A Venetian gown from the middle of the 16th century

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-6-13
 I made this to wear to the Barony of Gotvik's investiture (SCA) in March, when my friends Alfhild and Mattis stepped up as baroness and baron. She is mostly doing 16th century, and I wanted to match.  Due to unforseen circumstances I ended up read more

Strawberry Raid IV Laurel Prize Display: Fermented Porridge

The Joy of Seax on 2025-6-3
Strawberry Raid IV is just over, and it included a Laurel Prize Display. This is an arrangement whereby aspiring artisans of whatever kind bring out their stuff to display it, and the attending Laurels (and everyone else) gets to look at it, poke read more

Learning to do sprang

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-6-2
Linnea Skog, or Meisterin Marlein Eberlin, as she is known in the SCA taught me how to make a sprang ribbon at Double Wars (SCA event in the south of Sweden) last week. Linnea, of course, is the Goddess of sprang. Her blog is over here. read more

Roman, early Imperial times, at Double Wars

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-6-1
I wore my wool tunica recta for the first time at an event this week. It is made from wool, and I love how it looks tied at the waist, and under the bust . I also tried making a sort of Roman hairdo for the first time. I had only vague memories read more

Roman wool tunica

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-5-26
I technically don't need Roman garb, I don't wear it in the SCA, and I don't do Roman (or any) re-renactment. But I had this wonderful 100 % wool etamine that just cried out to be a rectangular tunica. I wear a lot of modern versions of the read more

Sausage Making with Daniel Serra

The Joy of Seax on 2025-5-18
Daniel Serra is one of the authors of An Early Meal – a Viking Age Cookbook & Culinary Odyssey. He was running a sausage-making workshop at the Boyne Valley Viking Experience, so I found it absolutely necessary to go.These Viking things are read more

Make do and mend

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-5-16
 My beloved, trusted, linen hose, sewn over fifteen years ago are getting worn in places.Last year I mended one, and now I mended the other one  read more

Procrastination, thy name is...mine.

An Everyday Italian on 2025-5-14
My new frenHere we are again. I keep saying I'm going to update this blog more often, and then I keep not doing that. Eh. Well. There really hasn't been a lot going on in my historic art and craft world that I can talk about or show you, so that's read more

April 2025 crafts

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2025-5-11
This month’s update is late – because I did very little. At a sewing circle I cut out and started assembling a pair of çakşır, 16th Century Ottoman baggy trousers. The fabric is one of the printed cottons I bought a little while back from a seller read more

Peas & Lye

The Joy of Seax on 2025-4-28
Superb post here about medieval pea-processing. It’s a really good illustration of how processes that were reasonably well-known at the time, and which are described in medieval texts, are still difficult to reconstruct because the whole method has read more

 

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