Last year I got interested in a the regional costumes of Noord Holland, affectionately known as the “Cheese Girls”. I recreated that outfit and wrote about it here. Because I was under some time constraints, I...
Read MoreIt’s time for an update on the dress I was making for Yule Feast, mostly as that event was 2 weeks ago. Also, mostly as I didn’t finish it. But that’s OK, as my sanity as event coordinator was way more...
Read MoreThis project is coming along well (see this post for design decisions and overall vision, and this one for the first progress update), despite having to do everyday things like go to work and sleep and general life admin. My aim...
Read MoreSome weeks ago I posted about the design decisions I was making for the gown I am making for the annual Rowany Yule Feast. Here’s the current situation: The gown has been patterned to sit over an existing lightly boned...
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(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...
Read MoreThis dress is affectionately known as “Karinne’s PINK dress” or “the pink party frock” by my friends. It is based on the picture shown below, “St Cecilia and her Fiancé”, by Cornelis...
Read MoreWhile trawling the internet looking for ways to make a waffenrock for my partner I came across Holly Stockley’s research site on renaissance clothing from the Low Countries. I love how she has analysed dress styles from...
Read MoreI think I have a thing for sleeves with a hole cut in the inner elbow for the arm to go through, because as soon as I saw the coat in Lucas van Leyden’s “The Card Players” I wanted to re-make it. I originally...
Read More16 June 2004 I am starting to get the sewing itch again so this is going to be my new project. While I am enjoying the middle class Dutch stuff that I am doing, and there is still plenty of research to do there, I am also...
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