over-complicating costumes since forever ago
I have been trying to work out if the Codice de Trajes can be trusted for the figures of women from Juelich. These are a lot of figures with nearly the same dress and sleeve arrangement after all and this is not an arrangement we see in the Bruyn portraits of women of Cologne. I decided…
The portrait of Anne of Cleves is perhaps the most well known example of headwear worn in the region of the North Rhine. It is found in Gelderland, Jüllich-Cleve-Berg, as well as Cologne. There are dozens of portraits especially of women of Cologne wearing highly decorated as well as plain linen variations. Finding any direct…
From Facebook: Emily Gibbs to Canterbury Faire 2018, 29 January at 19:58 · Kaikoura Suburban, New Zealand I am so inordinately happy with this! It has everything I love about the Cranach Saxon style with the weirdness of everything in the Nordrein (North Rhine.) But it is weird. I’ll break down all the weirdness as I…
(Mina is the shortform of my SCA name and tends to be used just as a nickname for me- I like it 🙂 ) I just grabbed a set of a knife and fork from Trademe- mother of pearl handles, silver decorative join to the functional end. Not suse the content of the functional end….
I don’t know how I got this energy- well I do and it has everything to do with my therapy and being able to actually do stuff and then build up on that to do more stuff 🙂 Had a day of sleep at one stage though 🙂 So the frame is apparently the perfect…
Progress from 2006: Progress 2016 after stripping all the fire damaged bezants and sequins: New pearls on the upper right, the same pattern was repeated on the upper left and a matching overlapping design added to the lower part. Yes, it looks very wobbly. This is part of how the fabric was eased over the…
I was not sure that I would actually restart my blog, however with fixing my phone so it can take photos, and all that has happened in the last month I think it is now time 🙂 I will stick to health and costume updates alone. This shows the newly secured vinyl floor in place…
bestofcosplay: Cleves Blue 1 by ~glittersweet I’m surprised this got even one note 😉 Seriously, I’m flattered as this is a style that doesn’t really fit in with the modern aesthetic 🙂 It’s accurate, right down to pinned on sleeves (okay that is my conjecture based on woodcuts of the time as well as written…