Whoops. I have had to sort and categorise all my North Rhine research because I finally found a very small but very important stream of information in the form of both artwork and archives. One of the problems with both is being sure that what I’m seeing is indeed from the time.

One archive record I reread used a modern modern translation- both ( Read more... )

Usually a lead in to “is this thing on” but nope. I think there is a duck tapping on the door. Not this time. Mamma duck will tap on the door if she has worked out there are people in the house that are not feeding her. Man are they clever little buggers. She has also perched on the window sill, over 2m off the ground, to see what we are up to. And ( Read more... )

I have a lot of jewelry to make/remake my various Cleves accessories, and finally I have enough to do so!

I really also need to make a few more purses- including the lion head purse) as they feature so much in the 1519 inventory. And at least a few very simple ones to store my jewelry in.

I’m finally in a position to be able to work on all of these ( Read more... )

But I’m writing about the up 🙂

I’ve been contacted by someone who has as much interst in Anne as I do and we both sort got very excited when we realised we had independantly come to the same conclusions on some fairly impotrant points.

And with our conversation she shared an image that made me do a little “yass” because it’s another piece of evidence ( Read more... )

So after more than a decade I think I really am at the point i need to just publish so I can build more. I think I have written this before.

But I have copied from the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII and I do indeed have 19thC transcriptions of the marriage negotiations for Anne! The 1527 one, a latin copy of the 1539, and the immediate reply ( Read more... )

and I have edited my post in the original site, I'm having a nap and will fix this later.

I spent a day yesterday gathering archival resources (I have multiple copies due to multiple scans and I really need to get them nice and tidied, it’s taking a while as you can imagine, but I found an entire class of sumptuary laws in plain sight so I’ll be ( Read more... )

I think in Anglo-centric writings and art history there has been a lot of context missing when interpreting the clothing depicted in the portraits of Anne of Cleves.

I have also been looking through modelbuchs at embroidery and found some patterns that seem to be used in art (if not in entirely there are deer/hart that look to be worked in a ( Read more... )

So I spent all of Saturday wiring small filigree pieces for my Amalia of Cleves ensemble. I was thinking of taking the velveteen off and putting brocade on, but then I may as well go whole hog and make the frock described by Hall for Anna. I have very big glass pearls to potentially work for the decoration. (I spend all day yesterday asleep because ( Read more... )

I still need to do some tidying, and I am definitely making a few more of these, so it’s not totally complete right now. I need to sit it slightly further forward too.


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I had to tidy my current costume stash and workroom. My workroom luckily was just some sweeping, I thought I left it in a more turned over state. So hooray!

But I have had to sort my entire stash to be able to find things. But I do now have everything in order of Want To Do 🙂 So I’m also making sure I actually do stuff now 🙂

So Netflix and Craft ( Read more... )