Medieval Life Made Modern

A craft and research diary for the Creative Anachronist

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  • A white woman with her back to the camera. Her brown hair is gathered into a light green silk hairnet. At the centre of the hairnet is a small embroidered circle of an orange blossom on a dark blue background.
  • Close-up on a pair of hands held together in prayer, with a string of black and gold prayer beads between the palms.
  • A person in a green and red shot silk Burgundian doublet with their hands on their hips. They are also wearing a black and red frame purse, black hose, and have a narrow black piece of fabric draped over their shoulder and tucked into their belt.
  • A person in a mustard yellow medieval hood with a long liripipe and a dark red woollen tunic, facing away from the camera in a woodland setting.
  • A pale androgynous person in a poofy linen shirt and black medieval hose, with their back to the camera.
  • Two densely pleated white linen sleeve cuffs laid flat against a red background with a sprig of ivy. The pleatwork is embroidered in white silk with a decorative diamond motif.
  • A red 16th century style doublet on a grey mannequin. The doublet has a high collar lined in light blue linen, is closed at the front with round pewter buttons, and has black decorative passementarie at the seams and edges.
  • An androgynous white person in a linen veil and wimple, looking down, hand held curled against their chest.
  • A padded white peascod fencing doublet with decorative embroidery. The person wearing it is holding a rapier against the centre of their chest, hands lightly clasped around the pommel.
  • The back of a deep red doublet with a tall standing collar and poofy shoulder bolsters.
  • A dark red doublet with a high standing collar and a cutaway v-front on a grey dress form. There are rows of basting stitches down the front and around the armholes in white thread.
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