The cloak I have an inexplicable passion for short cloaks. They're not the commonest or most documentable of garments, though, espec...

When it comes to reenactment, few things are as effctive as a planned event to get me working on Stuff I Need. In February 2013, it was ti...

Now that I've started spinning for real, I couldn't stop myself from making a test swatch out of my first bit of purpose-made warp ...

For some reason, my first version of this post disappeared yesterday. I don't know how, but it's not online or on my blogger homepag...

It's March, but winter refuses to go away. I know that most of my medieval gear works fine when the temperature creeps below zero, that...

I have several longer, more historically flavoured posts lined up, but in the meantime here's another half-finished embroidered childhoo...

Another completely un-blogged year has passed since my last post... Considering all the weaving, spinning and historical sewing I've act...