Yaaaarrrrrr! This is so frustrating. I just want five or six yards of a large repeat brocade, suitable for a Venetian dress* ca. 1560-80, preferably jewel tones of red, blue or green. It doesn't even have to be silk -- I'll settle for a cotton blend. And I don't want to spend more than $75.

And I keep finding stuff that I like, but there's ( Read more... )

I went to my first SCA event EVER today, and had a good time. For it, I was planning on whipping up (cue maniacal laughter) out of this burgundy velvet I got for a song, but the fabric doesn't want to be that. It wants to be mid-sixteenth century Venetian. Or maybe just Italian -- based on the Eleanora di Toledo gown ( Read more... )