I’ve been at this living history thingy for 20 years, more or less. Since the beginning I’ve been interested in the latter part of the 14thC and the number one bad guy king, Albrecht von Mecklenburg. Swedish television even made a children’s show about the middle ages, and of course the baddest of the bad…
It’s been a long time since I wrote here. But now it’s time again.I have just finished such a garment that I really hated in the past. I don’t know the medieval name in English, but the Swedish medieval word is särk and/or särker. I’m talking about a linen shift. It’s slow, repetitive work and…
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…
I sometimes portrait the wife of a high ranking nobleman in Sweden. In the late 14th century the movers and shakers of their time did have access to fancy fabrics of high quality, even silks, so I thought it would have been accessible for a noblewoman, even in an outpost of Sweden. I bought a silk…
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