Hi again! I’ve gotten myself involved in organizing an event called Life at Spøttrup court. It’s a living castle event in Denmark in August 2020. The setting is as follows: 1397 the Lord of the castle has invited a foreign dignitary to cooperate regarding the pirate threat in the Baltic sea. The two lords and…
I’ve gotten myself some new war gear. Some years ago, I got myself a pair of new gauntlets. However, I never got them to fit properly, despite many different tries; I tried to make new inner gloves, I tried to change their form with a vise, I tried to bear the pain when wearing them…
This is the first post at In deme Jare Cristi for almost 650 years (or two years – it’s almost the same). A lot has happened since then. Maria has moved on to Historic Textiles, where she indulges in textile nerdery galore, along with the equally talented Amica. If your main reason for following this…
Hi peeps! I sometimes write for my company blog (www.albrechts.se) and today I posted a monster text about the Hanseatic League in Stockholm. Read it here.
In 2010 I dyed some yarn for Thomas, It was suppose to become a jacket. I warped it in 2012 and did actually weave it the same year. The plan was always to make a mi parti jacket, as you can read here. After that the fabric have been lying in a box waiting for Thomas…
Some days ago, WordPress let us know that it was six years since we started In deme Jare Cristi. Me and Maria agreed on writing a kind of celebratory post together, and as I happen to have time on my hands today, I guess I’ll be the first blogger out. As I recall it, In…
A (very) long time ago, I came across the picture to the left. At the time I thought it pretty strange as I thought it resembled of one of those French berets. You know which ones I mean. The ones with a little teet in the middle that all baguette Frenchies wear, along with that striped…
Jan Ranekes Europas medeltidsvapen kanske inte är lika känt som hans verk Svenska Medeltidsvapen, men oavsett vilket så har nu Svenska Heraldiska Föreningen gjort runt två tredjedelar av härligheten tillgängliga online! Ta en titt på Projekt Raneke redan nu! Vi skåningar kan djupdyka i skånska vapen genom att gå in under rubrikerna Danmark 1, Danmark 2 och Danmark…
Don’t miss out on this fab textile nerd dictionary historical textiles English within the text- Translated by Anna Lindemark, Lindemark Text Nordisk textilteknisk terminologi – Förindustriell vävnadsproduktion 1967 gav Elisabeth Strömberg, Agnes Geijer, Margrethe Hald och Marta Hoffman ut boken ”Nordisk textilteknisk terminologi- Förindustriell vävnadsproduktion”. Boken utgörs av en samling definitioner på svenska och synonymer…
Hi kids! It’s now time for another little thing on medieval beds. This time I will take a look at how people slept when on the road. As a starting point, I will look at so called ”Heerbedde” – an ”Army bed”, as it gives us some impression of what people on campaign used for…
