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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A Flanders Gown: Completing the Kirtle Interlining
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 the … Continue reading
Holiday Project
I’ve been pretty quiet for the past several days. Technically I’m still on holiday until the 4th and I’ve been spending my time working on one of my goals for 2009. I’ve been working on a new sewing project. It’s … Continue reading
Wow!
Wow! I knew the jacket pictures were popular but not quite how popular they really were. Elizabethan Mafia had more unique visitiors Tuesday coming to see the new jacket pictures than I have ever had before! You guys are awesome and I just wanted … Continue reading
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Pictures are up!
Current pictures of the Jacket project are finally up! Check em out! And for all you patience please enjoy bonus pictures of our Christmas tree.
October Blackwork Jacket Update and Assessing Projects for PerCoFiMo
With October ending and November beginning I wanted to take some time update everyone on my Jacket Project progress, asses the status of my PerCoFiMo projects, set some priorities*, and estimate the amount of time I think each will take … Continue reading
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Tagged Embroidery, PerCoFiMo, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project
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Pictures: Midnight at the Oasis 2009 and my jacket!
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 well … Continue reading
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Tagged Embroidery, Events, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project
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Pictures, Articles, and Return Features! Oh My!
Work continues. I worked on several projects this weekend. I didn’t get a whole lot accomplished on any one of them but over all I enjoyed myself immensely and got quite a bit done overall. Sadly I had to abandon … Continue reading
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Tagged Forehead Cloth, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project, Website
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Weekend Recap: New Gallery Edition
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 with … Continue reading