Blog Posts

  • How to Make a Chiton

    And/or peplos or, as I prefer to call it, a tube dress Make a rectangle or tube dress, it’s the easiest garb ever and applies well beyond just Ancient Greece – peplos gowns were still being worn in the 13th century in the Baltic and I have certain opinions about Viking smokkr construction related to Read more

  • How to Make a T-Tunic

    A handy resource I developed for the College of Saint Ursula to help newbies out with making garb for the SCA Read more

  • Pet Peeve: Unnecessary Disturbing Images in Historic Clothing Resources

    Please be advised: the following contains discussion of violent scenes and deaths including executions in both a medieval and modern context. Out of respect for the reader, I have not included images aside from the heavily cropped cover image, which is a frequently used example of the practice I am discussing. How many times have Read more

  • Ten tips for researching Irish dress history

    Welcome or welcome back, dear reader. I am in the midst of madly preparing for ten days of medieval camping shenanigans, and so have limited time to committ, but am determined to continue my regular updates nonetheless. One of the things I am most frequently approached by other people is Irish dress history, often with Read more

  • Salty Literature Review: 16th Century Irish Dress

    Any person seeking to learn about the history of Irish dress will immediately be pushed in the direction of two books: any of the multiple versions of Old Irish and Highland Dress by Henry Foster McClintock, and Dress in Ireland by Mairead Dunlevy. These books were initially published in the 1940s and 1980s respectively, and Read more

  • This is not an SCA blog

    It’s almost a given fact that every crafty person participating in the SCA will have a blog of some form. With our modern tendency to create in isolation, we feel a desperate need to reach out and show what we have made, and what we do with the time we have. And so, there are Read more