross post but I am trying to be "efficient" <HAH!> assuming my computer is actually behaving I should be back receiving mail from...
Uh, Kirstin? I was one of those people who served in the military to ensure freedom of rights - as is my husband, whose bullet-wound still aches at times. ... ...
Now who was looking for cheap silk? http://store.yahoo.com/phoenixtextiles/silkmatka.html MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM raw silk... and almost affordable even. :)...
I am in love with the kirtle in Patterns of Fashion, pg 109-11, also Fig. 311-17. I absolutely love this. I've drafted a pattern for one, a cross between...
And at a frigidly cold Crown in Atlantia, Duke Logan Ebonwolfe defeated Count Ragnar to become our Crown Prince. His Grace fought for the honor of (I believe)...
Please be alert! Tell your friends to keep checking eBay every day. Lots of stuff turns up there. Also, go to the resale shops and flea markets within 100...
Greetings and salutations......... I am wanting to make some chemises for myself and my daughter. While I don't have a whole lot of money for material, my...
In the last round there were three fighters, Sir Godwin of Edington (swoon) Jason Macpherson, and my lord Miguel, whose bynames I don't remember. It was ...
Greetings to the List, I am the original tough guy sheild-wall thug that learned how to sew making his own gambeson. Since then, I gave back the loaner machine...
I am starting my first non-camping garb project in the next few days and would like to hear people's experience on embroidering on clothing. I am planning a...
