February 20, 2008

Viking Leg Wraps

http://users.bigpond.net.au/quarfwa/miklagard/Articles/legwraps3.htm

January 12, 2007

Fishing Weirs

Primative British fishweirs
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/074/07411001.pdf

Basket weir
http://www.le.ac.uk/ulas/annualreports/ar99-00/hemington/hemington.html

Fish weirs on the Tâf, Towy and Gwendraeth estuaries, Carmarthenshire.
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~rapanui/Fish_weirs/fish_weirs.htm

January 7, 2007

Kampfrau, 15??s

At 12th night this last weekend I scored ~9 yards of light grey wool. It's destined for the Kampfrau dress. I'm psyched to start on it.

November 15, 2006

Keeping time

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Picture taken by Arganteiline at Mists Fall Investiture, Nov 2006
Necklace fob that's a watch face. Very nice for keeping time discretely. And if you wear it on a black string.. it can take the place of the ubiquitous black string seen on late period german and italian garb.

http://artbeads.com/watch-55s.html

November 8, 2006

Saxony 1530 Gown

Woot! Lower sleeves went together very quickly. These have straight "hedgehogs"** unlike the upper sleeves where the top "hedgehogs" followed the curve of the armcye.

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November 6, 2006

Saxony 1530 Gown

It's not going as quickly now that there's not an immediate looming deadline.. but it is going. The bodice it now completely attached to the skirt. The part across the front where there is no bodice is attached to a piece of wool and then attached to the bottom of the white placket.

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November 1, 2006

Peri-oid looking cooler

Paper mache over a cooler to get a cooler cooler (that looks like a leather trunck).
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http://kelly.dwarfworks.com/sca/cooler/