Eva's historical costuming blog

Well, since my last post I have been to Ireland. I have seen the hill of Tara, Newgrange, The Giants' Causeway, Dunluce castle, the char...

The list of costumes that I had actually made pages for ion the left side of the blog was becoming too long and unwieldy, so I decided to or...

Snow fight from the ca 1400 frescoes in the Eagle Tower of Castello Buonconsiglio in Trento, Italy. Judging from their dress it's a...

So, a friend is moving and I bought her stash of gold trim, over 50 metres of it.

I have now written a rather long documentation on mine and my husband's printed wool gowns from c.1300. Where you get to know all the t...

Since I am very fond of the clothes shown in the Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift the problem of applying broad, generally gold colour...

To celebrate its 50th anniversary Costume - the journal of the costume society, one of the most important scholarly journals on the history ...

This blog is a way for me too try and make the information from my old costuming web page that I started over ten years ago more accessible....