russian collars
The evolution of my russian collars.
Project Snow Maiden
Historical Interpretation of Ded Moroz (Father Frost) and Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) in the style of XIII century Kievan Rus Knyaz and Knyazhna Garments.
Meatless 16th Century European Dishes
A trio of 16th cent European vegetarian dishes, not just for Lenten days, featuring parsnips, eggplants, and leeks.
Colored Glass & Silver Stain
This set of projects are my exploration into three forms of colored glass – painted glass, colored glass, and silver stained glass.
Something something Viking stamped decorations something something multiple uses
I’m going to attempt to demonstrate the ubiquity of stamped decorative elements in Viking jewelry, leatherwork, clothing accessories, and whatever else I find.
Dost Thou Like My Bonnet?: A set of Tudor flat caps.
A set of two Tudor flat caps, or “bonnets”, inspired by extant caps detailed in “Patterns of Fashion 3: the cut and construction of clothes for men and women c1560-1620” by Janet Arnold.
Japanese sedge hat (ichimegasa)
An all-weather hat made of sewn sedge leaves worn by townswomen in Muromachi-period Japan (1336-1573).
An Acrostic Royal Family in Heroic Lines
These works are acrostics, meaning that the first letter of each line can be read vertically to reveal a message, in this case the subject of the poem! Each is in “Heroic Couplets,” a form of accentual-syllabic prosody composed of rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (what a mouthful!).