A page for my high-waisted late 13th - early 14th century gown from Verona

It took a while, but now you can read all about one of the weirdest gowns I've made here.

A painted chest

So, you don't only need clothes to go to events, at least not to camping events. You also need somewhere to store your clothing. 16 years ago my stepdad and I made nice solid wood chests, without nails. They were, however, both heavy and too large for our storage. We ended up leaving them with friends on Gotland, since at that time we went to Visby medieval week every year, and that was the only place we used. Seemed much smarter to pick them up there instead of lugging them across Sweden every summer.

And then we stopped going. It was so much work, and it's so much easier for us to go to Double Wars, the other great camping event in Sweden. Of course you miss out on the lovely medieval town and all the concerts, lectures and other happenings, but it really was too much work. We may go again, but we haven't done it for six years.

So then our big chests ended up on Gotland, and since I couldn't figure out a way to get them here, and we really didn't have the space anyway, I donated them to people on Gotland.

For Double Wars I used a couple of chests made from wood chip. But one of them is getting old and rickety and they also have this very 19th- 20th century look. So I decided to make two breakdown plywood chests, inspired by the ones made by House Greydragon. My plan was to have them finished when we went to Double Wars, but with the work load that I had in April and May that was impossible. So now I am slowly putting the panels together and painting them. This far I have painted one lid and one large panel.

Thos chest will have motifs from the Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift on all sides, the other one will have other courtly motifs.

1940s-ish

Not really historical, but since I mentioned two dresses in the 1940s style in my previous post about my sewing list I thought that I'd show how they turned out.

Sewing list

So, on Friday I went to a viva, where a colleague defended his PhD thesis. While interesing enough I do have a problem concentrating for two hours, unless I have something to knit och sew with me, so I started makign a sewing list.

I love making sewing lists, I find them everyhwere in my notebooks from seminars or from travelling. But I haven't made many the last years, because I sort of had all the historical clothes I needed. But since I became a baroness in March 2016, and even more since I lost so much weight (34 kilos) I've started sewing again, and hence: making sewing lists.

So, this is what this one says:

Sewing list June 2017
Mint green Italian  sleeved surcoat ca 1330.
Wrap dress (1940s style) in printed cotton in blue end red This one I cut and almost finished yesterday. It only needs to have the skirt and ties attached.
Sun dress (1950s style) in mint green cotton with tiny blue dots
Italian late 15th century gown in red velvet with turquoise velvet brocade sleeves
New hose for Rickard
New hose for me
Green wool surcoat without sleeves
Supportive linen shift - re-make
Lengberg bra?


Re-make in the future 
Red velvet Swedish 16th century gown with green brocade
Mint green Italian 14th century
Purple silk bliaut 
Green Swedish 16th century wool dress (no images, never worn, I wasn't happy with it)
Red Swedish 16th century under gown based on a statue from Dala Järna (no images, never worn, I wasn't happy with it)
Blue over gown gown based on a statue from Dala Järna (no images, never worn, I wasn't happy with it)
Burgundy ("modern") grosgrain skirt
Light yellow 1940s style summer dress. Re-made to a wrap dress yesterday.

Sewing (Again. I ran out of re-make stuff)
Giornea - colour?
Saya?
Italian 16th century in turquoise blue
Pisa gown from red velvet 
Tudor gown?

Laurels and apprentices

During Double Wars Jonas Evertsson/Lord Edricus filius Offaeus took this photo of Mistress Helwig Ulfsdotter and all her apprentices, her former apprentices, now mistresses themselves, and their apprentices - the "grandchildren"

Mistress Helwig is the woman in the middle, she is my mistress, to the right of her are my "siblings", her other apprentices: the king and queen of Drachenwald, William and Isabetta, and viscountess Filippa.  To the left of Helwig are first Mistress Tece de Kaxtone, the newest of the Laurels, and former apprentice to the woman next to her:  Mistress Lia de Thornegge, Mistrsss Helwig's first apprentice. Lady Silva standing on the far left is Lia's apprentice. Sitting down it's me, and duchess Agnes Odygd, who just had become Mistress Tece's first apprentice.

Family!

Really old clothes

I made these 1997 or 1998.
Now they fit again. Though the red wool one is still too short in front (not that I expected that to change from being in storage over a decade) and will need to get a border in another colour around the bottom of the dress.

Double Wars in Costumes

So, yesterday I got back from the wonderful SCA event Double Wars, where I spent a week, Saturday to Saturday - living in my pavilion, hanging out with friends. And dressing up, becuse there were plenty of courts, and a masked ball.

This year I went to more classes than I have ever done, most of them dance classes, held by mistress Caitlin from Gaita. I also made a mask for the ball, at a class held by viscountess Wilhelmina Weydehartz.

My husband and youngest daughter came on Wednesday, which of course made it even nicer.

I managed to get good photos of gowns too, so there will be more pages with documentation and discussion as soon as the semester is over and I can focus on something else than work.

Until then I will just show you pictures from the event, and of mine and my friend's and family's clothing.

Alfhild de Foxley showing off her Burgundian finery.

And 14th century

My pavilion and parts of the camp

Inside the pavilion. This was the first time we had a proper bed. Maja's bed is a camping bed with an extra mattress.

Resting in the pavilion

The blue embroidered gown.

The silk gown of much shininess.

Everyday wear ca 1300.

In peplos for Matti's lecture on migration era clothing.

Late 13th century Italian. This gown will get it's own page.

Me and Aelfwynne, the Princess of Nordmark. I'm wearing my new mi-parti gown based on a 13th century Sicilian manuscript.

The same gown, with a belt.

This is also an Italian gown from ca 1330-1340. It needs its overgown from the same fabric, but since this fabric was an absolute pain to cut and sew that hasn't been made yet.

My green and white Italian ca 1320-1330

It's a lot looser than it was, despite me taking it in.

On my way to the masked ball:

Family photo.

Maja in her 16th century german gown. She's grown quite a lot in two years.

And her yellow Italian, going to the ball.

Maja in the woods in her wool 16th century gown.

Matti proudly showing of his Migration era outfit. He also held a very interesting class about clothing in this period.

My husband in his mi-parti ca 1300 gown.

Rickard, late 13th century, speaking with Peder about archery.

Gotvik's camp

Julia and Ysabel in camp

The then not yet Princess of Nordmark, Aelfwynne, and Alfhild in camp.

The newly engaged couple Alfhild and Matti.

Gudrun and Arvid

The whole family, inspecting my pavilion. Dad's name is Emund.

Alfhild and Ysabel

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