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Making Braies – A Photo Guide
My braies guide, here, is rather old. And one of the requests I get from people…
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The problem with glasses on the field, and how to solve it
Furthering my previous blog post about boob safety, I thought why not continue to be a…
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Dodging artistic intent when interpreting manuscripts
I often see this above particular image of Eve spinning from the Huntarian Psalter being used…
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Taking Head casts for hats and helmets.
When commissioning a hat or helmet, or indeed anything it’s always best for it to be…
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Let’s talk about boobs in re-enactment combat
A note on this post, Scientific literature states ‘Female Breasts’ as a mechanism to distinguish breasts…
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Pottage, The medieval kitchen staple
What goes in a pottage? Pottage doesn’t exactly have a recipe, it’s a catch-all term for…
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The Medieval Spice Shelf & House mix.
A video, heavily edited, of one of my groups members delivering the kitchen talk was posted…
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The Bocksten Tunic (or dress). Pt.3 Sewing.
Before we start sticking together our pattern pieces we need to know how to sew ‘authentically’.…
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The Bocksten Tunic (or dress). Pt.1: breaking down the pattern.
There are several tunics we have extant from in or around the 12th century. One of…