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I attend Pennsic again this year. I spent a lot of time hanging out at the Tudor House in the market place with Master Simon and all the am...

Embroidery chart by Christian Egenolff. 1535. Germany. The Met Museum accession number:  33.69(4r) I really like the zig-zag and so...

Embroidery chart by Christian Egenolff. 1535. Germany. The Met Museum accession number:  33.69(4r) I'm not sure where I'd use...

Embroidery chart by Christian Egenolff. 1535. Germany. The Met Museum accession number: 33.69(4r) I love this embroidery chart. It lo...

Yesterday I published a picture of a hood I'd like to make as I'm quite taken with the ears. I've now found something equally g...

Lets all take a minute to admire this hat: I do like a hood with ears and this has some beautiful detail around the seams. I also love ...

1 - An example of images inserted into a table so Blogger will display them side by side. If you've been following my blog, yo...

Blue on White ceramics: the reciprocal influence of Chinese porcelain on European and Middle Eastern ceramics - China Other essays on th...

This is a simple image  reference   collection of the various hats featured in Landsknecht woodcuts.  No construction methods are proposed ...

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V by Hans Daucher 1522 ( The Met Museum accession no. 17.190.745 ) The previous pa...

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V by Hans Daucher 1522 ( The Met Museum accession no. 17.190.745 ) In the previou...

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V by Hans Daucher 1522 ( The Met Museum accession no. 17.190.745 ) The All...

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V by Hans Daucher 1522 ( The Met Museum accession no. 17.190.745 ) When delving ...

So, since I've been making hats recently, I decided Tyr needed one to complete his outfit. As many before me have discovered, accessori...

The start of my year was very much caught up in preparations for Rowany Festival. If you are familiar with my projects, you'll know I...

St Florian Hat 1 at Rowany Festival. Photo by Rache Vess. Late last year I made some hats for the upcoming B&B of St Florian. The h...

a) Triceratops trial. I thought I'd share my process for the geometric dinosaurs I've been playing with this last year. It'...

My new heraldic device is azure (blue), mistral contourney over an  mountain agent (white). I've been playing with the motifs because i...

I've been neck deep in block printing experiments this last 9 months so please tolerate the upcoming flood of enthusiastic posts. S...

An experiment with hand painting geometric dinosaurs. I'm not 100% happy with the feet but the idea is sound and I'd like to appl...