New year and new post

Well it is a new year and my New Year's resolution is to post every other week things that I am working on.  I have been very lacked in that respect.  So to catch up I will post some things that I have been doing.  I have attending demos and built a new bread oven as well.  Made more hats and currently working on some hood and clothing.  

Happy New Year Everyone!  

Updating.....

Through the next few days I will be updating my blog. Adding a couple more classes and changing a few others. I am also going to be adding more than just hats and headdresses. But other items of interest as well. Perhaps I should change the tag line a bit......hmmmm

New Articles added

I have added two new articles. The first, a copy of my article as it was published in Dec 2010 in the Known World Handbook, a publication by the Society Creative Anachronism. It was co-written by a friend of mine. The article was slit into two basic parts Women's hats, which she wrote and Men's Hats Through Period which I wrote. The next article is 14Th Century U-shaped Hairpin construction. Because I am not yet finished with my research on this hairpin, I am holding back on posting the entire paper. What I have offered is information on the Hairpin's construction and my recreation of this U-shaped Hairpin currently housed in the Museum of London in England.

Lately I have been researching and recreating a lot of hats! One of my recent headdress recreations was a type of horned hennin. I have also heard it referred to as a "cross-tree" hennin but I am still waiting to hear back as to why. There are a couple variations to this headdress but the one I model mine after is the one found on the effigy of Countess Beatrice in Arundel Church. She was the illegitimate daughter of King John I of Portugal and was married to Thomas Fitzalan, the 12th Earl of Arundel. She died in 1439.

This is my version of the headdress. This is a picture before the coral beads were added. I was very pleased how it turned out.

Once all the coral beads are sewn on, I will add another picture. It is very light weight and easy to wear. The main structure is millinery wire and buckram.