Over 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 MoreIn preparation for a class on women’s headwear in France and the Low Countries that I am teaching at Rowany Festival I have started a count of the frequency of each hat type as represented in art. I thought I might...
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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