Eva's historical costuming blog

So, I've been to Bologna, for the annual conference of the Dressing the Early Modern Network . It was really interesting and Bologna is ...

Just before I went to Visby for a few days at the Medieval week I made this  pearl garland. It's made from glass beads, and cheap...

I only went two and a half days to Visby Medieval week , and I'm really broke so my shopping was very limited. The metal trims ar...

I used to have another  red gown based on the Codex Manesse , but I lent it to someone and neither of us can find it and so I decided that I...

A cool thing with the Codex Manesse/Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift is that there are so many variations of the same basic garments a...

So, you have probably noticed that the one style/time period that I shy away from is the 14th century, say after 1330. It has not always bee...