Eva's historical costuming blog

Last  weekend - the 10th to 12th of April - I made the nine hour train trip down to Hamburg for Drachenwald's Spring Crown. I planned t...

 While I was in Iceland to be an opponent on a PhD viva I visited the National Museum of Iceland (in the worst weather that I have ever expe...

 I have finished the gown that I have been working on on and off since before christmas. AND I have finished a page with loads of informatio...

 It took over a year, but I have now made a page for my striped 18th century gown. It is here:

 My striped gown inspired by a fresco by Buonamico Buffalmacco in Pisa is not only finished, but has its own page here.   I feel incredibly ...

When I make costumes with modern tools and techniques, and my green Venetian is definetely one of those because I am not going to hand sew a...

Further investigations into the deep vaults of old external hard drives makes me 95 % sure that it was in 2001 that I started on this gown. ...