Eva's historical costuming blog

 While I have written about the written sources for matching sets of cloting (see previous post) I haven't relly shown any period art sh...

Continued from this post: The tale of the Mantle four years later. So, I finished the actual mantle in the end of last year. But I decided t...

 So, I have updated my list of secondhand shops that might be useful for people doing the SCA, re-enactment or other types of historical cos...

 If you want to hear and see me give a class on the general deveopment of medieval dress, now is your chance! This weekend the Kingdom of Dr...

 In July 2019 I started on an embroidered silk cloak, inspired by a cloak described the 13th century  Möttuls saga.  Möttuls saga is an Old ...

Last week hubby and I visited Götheborg of Sweden , the world's only replica of an 18th century Ostindia ship. It was built 20 years ago...

One can argue about fifty years ago being historical, but it really is - trust me! I'm a historian. No matter how much I would prefer no...