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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Of Bluing, Tent Cleaning, and Kirtles
Share I spent most of this past weekend working on projects for various upcoming events. My poor husband was on call all weekend which meant changing the planned projects around a bit but in the end I got quite a … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fighting, Sewing, Weekend Plans
Tagged 2010 Project Plans, Armour Repair, Events, Fencing, Project, Sewing, Weekend
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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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Titles I Plan to Bring to the Library at Atlantia’s June University
Share A friend of mine is helping to put together a library for June University similar to the one that was put together to KASF last March. Last week I told her I would be happy to bring some books … Continue reading
Holiday Faire 2009 Observations
Share I’m behind on my writing (and my pictures). Ideally I’d like to be a week ahead but I’m still playing catch up. So while I work on catching up (Ha!) I wanted to take some time to write about … Continue reading
Holiday Faire and Assessing My Armour for End of Season Repairs
Share This weekend sees us on our way to Holiday Faire in northern Atlantia. I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve wanted to attend this event for the past 3 years or so but something has always come up to … Continue reading
Mousehole 2009
Share I am now officially back from Mousehole. To be honest I got back home Sunday afternoon but after an hour and a half nap Sunday and a full night’s sleep Sunday night I still couldn’t coherently string enough sentences … Continue reading
Musings on the fighting at War of the Wings 2009
Share This past weekend I drove to Elkin, NC with Wistric and Caelia for War of the Wings. My previous experiences with WoW have been mixed and I had not originally planned to go until probably early September. But after … Continue reading
Musings on my fighting at Midnight at the Oasis
Share Ahh. The promised fighting post for Midnight at the Oasis. To be quite honest I probably should have written it Sunday. Everything is fresher in you mind closer to the day of the event. But I spent some time … Continue reading
Pictures: Midnight at the Oasis 2009 and my jacket!
Share This past weekend was Midnight at the Oasis and I had a great time. I will be posting thoughts on my fighting later today or tomorrow but until then I have pictures from the event (mostly of court) as … Continue reading
Posted in Embroidery, Events, Pictures
Tagged Embroidery, Events, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project
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