Spindle whorls from Viking Age Britain
Clockwise from top left: bone, soapstone, soapstone, soapstone, sandstone, chalk So I'm lucky enough to live in an environment and in a...
Boy's Viking Outfit
My nephew will be attending his first SCA event this weekend and we wanted to get him outfitted in style. Luckily, other than the...
Children's Turnshoes
Our oldest nephew will be attending his first SCA event next weekend, so he and I scrambled together a viking outfit in about 72 hours. ...
Waiting for Spring Outfit
I love the color palette of this- dark greens and brown and gray- very evocative of the time of year it was made. Particularly as this...
Viking Winter Coat
For someone who couldn't care less what his everyday clothes look like, Adam has Opinions about his historical clothing. He had gotten...
Calontir Clothing Challenge, Layer 4
Layer 4 involved a bunch of accessories. The simplest was a veil, which was just a length of plain linen that I tried to dye but mostly...
Calontir Clothing Challenge, Layer 2 and 3
This is going to be a big photo dump, because things got done, but not written up, during the Thanksgiving/ Christmas rush. Layer 2: A...
Tangled webs, woven
November's mission was to get my new loom warped and my apron fabric woven. The loom is a 48" Ashford Rigid Heddle. Step 1 was to...
CCC: Month One
So it's almost the end of October, but the first snow is falling. It makes me glad that I looked forward to January and planned for...