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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Project: Green Linen GFG
Share I’ve probably mentioned it here before but for the past year and a half at least I’ve had an unfinished green linen gothic fitted gown sitting on my shelf waiting to be picked back up. It was all cut … Continue reading
Posted in Embroidery, Fighting, Sewing, Website
Tagged 2010 Project Plans, Dueling, Embroidery, Fencing, Green Linen GFG, HMA, Project, Sewing, The Jacket Project, Vincentio Saviolo, Website
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Happy Anniversary, Elizabethan Mafia!
Share On this week in 2005 elizabethanmafia.com was officially registered and I began the long process of creating what would become Elizabethan Mafia. There were some bugs to be fixed, road blocks to jump around, and a learning curve to … Continue reading
University Recap
Share I had a fabulous time at June University this past weekend. I got to spend some time fighting C&T pickups with Giacomo, enjoyed Isobel, Robert, and Lisette’s furniture class, and my dueling class went rather well. It was really … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fighting, Website
Tagged Cut & Thrust, Dueling, Events, Fencing, Fighting, HMA
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Housekeeping & Feedback
Share I’ve been doing a lot of housekeeping tasks for the blog this week. In addition to updating my version of wordpress I’ve also gone through and updated my plugin versions, gotten rid of some plugins that just weren’t working … Continue reading
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Establishing a Schedule
Share As many of you know issues with my webhost in June precipitated me having to move my site to a new host and rebuild it. Part of rebuilding it was reestablishing and rebuilding this blog. I had thought I … Continue reading
Website Updates
Share Yesterday I spent sometime updating my website: Reorganizing: One of the big things that I did was reorganize the menu at the top of the page. I’ve removed the Weekly Inspiration feature. It wasn’t really working with the site … Continue reading
New Additions
Share There hasn’t been alot to add this week. I’ve been working on prep for Mousehole so I haven’t had as much time to write about my projects or martial arts. I expect that will get back to normal though … Continue reading
New Articles Available
Share My new Swetnam article, The Fight of Joseph Swetnam with Rapier and Dagger: Thrusts and Passages, and my thankfully rediscovered revision of The Footwork of Di Grassi are both now available on my website.
What once was lost….
Share I didn’t loose much this summer when issues with my old host caused me to very quickly have to move my site to a new host. I lost a couple of blog posts I was rather fond of but … Continue reading
Weekend Recap: New Gallery Edition
Share I’m exceptionally pleased with myself. I’ve replaced my old Gallery 2 gallery with a JoomGallery that is incorporated into my site and looks so much nicer than the old one. Those of you who are actually good with computers … Continue reading
