Alison Kannon is an avid costumer and a rabid historical martial arts and fencing enthusiast. She has been studying and teaching Sixteenth Century European martial arts since 2001. She is an enthusiastic historical re-enactor and created Elizabethanmafia.com in order to share her research of the fashion, culture, and martial arts of Early Modern England.
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Category Archives: Sewing
Making a Decision on Some Shelved Projects
May of you will recall that in February I decided to shelve several projects until I could figure out what I wanted to do with them. Well, I finally came to some conclusions about at least two of them. eBooks … Continue reading
New Article
I spent last night working on an upcoming article for Foundations Revealed. It’s outside of my usual area of work so I’m finding the project challenging and quite a lot of fun. I did get my Venetians hemmed over the … Continue reading
Burgundy Venetians: Current Status
While I haven’t finished them yet I did want to go ahead and post updated pictures of my new venetians. I still need to hem the leg openings and I need to add the buttons and button holes but those … Continue reading
Costuming Fail
I have only managed to hem 8 inches on my pants since Friday. Bah! Finishing them for Coronation is not looking so good but I’m still going to try. I only need to finish hemming the leg openings and add … Continue reading
A Waist Band!
Last night I finished cartridge pleating my venetians onto the waist band. The original ones were gathered but I decided to try cartridge pleating in the hopes that it would help replicate the awesome puffiness seen in the De Ghyen … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 Project Plans, Elizabethan Fashion, Fencing, Project, Sewing
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New Venetians
Since I posted a tutorial on incorporating pockets into venetians and trunkhose yesterday I thought I would post a bit today about the pants the tutorial is based on. I had posted recently that the first project of my great … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 Project Plans, Elizabethan Fashion, Fencing, Pictures, Project, Sewing
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Adding a Pocket to Your Trunkhose or Ventians
One of the things that has always attracted me to late 16th Century menswear is their pockets. There are several examples of trunkhose and a pair of venetians depicted in Arnold’s Patterns of Fashion that include pockets. Until recently though … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 Project Plans, Elizabethan Fashion, Fencing, Project, Rapier Armour, Sewing, Tutorial
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Of Mending and Many Things
Life has been insanely busy this past week so sadly I’ve had very little time to blog. This week looks to be at least a busy (if not more so) but things are looking up on the other side of … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to Me
Yesterday was my birthday and it was quite frankly one of the best birthdays ever. My hubby took me out to dinner with friends and we had not one but two sushi boats! Well, to be honest we had a … Continue reading
Cleaning Out My Garb Closet
Do you ever stand in front of your closet looking for something to wear on to realize that you absolutely hate 90% of it? That’s the realization I came to over the past couple of weeks while I was getting … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 Project Plans, Project, Sewing, The Jacket Project, The Wardrobe Project
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