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The Crown tourney bug, and new projects
Apr. 18th, 2012 05:28 pm...I got it, resulting in 10 days of coughing right through Easter, one appearance only at work in the week following Easter, and a mighty unwillingness to leave the sofa for the weekends. I'm still regaining my stamina, and haven't been running in weeks.
I missed the Easter BBQ, and regrettably was in no real shape last week to welcome my mum, visiting from Canadia. The two of us formed sofa bookends, her with jetlag and me with the lurgy. I felt like I was in a fog.
Mum has now moved Ooop North to visit my dad's family, and we'll be joining her this weekend.
In other news: I'm going to Coronation - having witnessed the joyful tourney, I'm looking forward to seeing Paul and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aryanhwy crowned.
I haven't been to Finland in some time, and the clever artistic Finns who I met at Double Wars were a pleasure to spend time with. I'd been considering attending Cudgel wars, but was talked round to Coronation instead, as a longish, early-summer event with saunas (sigh!).
Robert will hold the fort at home, and plot clever things with pewter.
Any excuse for a new gown!
And a new gown is on: I've been reading the new Tudor Tailor book The Queen's Servants, and am delighted to find that it bridges a real gap in the clothier's record - how did people get from the deep-V 'Burgundian' styles of gown of the 15th c to the very square-necked, structured and heavily detailed Tudor look of the mid-16th c? The wars of the roses end...and it's like there's a fashion-radio-silence til Anne Bolyn rolls along.
It's not a 'flash' period, at least in English terms - but it's a big chunk of clothing time that is largely left blank by most clothiers - either lack of examples, lack of images, perhaps lack of bling, shortage of strong bold well-known personalities to hang the 'look' on - not certain.
Anyway: this book has lots to chew on, drawing on what pictorial sources exist, plus incredibly careful reading of the account books, to figure out - what would you make with X yards of velvet and Y yards of camlet? and coming up with plausible solutions that fit the available information.
My brain is churning with ideas of how to work with the fitted 14th/15th c gowns I already wear, and use them as a base for the early 16th c shape, which requires a lot less rigid fitting than the mid-late 16th c shape.
Best of all, I get a new way to wear a veil - over a hat.
I've worn veils, wimples and turbans for years, occasionally even under hoods, and now, at last, the style requires that you made a velvet hat shaped like a Hershey's Kiss, and drape and pin a veil on top of it. What could be cooler?
(...why, no, I don't get out much these days...why do you ask?)
With a few weeks til this, though, I'm mostly spending time recuperating, and planning and puttering at home.
I missed the Easter BBQ, and regrettably was in no real shape last week to welcome my mum, visiting from Canadia. The two of us formed sofa bookends, her with jetlag and me with the lurgy. I felt like I was in a fog.
Mum has now moved Ooop North to visit my dad's family, and we'll be joining her this weekend.
In other news: I'm going to Coronation - having witnessed the joyful tourney, I'm looking forward to seeing Paul and
aryanhwy crowned.I haven't been to Finland in some time, and the clever artistic Finns who I met at Double Wars were a pleasure to spend time with. I'd been considering attending Cudgel wars, but was talked round to Coronation instead, as a longish, early-summer event with saunas (sigh!).
Robert will hold the fort at home, and plot clever things with pewter.
Any excuse for a new gown!
And a new gown is on: I've been reading the new Tudor Tailor book The Queen's Servants, and am delighted to find that it bridges a real gap in the clothier's record - how did people get from the deep-V 'Burgundian' styles of gown of the 15th c to the very square-necked, structured and heavily detailed Tudor look of the mid-16th c? The wars of the roses end...and it's like there's a fashion-radio-silence til Anne Bolyn rolls along.
It's not a 'flash' period, at least in English terms - but it's a big chunk of clothing time that is largely left blank by most clothiers - either lack of examples, lack of images, perhaps lack of bling, shortage of strong bold well-known personalities to hang the 'look' on - not certain.
Anyway: this book has lots to chew on, drawing on what pictorial sources exist, plus incredibly careful reading of the account books, to figure out - what would you make with X yards of velvet and Y yards of camlet? and coming up with plausible solutions that fit the available information.
My brain is churning with ideas of how to work with the fitted 14th/15th c gowns I already wear, and use them as a base for the early 16th c shape, which requires a lot less rigid fitting than the mid-late 16th c shape.
Best of all, I get a new way to wear a veil - over a hat.
I've worn veils, wimples and turbans for years, occasionally even under hoods, and now, at last, the style requires that you made a velvet hat shaped like a Hershey's Kiss, and drape and pin a veil on top of it. What could be cooler?
(...why, no, I don't get out much these days...why do you ask?)
With a few weeks til this, though, I'm mostly spending time recuperating, and planning and puttering at home.
