Most of the time I portray a moderately high-status c.600 CE Langobard man in what is now northern Italy. Where I live in real life, there are very few other people reenacting this particular period, and I am usually the only Langobard at events I attend. On the other hand, there are many, many peopleContinue reading “9th century Frisian Kit”
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Iron Age Scandinavian Kit
My greatest love is the late Migration Era, but for this project I wanted to create a full set of soft kit that would be appropriate for a “Roman Iron Age” presentation from Scandinavia in the late 3rd or 4th century CE. The goal was to put together a set of everyday clothing that wasContinue reading “Iron Age Scandinavian Kit”
Experimental underwear
If that isn’t a clickbait title, I don’t know what is. Seriously, though, this was a little project I did to try to understand not just *how* the garment was put together, but how the maker might have patterned the garment for a specific recipient – that is, how they determined the proportions and dimensionsContinue reading “Experimental underwear”
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