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 .