ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online

ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online.
This site is *fabulous*. I got sent to this from a random article, and just as a test, typed in a book I had been looking for for *years* (Margaret Scott’s The History of Dress: Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500) and never found for a price I was willing [...]

Ok, so Ymir is done, now what?

So, a week has passed since the marathon sprint that was Ymir garb. Maestra Maddalena says I should promise never to do anything quite that rushed again, and I almost do, but since I have rather strong feelings about promises and whether I can keep them, I’m not quite willing to do so. Still, I [...]

A long weekend…

Well, really it wasn’t that long. In fact, I wish it had been longer, as I didn’t get as much done as I planned, but enough thinking about that.
As I was blockaded in my sewing room for much of the weekend, I listened to a lot more music than usual. And as a confession? My [...]

Expensive Fabric is Expensive…

So someone on h-cost posted a link to this company (click the picture) earlier today.
It’s completely unfair that to make a houppelande out of it (it’s 100% silk) it’d cost me something more than a mortgage payment.
I really ought to be able to dress myself in the style of my persona.
Even if my persona has [...]

Black and Gold Houppelande

Black and Gold Houppelande, circa 1420

The goal for this gown was to make something fun and dramatic for Atlantia’s Kingdom 12th Night (2007).
This gown is not based on any specific illumination; elements are taken from several roughly contemporaneous images but I can’t say for sure they would have been combined this way. The collar is [...]

The Joys and Woes of Hyperfocus?

So I mentioned at the Kappellenberg meeting that we were re-designing Erminespot… this process was expected to take something like a week. Well… I got interested. Which means it’s mostly up now. While most of the content hasn’t changed from the previous Erminespot, and the gallery is still a bit… fugly, there are a few [...]

Purple Gown – Tacuinum Sanitatis

Dress in the Italian Style

 
 
What, Where, When:

This dress is based on an image from the manuscript BNF Latine 1673[1], a Tacuinum  Sanitatis that was copied and illustrated in Milan around 1390-1400.

It is an overgown, intended to be worn over a second, supportive undergown with long sleeves.

 
 
 
 
Source:
The gown is based on manuscript BNF Latine 1673, [...]