Teffania's Stuff

Teffania's medieval dress and other crafts diary. Wherein I discuss 12th C clothing, 12th C daily objects, fibrearts especially narrowwares, renaisance dance, medieval and renaisance cooking, the odd research project (eg seal tags) and anything else medeival I feel like. Eventually most research projects wind their way back to either my love of the 12th C and/or narrowwares, although sometime the route is very ineresting..

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Wallets

There is a pretty spiffy kind of bag called a market wallet or simply wallet and it's quite useful. It's sort of like a saddlebag, e...

Thursday, 3 December 2015

More lamps in manuscripts

[This post belatedly released from the blog post draft archive] This is a continuation of this post , a survey of lamps, with more entries...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Tart of Prunes

[Annother post from the draft archive. I was waiting to add a picture, but I've admitted defeat and will post this instead for you to en...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

The world's simplest veil: headrails

Headrails The simplest veil I know of is the headrail. Firstly it is simple to construct because it is quite simply a long rectangular pie...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Even more tent links - with a focus on the extant

After all those links to tent images , we might think that was all the info we had on construction of medeival and renaisance tents, but act...

Friday, 22 February 2013

tent links redux

I've talked about tents before , but it's been so long that half the links are broken! If you are looking for pictures of period t...

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Valentines Day Special: Love tokens

Today I present themed links for valentines' day. In fact the theme is love, and gifts of love. I'll look at extant gifts of love, p...

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Blue wool cote II: Revenge of the fabric

I've written about the plans I had for constructing my blue wool cote earlier. And just as I had written, I constructed the garment. ...

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

More fingerloop concepts

Having established what reversed and unreversed are in fingerloop braiding, there is some more complex terminology and concepts that I'...

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Reversed and unreversed in fingerloop braiding - even more complicated than it seems

If you've learnt about fingerloop braiding, probably one of the first things you learnt was the difference between reversed and unrever...

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