Eva's historical costuming blog

Last week hubby and I visited Götheborg of Sweden , the world's only replica of an 18th century Ostindia ship. It was built 20 years ago...

One can argue about fifty years ago being historical, but it really is - trust me! I'm a historian. No matter how much I would prefer no...

 Well, it only took 17 years, but now it is finished for real. I had such great plans, then I made do with something less, and then in  autu...

I found this blue wool at a charity shop this winter. It hibernated a while in my wool cupboard, before I could make up my mind about what t...

 While working on a lecture about my folk costume and the studies I have done of rural manners of dress in that area i realized that I never...

 My sister Lena (her blog , which is mainly about food) has decided that her husband's 45th birthday party should be a 19th century dinn...

So, Gotvik had decided that our annual autumn event: Festivalo de Caderas, should include a masked ball.  I had planned to do research on ma...