Look out your window & I'll be gone...
I decided a while ago to leave Plimoth Plantation so I can concentrate on a range of wood-working that falls outside the guidelines of 17th-century English furniture. That work continues to fascinate me, but I've been drawn in several different directions in recent years, some re-visits of work I have done ( Read more... )

Vestal Hairdressing: recreating the "Seni Crines"

(From smuzikant)

Military History or Living History?

I don’t pretend to be a blacksmith I am one. We’re not pretending to bake bread we're actually doing it. That’s not something you can say for the average martial persona which, by their very nature have inherent limitations. When was the last time Viking re-enactors actually stole, killed, and brought ( Read more... )

Ann Althouse looks at Joshua Green's Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi? and asks:
How evil is it for a candidate to play the role of a Nazi in war reenactments? How evil is it for a journalist to write about that and bury - in the 13th paragraph - the news that the same man - Rich Iott - has also done reenactment as a Civil War ( Read more... )

Colonial Civil War Medici style ballgown

( Why I lost it on Sunday )

Clothing styles communicate across centuries.

Via Explorator.

In about 1/2 hour mia_mcdavid and I will be leaving for the weekend. We will be part of colgaffneyis show at the Olde World Renaissance Faire in Twig, Minnesota (near Duluth). ( Read more... )

Read a Letter to the Franklin Institute and think again.

From kass_rants:

If It Ain't Broke...
You see, in the medieval and Renaissance periods, people had to make use of every scrap of fabric. Labour was cheap and fabric was expensive. In the early modern period that followed, wealthy people wore lace collars that would equate in price to an estate in Ireland. So you see where I'm going with this. If you had ( Read more... )