Eva's historical costuming blog

 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...

 If you want to hear and see me give a class on the general deveopment of medieval dress, now is your chance! This weekend the Kingdom of Dr...

 In July 2019 I started on an embroidered silk cloak, inspired by a cloak described the 13th century  Möttuls saga.  Möttuls saga is an Old ...