Medieval week Friday and Saturday

 I got busy moving around thigns in our flat, plus visting my sister and her family on Friday, and my mum on Saturday, but here, finally, are photos from Friday and Saturday.

On Frday Sara and I went to have a look at the Battle of Wisby camp. Battel of Wisby is a large re-enactment of a battle from 1361, which takes place every three years. They also have an open camp, and on Friday it was market day.

Some photos from that visit.

Then I went for a swim. No surprise there.

Italian cotton dress and reed hat.

And in my supportive linen shift after the swim.

Then we had dinner and I decided to go out and see if I would run into friends. The sun was strong and we had spent a lot of time outdoors in the middle of the day, so my skin felt hot, and I decided that it would be nice to wear some cool, soft silk.

I also thought that it would be nice to actually wear all the clothes that I had brought with me. So I wore a blue ca 1320-1330 gown that I made in 2006. I  wore it to the medieval week that summer, but I also wore it to my viva party that year , after I had defeneded my PhD thesis, and spilled gravy on it. I twas possible to hand wash but the colour got a little unven after that. To hide that I printed a pattern on it with "gold" textile paint.

I went to the market and had a beer with Hans Gunnar, and ran into some people that I know from the early 16th century group ProKnekt. Then I went down to the sea. It was magical.

And I took a really good selfie.

Well, actually, more than one.

Here you can see the whole dress. In the dark, woth the phone perched on a ruined church wall.

Then bed and a good night's sleep.

Next morning I Sara, her partner, and their other partner went to Kapitelhusgården and the market for some last day shopping.

Sara and I looked silly together at Kapitelhusgården.

And she looked rather regal in her Germanic Iron age peplos, when on her own.

More market. This is the Polish folk group Daj Ognia playing on the market.

And more swimming, more walking, more market beer, and then to bed for the trip home to Gotheburg.

Home is nice too.