Now that I've updated my black apron dress, I'm moving on to attempt fixes for other items in my Viking wardrobe, and it's pretty safe to say that I was not particularly satisfied with even the improvements I made to my Kragelund kirtle. I did wear it a couple days this past Pennsic, with shorter-sleeved dresses over it (like my 14th cen green de ( Read more... )

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The other pair of sark-layer under-dresses I wanted to try this summer are based on the Kragelund kirtle, so I'm in the planning stages for that.

The online sources all seem ultimately to be based on Poul Norlund's extremely simplified drawing, once you trace back that Carlson got it from Nockert who got it from Hald who got it from Norlund, and ( Read more... )