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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Tag Archives: Flanders Gown
Mutinous Thoughts
Share Last night while doing some work on my embroidered jacket I had the mutinous thought that I could just stop with the sleeves. They really would look lovely with my Flanders Gown. I would be done so much sooner! … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 Goals, 2010 Project Plans, Elizabethan Fashion, Embroidery, Flanders Gown, Project, Sewing, The Jacket Project
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Why Do I Feel Like I’m Not Accomplishing Anything?
Share I’m not quite sure what the issue is but lately I’ve found that I’ve been feeling very distracted with regards to my various projects and I haven’t been feeling like I’m really getting a lot done. Oddly I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Embroidery, Fashion, Fighting, Sewing, Tutorials
Tagged 2010 Goals, 2010 Project Plans, Embroidery, Etsy Shop, Fencing, Fighting, Flanders Gown, Forehead Cloth, Foundations Revealed, George Silver, HMA, Joseph Swetnam, Project, Sewing, Swetnam, The Jacket Project, Tutorial, Vincentio Saviolo, Wool Hosen
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A Flander’s Gown: Kirtle Pictures
Share Last week I finally got off my bum and finished hemming my kirtle and I thought I should post some pictures. I’m still debating what color I want to use for my guard but otherwise it’s finished! Pictures are … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabethan Fashion, Flanders Gown, Pictures, Project, Sewing
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Frustration
Share I spent all weekend working on my Flanders gown. I completely finished pad stitching all the fur to the linen lining. I cut out the new interlining. I cartridge pleated the kirtle skirt to the bodice. In other words … Continue reading
A Flanders Gown: Completing the Kirtle Interlining
Share Sunday morning I sat down to work on kirtle bodice. Many thanks to all of you for weighing on whether to bone them or make a separate pair of bodies. In the end though I did decide to bone … Continue reading
A Flander’s Gown: The First Conumdrum
Share So today I find myself stuck in my first flanders gown conundrum. I want to have the gown done for Ymir which is Valentines weekend and about 5 and half weeks away. That doesn’t leave a lot of time but it’s … Continue reading
A Flanders Gown
Share After several days of trying to decided which sewing project I wanted to start off my new year with I have finally decided to start with the flanders gown I have been planning. As I have said in earlier posts, … Continue reading
November Jacket Update and Future Project Plans
Share I’m officially back from one of the most lovely holidays I have had in a very long time. We spent our Thanksgiving up at the family farm in Como, NC. Don’t worry, I don’t really expect anyone else to … Continue reading
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Tagged Embroidery, Flanders Gown, PerCoFiMo, Project, Sewing, The Jacket Project
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New Projects: Training Manuals and a Flanders Gown
Share When I was baroness I had several projects I really wanted to pursue but I put on the back burner due to time constraints. Among there projects were training manuals for Silver and Swetnam’s systems of defense. Now I … Continue reading
Posted in Fighting, Sewing
Tagged Embroidery, Fighting, Flanders Gown, George Silver, HMA, Joseph Swetnam, Project, Sewing, The Jacket Project
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