Eva's historical costuming blog

 Yes! My one year (or five, depending on if you count the four years when I didn't work on it) project of making first a cloak inspired ...

 The page about my folk costume has now been updated with info about, and photos of, the new bodice, and some new photos of the older pieces.

 The new folk costume bodice is finished. Like my other folk costume bodices it is made from a hand woven half wool (cotton warp, ought to b...

 Unfortunately both bodices that I made for my folk costume  have shrunk in the closet ;) This summer I inserted panels at the side of my ne...

 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...