(alternate title: Hey Karinne, don’t you own an iron!?) A few weeks ago I attended an event north of Sydney and wore an outfit that was the culmination of a decade of thinking and observation and making and testing. This...
Read MoreAfter 8 months of no updates I suppose an update is well over-due. Also, welcome to the new site! That’s the first update – sewing time turned into site creation time. I’m really excited about this new guise,...
Read MoreI’ve switched my focus a little from women’s clothing to men’s, partially thanks to the variety of illuminations that I now have access to, and partially as I need to clothe my other half in better gear than...
Read MoreOver Easter I was asked to join the Order of the Laurel, and made a decision to be elevated at Rowany Baronial change-over four weekends later, i.e. last night. This decision was made easier by the fact I had a dress close to...
Read MoreHSF Challenge #7: Tops and Toes The huik (also spelt heuk, heuke, hoik or hoyke) is a cloak-like garment with a distinctive “duck-bill” which appears in the artistic and written records of the Netherlands from around 1520,...
Read MoreEvery year at Rowany Festival I have the same problem on day 2 – I want something I can throw on quickly to go about camp to get coffee and make breakfast. Often I don’t want to be fussed with lacings or tight...
Read MoreThis is part 2 of the Hovetcleet Challenge, and my entry in the Historical Sew Fortnightly’s 2nd challenge: Innovation. Part 1: Hovetcleets and Oorijzers covers the history of this piece of headwear and some of my theories...
Read MoreMy sewing group recently posted its wrap up of completed projects for the year, I thought I’d replicate my list here, with photos. Low Countries Clothing Projects For me: Green linen kirtle with ruffled hem, including...
Read More(Dress completed for Lochac Midwinter Coronation, July 2013) Construction The bodice and skirt are cut from a pattern taken from Hunnisett’s Costuming for Stage and Screen: medieval-1500. This pattern has the shoulder...
Read More(completed 7 June 2013) An important step in developing a dress based on Flemish tapestries of the period 1500-1520 is getting the headgear right. A survey of Flemish tapestries shows the women wore a decorated coif under...
Read More(I’m catching up on some projects that I’ve not yet documented. This item was completed in June 2012) Somehow or other Lochac’s 30th anniversary feast snuck up on me, and I realised that I had nothing wonderful...
Read MoreBack in 2007 I decided to make a gown that would have been worn by a well-to-do woman in the Low Countries, a prosperous merchant’s wife or woman of the gentry. I perused the images of women depicted in triptychs of the...
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