March (Crafting update 2026)

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2026-3-31
March started off with a leatherworking frenzy. Our longbows arrived on the last days of February, and I had been working on a quiver (which I finished in February). I decided it was time to make myself a bracer, or two. Or three. I cut out a quick read more

Bootcamp 2026: Schwertkampf mit Freunden

SCA Osterreich - Schwertkampf on 2026-3-27
Zum Saisonauftakt trafen sich auch in diesem Jahr in Düdelsheim (Hessen) Kampfbegeisterter SCA-Mitglieder aus ganz Europa. Neben Schwertkampf mit Rattan-Waffen und Rapier-Fechten war dieses Jahr erstmals Bogenschießen Teil des Programms. […] Der read more

Diagonally striped like it's 1336

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-3-17
 My striped gown inspired by a fresco by Buonamico Buffalmacco in Pisa is not only finished, but has its own page here. I feel incredibly pretty in it. Now I just need to make a matching kirtle, instead of using the one from my Bernardo Daddi read more

February (Craft update 2026)

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2026-3-3
This February I have been busy in the loom, weaving Birka twill, as well as doing some leatherwork. We have purchased longbows to use in the SCA, but not quivers and other accessories. For practicing during the weeks we have also bought arm guards read more

Hanging upside down

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-3-1
When I make costumes with modern tools and techniques, and my green Venetian is definetely one of those because I am not going to hand sew a gown made from second hand velvet curtains, I have a few tricks that I use. One is to sew the lining and read more

And we have sleeves

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-2-19
Further investigations into the deep vaults of old external hard drives makes me 95 % sure that it was in 2001 that I started on this gown.I wrote in a previous post about how it was put away then and never finished, but that I decided to finish it read more

Tri-Kingdom University and Scandinavian Sumptuary Laws

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-2-10
 Last weekend was the Tri-Kingdom University, a combined online university by the SCA kingdoms of Drachenwald (Europe), Atlantia (US) and Lochac (Australia and New Zealand).It is nice to be able to both teach, and learn new things from your own read more

Progress on the striped gown

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-1-30
I am terribly busy these days: I am evaluating a manuscript for a PhD thesis and writing a report about it, I have a class at Drachenwald's Online Kingdom University, this time in collaberation with the Kingdoms of Atlantia and Lochac, so it's read more

Another Italian 14th century gown

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-1-24
As you might remember I got tipsy from mimosa in Hans-Gunnar's market tent on Tuesday of the Medieval week. And ended up buying this fabulous wool fabric from Historiska Rum.I had first planned to make a pretty straight forward late 14th century read more

BootCamp Meadowmarsh 2026

SCA Osterreich - Schwertkampf on 2026-1-21
Auch heuer wieder laden unsere liebsten Nachbarn im Shire Meadowmarsh zum traditionennen Schwertkampf-Trainingswochenende nach Düdelsheim (Hessen). Die legendäre Zusammenkunft erfreut sich seit vielen Jahren großer Beliebtheit- nicht nur für read more

working on my 16th sleeves

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-1-8
I have been busy working, and making a modern wool skirt, but I AM also working on my cut out velvet sleeves. The flowers are not perfectly even, but perfection is rare in period.The wool skirt in question  Yes, we have lots of snow for read more

Happy New Year!

Knights Crossing on 2026-1-3
(English below) Frohes neues Jahr von der Baronin und dem Baron von Knight’s Crossing! Zum Beginn des Jahres 2026 senden wir euch allen unsere herzlichsten Wünsche. Ob ihr gerade eine ruhige Pause genießt oder schon wieder im Alltag angekommen seid read more

A headband for my 14th century Italian Cocharelli outfit

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-1-1
 Like any normal person I had started on/prepared for two hand sewing projects for my New Years Eve celebration.The first was this headband made from a piece of vintage metallic trim, faux peaels and glass beads, and thrifted vintage grosgrain read more

Salted beef

The Irish Ages on 2025-12-30
Salted beef also known as corned beef kale and cabbage pottage with barley To be honest I have never eaten salted beef dish, but intend to, but am actually more interested in whether it was eaten in Ireland in medieval times. Yes it was because the read more

OYEZ, OYEZ!

Knights Crossing on 2025-12-22
Von Baroness Estrid und Baron Adam (English below) Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde der Baronie, während die Winterzeit einkehrt und es insgesamt etwas ruhiger wird, möchten wir euch allen hier in Knight’s Crossing herzliche Feiertagsgrüße senden. Ganz read more

4. Jänner: Jahresauftakt-Training mit Sir Aelric

SCA Osterreich - Schwertkampf on 2025-12-13
Am Sonntag, dem 4. Jänner 2026 begehen wir das Schwertkampf-Jahr mit dem traditionellen Auftakttraining. Besonders freuen wir uns über hohen Besuch: die besondere Zierde der Ritterschaft Drachenwalds, Sir Aelric of […] Der Beitrag 4. Jänner: read more

Finally good photos of one of 12th century gowns

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-12-7
I made this dress from slk shantung back in 2014.  But I never managed to get a good photo of it, just very dark ones from Double Wars 2015Or sitting down, at Double Wars 2014But I wore it to Gotvik's Christmas party today, and my friend Mattias read more

 

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