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http://evashistoricalcostumes.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-venetian-gown-from-middle-of-16th.html

I made this to wear to the Barony of Gotvik's investiture (SCA) in March, when my friends Alfhild and Mattis stepped up as baroness and baron. She is mostly doing 16th century, and I wanted to match.

Due to unforseen circumstances I ended up working in the kitchen instead, so I never got to wear it.

And then things happened, and Double Wars, and more things, so I never took any photos of it.

But today hubby and I went out to the yard outside our block of flats and snapped some.

My inspiration was images like this from the middle of the 16th century Venice.

There may even be a page about it later, when I am out of the madness of grading that always comes with the end of the semester.

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And while I am finishing up the last bits before heading into lovely laziness and sunshine and trying to match the cat in being utterly relaxed, here's a song for you:

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Jeg vasker mine hender i uskyld, og vil ferdes om ditt alter, Herre. Salmenes bok 26.6 Lavāre er latin for å vaske seg, og håndvask var i middelalderen en viktig seremoni, særlig knytta til mat og bønn. Vi har en rekke gjenstander knytta til handlingen, i første rekke en form for kar, en servant og […]

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Well, not much to tell about here today - there was stuff to be done on the computer, so there wasn't even sneaking away for a good bit to do some more sprang. (Which is still growing too quickly, by the way, so I'll only need about half the original row count for the original length. Grrr.) The Little Cat had a vet checkup today to get blood drawn, and she was understandably not very amused. The vet was, though, when I told him that the Little Cat's newest medication seems to be the tastiest thing ever available to a cat, and goes absolutely bonkers for it. (Apparently that's not normal.) Otherwise, texts, reading, phone, writing, emails, stuff. And because you deserve something not as unexciting as hearing about this, here's a link for you to a new kind of sock heel that can be knit in t...

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So in case I have gotten you curious about sprang, but you have never really heard about it... let me introduce you to Carol James, who has done an insane amount of sprang in all imaginable shapes, sizes, and colours, and who does a very nice job of explaining holes, patterns, and her notation system (which is also how the Lengberg tree of life pattern is published):

https://www.pallia.net/blog/more-sprang-stuff

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lots of swirly fleecy bits

also, german coucnted wrok for the ahrd of counting at the quaker tapestry museum in a week or so
https://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/events/german-brick-stitch-workshop/

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I spent a part of the long weekend (thanks to Pentecost) taking extra naps (thanks to a cold I managed to catch). As Murphy wills it, now that the weekend is over, I'm back to health again, and of course also back to work. (Not really complaining here, though. Even though I could have done very well without the cold, at least the timing was only mildly annoying, slowing down the weekend, as opposed to horrendous, as in "could have hit me while abroad and needing all my brain and energy".) Plus side of having some extra time to just sit and do stuff: I managed to do a little bit of sprang. The story behind it is that I might need to make a piece of sprang for a museum project, and that means I have to do at least a rough calculation on how much it will be, and that is, obviously, hard to do...

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I'm back from the workshop with colleagues, where - for the first time ever - I got the pleasure of having a moderated discussion with some teambuilding elements thrown in. It was a fantastic experience, and I did learn a lot about the meta elements of how a group forms and what happens. We were, for instance, introduced to the stages of teambuilding after Tuckman's Theory. I had never heard of this at any point before, but it does sound familiar, and I found it immensely helpful to know that there will inevitably be some discordancies before everyone has found their place and the group can start to really perform. Wikipedia has, of course, an article about the four stages of the original model, and also some additions and further developments, so if you are curious now, you can read...

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world of interiors have very kindly featured my hildegard kit in the July Issue of World of Interiors, aparently it’s “cheaper than sniping off a corner of the Bayeux Tapestry”
https://www.opusanglicanumembroidery.com/product/hildegard/115

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I had originally intended just a flash of gold down the middle of each scale, but in the end I used gold and silver, as well as outlining each scale – sometimes over the top is what you need!

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cheeky bit of trellis couching

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http://evashistoricalcostumes.blogspot.com/2025/06/learning-to-do-sprang.html

Linnea Skog, or Meisterin Marlein Eberlin, as she is known in the SCA taught me how to make a sprang ribbon at Double Wars (SCA event in the south of Sweden) last week.

Linnea, of course, is the Goddess of sprang. Her blog is over here.

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I wore my wool tunica recta for the first time at an event this week.

It is made from wool, and I love how it looks tied at the waist, and under the bust .

I also tried making a sort of Roman hairdo for the first time. I had only vague memories of images and instructions, and winged it, but I like the result .

Two braids are pinned in front, at the hairline. The rest of the hair is wound with a wool ribbon and wrapped around the head, and the ribbon is wrapped a few more times before being tied. Then I added a wool hairnet .

Taking a walk to the lake through the beech woods .

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