Buttonholes and buttons

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-12-1
 So now the very old dress that never got finished, that I wrote about in my previous post, is hemmed and has got hand made buttonholes, and brass buttons.I made the armscyes bigger, which may have been a mistake - but I like being able to move my read more

November 2025 Craft Update

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2025-11-30
November 1st was a Saturday, and Aros sewing circle was happening. I brought along a second hand find and combined it to make a metal 16th century belt. It just needs a clasp so I can put it on. The rest of the time I spent looking at books, and read more

A Closer look at Skjoldehamn

Ava's Corner on 2025-11-28
I have figured something out. Well, no, not exactly. This has actually been on my mind for quite some time. I realised I had ‘abandoned’ the Skjoldehamn project for a while now and most of the time when I do that, it is because there is something read more

Meat Loaf of Lamb Lung and Calf Liver

Culina vetus on 2025-11-27
Following up yesterday’s recipes for lung in sauce, here are some more ways of turning lung into something more familiar and appreciated: Lung Kuechlen clxxx) Take the lung of a lamb, one or two, and chop it very small. Cut … Continue reading → read more

Lung and Liver in Sauce

Culina vetus on 2025-11-26
Early Modern German has no word for ‘offal’. Meat was meat, and when you had an animal to process, you used all the bits. That is what this recipe is about: A lung of lungs in sauce (eingemacht Lungel von … Continue reading → read more

Picking up where I left it - 23 years later

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-11-26
I think that I cut out, and started on this dress in 2002. But it might be as early as 1999 or 2000.It is sewn together, it is not hemmed, nor has it got lacing holes or button holes. I have taken it out from my wool cupboard several times the last read more

Some Actual Cauldrons

The Joy of Seax on 2025-11-25
You might remember I was having trouble finding archaeological evidence of cauldrons in early Medieval Ireland. I still am, but there are a couple of items that are giving me some hope, and honestly, even a few bits scattered through the period read more

A Rough Year

Ava's Corner on 2025-11-24
The year 1025 has been particularly rough. The village where Ava used to live was ransacked by religious fanatics around Lady Day, and she lost her beloved farm. It is for that reason that this blog has been so silent this past year. There was a read more

Gyllengrans event

Kareina's observations on 2025-11-23
 This could be considered an odd event for me to attend, given that I am never hungry in the evenings, and so don'teat the feast. The focus is food, and the only scheduled activities are workshops to make food to be served at the feast, which isn't read more

Lebkuchen recipes for winter

Culina vetus on 2025-11-23
Winter is here, I just added an upcycled cloak and a beautiful hat by Fáel the Nomad Hatter to my cold-weather wardrobe so I can do historic cooking in style (this is no paid advert, I just think she does … Continue reading → read more

All my fantasy costumes in one place

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-11-22
 While the focus of this blog is historical costuming, I have the last five years branched out into som fantasy comstuming. They all (or most) have their ground in some kind of historical clothing, so I think that they can be fitted into the read more

A mi-parti Italian gown from the first half of the 14th century

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-11-22
 Yes, indeed: another old gown gettign its page. Though not as old as my husband's outfit that I justposted about. That one was from 2004, this one is only from 2016.I wear it a lot, so it is strange that I don't have more photos of it. Or haven't read more

A man's outfit from the Codex Manesse

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-11-22
 I am on a roll! Three updates in as many days!Anyway, while looking through my categories of costumes in the left panel I realised how many of teh costuems shown that had the little notation "no page yet". And who had had this notation since I read more

The Cold Shoulder

Culina vetus on 2025-11-21
It has been one hell of a week. I’ve not been meaning to neglect my readership, but in any case, here is an apposite recipe from Balthasar Staindl: Sheep shoulder in a good sauce clxx) Take the shoulder of a … Continue reading → read more

A page for my Italian 1330s outfit striped in red and purple

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2025-11-20
 Or violet, if we're being period her, because it is not what they thought of as purple.Yes, today hubby and I went down to the basement of our block of flats to take some photos. I had intended to take them outside, but then the snow came read more

Names and the Reformation: What Can Data Science Tell Us?

Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources on 2025-11-18
Note: This summer, our editor-in-chief, Prof. Sara L. Uckelman, supervised the research projects of two Master of Data Science students who worked on DMNES data. In this blog post, Zhichong Liu reports on their work on changing naming practices in read more

 

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