Houppelandes for Kit and I for 12th night. Lightweight wool lined with linen, trimmed with faux fur (as real fur set off allergies).
Category Archives: Medieval Re-enactment
Becoming an Adultier Adult – a Pelican
This weekend at Twelfth Night 2020 I was surprised with an elevation to peer of the realm for service to the Society for Creative Anachronism, the medieval re-enactment hobby that I love. I was admitted to the Order of the Pelican, which is an honor analogous to being made a knight. I am grateful beyondContinueContinue reading “Becoming an Adultier Adult – a Pelican”
Rose Houppelande
My first houppelande! Lightweight heathered wool flannel, lined with heavy linen. Goals: dagged sleeves, stand-up collar, train, relatively conservative fabric volume through the torso.
Pretty Underwear: the German Hemd
The smock or shift worn under renaissance German clothing, whether Landsknecht or court, male or female, was called the hemd. There were three types of hemde worn with German garments, with slightly differing construction: high neck, round neck, and square neck. German women, in particular, rarely wore plain hemde. Instead, they preferred pretty underwear, linenContinueContinue reading “Pretty Underwear: the German Hemd”
The Printing Press and the Protestant Reformation
“[The printing press] is God’s highest and extremest form of grace, whereby the business of the gospel is driven forward.” ~Martin Luther In 1448, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press, accelerating change and growth throughout Europe. Literacy and knowledge had been formerly the province of the church and priesthood, but the advent ofContinueContinue reading “The Printing Press and the Protestant Reformation”
House Snark 