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Just so that I can warehouse them somewhere:

EVERYTHING HERE

Love these from ladykalessia:
Medieval and Renaissance Accessories
Hold Your Fire (period fire vessels & modern versions thereof)

....all the things from mmcnealy...

...and these from claughter713...
Germanfest (German costume inspirations)
Rustic Kitchen Lust (because a girl can dream of a cooking hearth ( Read more... )

So I played dress up with my tiny 'tailors model' yesterday. I started with a pattern layout based on this:


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Here is the one we are working on...


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Looking back over my prior entries under the 'cloak' tag as I get ready to take this project on again. My thoughts:

1) Loading the images previously provided by mmcnealy here as the original links she provided seem to have died on my prior post (they were in the comments to my first entry on this subject, which went like this:

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Invasion Stories:

1)   First of all, the weekend of Invasion was the weekend of driving hell. We started our traveling on Friday, heading from mid-CA up to Sacramento for a wedding rehearsal and dinner. Friday night saw us backtracking South about an hour to our overnight location, and then up until late, Late, *LATE* with the bride while hubby ( Read more... )

Gordon Frye recalls the first time that he, Greig Fores [i], Carl Ontis and the gang headed out to faire dressed as Landsknechts as September of 1980. He is pretty clear on this date because, “it was one of my first visits to Northern Faire , and I was in company with my wife Charlotte, who was at that time pregnant with our eldest daughter ( Read more... )

For those of you following the Moose Hat thread, mmcnealyhas posted the full color versions here.

And because I am a freak, I am loading there here as well...

ALL PHOTOS BELONG TO mmcnealy!

And one more black and white from the Bildindex that is mentioned at M's site (for reference to the linen liner):


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And with any luck, I may even get him back in costume someday soon…

*evil plotty hand rubbing*

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“Friends First, Last, and Always”

Greig Fors met Carl Ontis (two of the founders of the original das Schwarz Fahnlein) in 1971 at the Mountain Ranch Rendezvous. Both Greig and Carl were involved in mountain man ( Read more... )

Look at these young ruffians; who the hell let them get armed and organized?

*shakes head in disbelief*


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