Monday, February 12, 2018

A quick short cape for Carnivale

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One of my co-workers wanted to come with me to Venice. I told her, if she came, I would make her a quick cape or surcote - something that w...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

1510s/Early 1520's Venetian gown with velvet sleeves

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First, a few of the inspiration images: Lucrezia di Baccio del Fede, the Artist's Wife - Andrea del Sarto, 1513 1510 1510'...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Everything you need to know about garbing you learned in Kindergarten part 5! Easy patterns and other useful info.

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Below is a list of various patterns online for free. Many of these are pretty easy to cut if you can cut out squares, rectangles, and some...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Everything you need to know about garbing you learned in Kindergarten part 4! Orange, Green, Brown, Pink and Purple!

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I was thinking of splitting up these colors and doing a separate post just on pink and purple because of the mythology regarding those two c...
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Saturday, January 13, 2018

Everything you need to know about garbing you learned in Kindergarten part 3! Primary Colors!

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My own yarn that I dyed with Safflower on the left , madder on the right.  The middle one was a mix.   Red: Madder . Almost ever...
Monday, January 1, 2018

Everything you need to know about garbing you learned in Kindergarten part 2! The Monochrome-ish addition!

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Today, I want to tackle two myths at once: Our ancestors in the middle ages didn't have "real" white, it was more a natural c...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Everything you needed to know about SCA garbing, you learned in kindergarten.

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At Storvik Novice and at Pennsic I taught a pretty well received class about the basics of garbing. It's just a general overview expla...