How to Splice Wool Yarn
My first naalbinding project was a hat, and I didn’t know how to splice my yarn, so I just tied it. This time, I learned how to splice my wool yarn. It’s very easy! You unravel your ends, put one on top of the other, …
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14th Century Cotehardie – Finishing the Dress
Read Part 1 – Drafting the Pattern Read Part 2 – Dyeing the Fabric Once I had my pattern drawn and fabric dyed, cutting and assembling the dress went quite quickly. I used my sewing machine and modern sewing techniques such as sewing the neckline …
14th Century Cotehardie – Dyeing the Fabric
Read part 1: Drafting the Pattern While working on the cotehardie pattern, I was also thinking about fabric. The lining was easy – a midweight off-white linen. The main fabric was trickier. I wanted to do a particolored cotehardie, and I had been learning about …
14th Century Cotehardie – Drafting the Pattern
For the Las Vegas Renaissance Faire last year, I decided that I wanted an outfit in keeping with the group I was camping with: a 13th century mercenary company. So I went for a late 13th century/early 14th century, lower upper-class English lady fallen on …
Fourteenth Century Hood – Self-Drafted with Handmade Buttons and Buttonholes
For a first attempt at a fourteenth century hood, this went together remarkably well. I used my Viking hood for the basic dimensions and then drafted the front opening turn-back and liripipe around that. It took a few tries to get the side gore the …
What Colour do Onion Skins Make? Viking Era Natural Dyes
I recently participated in a natural dyes workshop, put on by Fjellborg, the Viking group I have joined in Denver. It was so much fun and I learned masses. All the linen and wool which we wanted to dye had to first be mordanted to …
Viking Hood, Coat and Gloves
I made my Viking hood in 2014, when a friend gave me a yard of a lovely dark brown wool. It is based on the Skjoldehamn find, made in the brown wool, lined in flannel. I started with the lining, and I’m glad I did, …