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  • A 16th Century Turkish-Venetian Coat

    -or- A Tale of Two Coats * with side-quests! by THL Rannveig Hrajshvelgsneys Alfvinsdottir of the Barony of Blackstone Mountain Born out of a desire for fancy garb that didn’t need a belt, this documentation is primarily a compare and contrast of the commonly called Turkish-Venetian coats seen in Italian Renaissance art throughout the late……

  • Silver Jubilees and Goldhaubs

    The following post is the documentation for a pair of Goldhaubs I entered in The 25th Annual Tournament of the White Hart in the Shire of Port Oasis in the Kingdom of AEthelmearc. If you are not familiar with this fabulous event, the Tournament of the White Hart is styled after the idealized medieval tournament,……

  • Rome! Live and In Living Color!

    This is the documentation for my 2023 7 Pearls Arts and Sciences competition entry. My intention is to come back and flesh this out more over time to create more of aa easy guide to roman costuming. However I’ve had several requests for this documentation recently in the run up to Pennsic so I figured……

  • It’s PeliCAN, not PeliCAN’T, and we sure PeliDID!

    I have had every intention to write a deep dive blog for this *massive* project I undertook, however I am now three more big projects deep since this one, so decided it would be good to at least get the original post-event Facebook post up on here as a place holder. ——————————————————————————————————————– SCA Post: Hey……

  • Drafting a Custom Neck Hole Pattern

    This is intended as a kind of add-on to my previous post on how to do a facing. When I’ve taught the facing class in person we’ve often done this in class when other people were available to help measure. For years I would search the house looking for random bowls, dishes, or other round-ish objects……

  • Facings 101 ( Why facings really are fun & easy for everyone!)

    This blog post is one of my oldest, having been originally part of a blog I had created as a college project. When I decided to start blogging more seriously, I looked into updating my old site, but eventually decided to go with a whole new blog on a different (easier to use) platform. For……

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Hi! I’m a largly self-taught seamstress with a particular love for historical fashions, although I do occasionly delve into fantasy, cosplay, and even modern fashion now and then. The majority of my historical sewing revolves around the Society of Creative Anachronism, a historical reenactment group with a delightfully broad time range, and in the society I am known as Lady Rannvieg Hrajshvelgsneys Alfvinsdottir.

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