making your own medieval dress pins

Dress pins are a must have for the person wearing veils and wimples and so. But they are surprisingly expensive for what they are. I do understand why but still, I am a student and sometimes it is...

open hood with card / tablet woven edge

Last year I wanted to make a open hood with the silly hook on to top, but when I did a toille it looked really off and I decided to make a buttoned hood with liripipe in stead. But at last summers...

Lengberg Castle brassiere

From the first time I saw the Lengberg Castle underwear I knew that I would want to make something similar. Having big breasts complicates things, I would prefer not to wear modern bras with my...

leather costrel

Last medieval week I ran around with a plastic bottle in my bag, since drinking water is important but plastic bottles are not all that fun I decided to make a leather bottle in stead. Looking...

Facebook

I know that I am not all that good with updating here, especially not with things like in progress photos. But I thought that with this new year I would try to share some of my process with you. I...

Patternmaking for the kampfrau – wulsthaube

Happy new year! I start my new year with a tutorial on how I made my wulsthaube. My wulsthaube is in one piece, I love that it is so simple to put on, I can even do it without a mirror (or running...

frilled veil

When I saw Elina at Neulakko post about her new frilled veil, and that my veil sparked the idea for it I realized that I have not yet shown mine in close up. It is made out of long strips of linen...

post man hat

I just wanted to do a quick share. This spring I went to a party with the theme “Peoples republic of Dals Långed”, so I thought that I would do some kind of army clothing inspired by Mao. At that...

My green dress

I realized that I have not really shown you my green dress, except for in a few pictures. It is made out of a thinner tabby weave green wool from medeltidsmode.se and is completely hand sewn with...

Medieval week 2012

So it have been a few weeks now since I came back from the medieval week in Visby and I have had time to land again. The week was really awesome! It is my second year going to Visby and this year...

Medieval week 2012

So now I’, off to Visby for medieval week. Perhaps Ill see you the.I will be sporting last years green wool moy boy dress, but with some new details.This year I have a proper veil as well.And of...

Pinterest

Just wanted to say, that even if it is quite as the grave here, I pin like a mad man over at pinterest. http://pinterest.com/katafalk If you want to see what inspires me.

Patternmaking for the kampfrau – hemd / chemise

So I have spoken about my new kampfrau chemise/shirt/blouse, and I have also documented the whole process of making it so that I can show you how it is made. This hemd goes under the name of “silly...

How I wear my steuchlein

I thought that I would show you how I prefer to wear my steuchlein. I start with putting my wulsthaube on. Then I throw on the steuchlein Oops a bit of. It is nice to have that star so that I know...

pattern making for the kampfrau – steuchlein

As I am in the progress of making a new shirt to my kampfrau, I also needed a new steuchlein to wear over my wulsthaube since my old one is in raw silk just as my old shirt. And here is how I make...

kampfrau bag

Summer season = kampfrau and a kampfrau need a bag. Looking at a lot of pictures I saw a model that seemed to be used by both males and females and also used in a very varied social status. And as...

patternmaking for the kampfrau – gollar

so it was ages ago that I made a tutorial for something and I had this one kind of laying around (in the paper version) so I thought that I should make it into a pretty Illustrator picture and...

building a peacock finished

my friend the Bellasaurious just had to sneak into a picture to ;)

building a peacock – the last things

building a peacock – feathers

building a peacock – bodice

building a peacock

etsy

Just wanted to give you all a shout that I have reopened my etsy shop again http://learningtofly.etsy.com

princess of the forest

So I am at a new school now, studying tailoring in Uddevalla, direction woman. I wanted to share some pictures I took last weekend of my friend Bella in my raw hide crown and a lace dress I made.

medeltidsveckan 2011

Promise to say Hi! to me at medeltidsveckan if you see me.

Wulsthaube

Every one needs silly things to wear on your head, so to my kampfrau outfit I wanted a wulsthaube. It was super simple to do, I used these instructions but the triangular part I cut on the bias and...

The striped kampfrau

This year is the first year in my life to go to Medeltidsveckan (medieval week) on Gotland and since I have NO medieval clothing what so ever this spring have been very much about making a few...

the bone dress, or the Mucha/Gaudi dress

In school we had a project where we should find an architect/building to take our inspiration from. I have had a picture of Casa Batlló by Antoni Gaudí in my inspiration folder for ages so I choose...

bära bäras

not 100% sure how to translate the title of the project, “bära” is Swedish for carry, but also to wear, and “bäras” is to be carried, oh well we’ll just leave it at that I think. This is the big...

life

Hello, long time no see, and what other thing can I say then it is living that have pulled me away from the computer screen. The good company of lovely people that have been my everyday life now....