Me and my striped dress in Visby

Saying hello from one of the ruins in Visby. I am wearing my new striped dress, and small knitted cap, which you can find documentation and a knitting pattern for in this blog. Look for the tag "knitting".

I have also bought new shoes. 

A striped wool cotte

 As mentioned in my previous post I am making a wool outfit based on the obnoxiously striped ensembles in the Cocharelli treatise on vices.

I was initially planning to make both the cotte; the undertunic, with vertical stripes. But I changed my mind because horisontal stripes are much more common in the 13th and 14th centuries, which would make it much more versatile, since I could wear it on its own. And looking at the image source I noticed that the only thing you can see of the undergown (at least when not moving, since it's split at the sides, front and back) is the sleeves. I might regret this later, but I don't think so. 

And now I've got a new, pretty dress for the Medieval week on Gotland, which starts this Saturday. This is my first visit since 2016, where I went for three days and stayed with my friend Renike, who lives there. This year I am going for a whole week, and staying in a hostel with my friend Sara,

I will make a proper page for the outfit when the whole is finished later this autumn. I will even have fixed my hair for photos then ;) Though it isn't that uncommon to see women with loose hair udner veils in the 1330s.

Another Cocharelli inspired insanity

 This a leaf from the Cocharelli treaties of Vices, an illumination from  1330-1340 Genoa, which has brought me inspiration at least since 2018. It is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

In fact, I have written more than a couple of blog posts about it, you find them through the tag cocharelli project. I have also made two outfits inspired by the image, and I want to make them all.

Striped brocade outfit

Post about the blue outfit.

In that post, from 2022,  I stated that the white outfit was next on my list. Unless I found the perfect brocades.

Well, I haven't found it, and I haven't solved the problem of the bleeding gold trim (and I might have used up the cotton muslin that I had in mind when I wrote that). So I am going a little sideways, by making a dress more inspired, than a reproduction. It is also from a thin wool, whch suits the Swedish climate well.

But the stripes are obnoxious enough.

I will, of course, start with the cotte, which won't have the seam over the bust.

Fibulae for my Roman outfit

If I am going to wear Roman clothing I need fibulae, so I ordered these from Celtic Webmerchant  

A Venetian gown from the middle of the 16th century

 I made this to wear to the Barony of Gotvik's investiture (SCA) in March, when my friends Alfhild and Mattis stepped up as baroness and baron. She is mostly doing 16th century, and I wanted to match. 

 Due to unforseen circumstances I ended up working in the kitchen instead, so I never got to wear it.

And then things happened, and Double Wars, and more things, so I never took any photos of it. 

But today hubby and I went out to the yard outside our block of flats and snapped some. 

My inspiration was images like this from the middle of the 16th century Venice.

There may even be a page about it later, when I am out of the madness of grading that always comes with the end of the semester.

Learning to do sprang

Linnea Skog, or Meisterin Marlein Eberlin, as she is known in the SCA taught me how to make a sprang ribbon at Double Wars (SCA event in the south of Sweden) last week.

Linnea, of course, is the Goddess of sprang. Her blog is over here.

Roman, early Imperial times, at Double Wars

I wore my wool tunica recta for the first time at an event this week. 

It is made from wool, and I love how it looks tied at the waist, and under the bust .

I also tried making a sort of Roman hairdo for the first time. I had only vague memories of images and instructions, and winged it, but I like the result .

Two braids are pinned in front, at the hairline. The rest of the hair is wound with a wool ribbon and wrapped around the head, and the ribbon is wrapped a few more times before being tied. Then I added a wool hairnet .

Taking a walk to the lake through the beech woods .