

Weaving loose ends
Another autumn has come and there's been many things happening over the last year, many of them terrible (gestures broadly at the world) but a lot of small (and big), good things have happened within my small group that have kept me occupied for the past year. My Laurel won crown, again. This was an interesting, and vastly different crown tournament because the previous king and queen had needed to step down and Æthelmearc needed to hold two crown tourneys on a single d


Making a Laurel
On November 16, at Fabric, Fiber, and Fighting, I had the incredible honor of being elevated to the most Noble Order of the Laurel. ...


Bog 3 Day: All together now
The event has come and gone and things were finished in time! And worn! Except for the wool coats, because it was a balm 91 degrees and...


Bog 3 Day, the Weaving Set Up.
The Barony of St. Swithin's Bog in our Kingdom hosts a 3 day event in July every year called, very creatively, Bog 3 Day. This year the...


Birka Bj. 968: The Clothing
For the clothing of Birka Grave Bj. 968, I was fortunate that there were some fragments of textiles that were found on top of her oval...


12th Century
This is an outfit made for a friend for her Pelican ceremony a few years ago. The inner dress was cream linen and the bilaut was green...


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...


