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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Stockings Tutorial Update and Upcoming Ebook Series
For those of you who are not on Facebook (or who may have missed my post yesterday) last night I finished my 16th and early 17th Century stockings tutorial reformat. My plan is to have it available on my site … Continue reading
Articles and Demos
This weekend was spent working on my new article for Foundations as well as pitching in to help with House Red Wolf’s (the NCSU SCA student group) recruitment demo on Sunday.
Posted in Fighting, Sewing, Tutorials, Weekend Plans
Tagged Elizabethan Fashion, Fencing, Foundations Revealed, Project, Resources, Tutorial, Weekend
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InterLibrary Loan
For the first time since high school I have a county library card.
5 Patterns from Reconstructing History that I Absolutely Love
Looking for a pattern for a new project? Here is a list of 5 patterns from Reconstructing History that I totally love: The Geoffrey Nightcap Embroidery Pattern: Created by Laura of Extreme Costuming this nightcap pattern is simple and elegant. … Continue reading
Posted in Embroidery, Fashion, Resources
Tagged Elizabethan Fashion, Embroidery, Resources, Sewing
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Titles I Plan to Bring to the Library at Atlantia’s June University
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 and … Continue reading
The Perdita Manuscripts Project
I found a very interesting new resource today that I wanted to share with all of you: the Perdita Manuscripts Project. This is a project dedicated to digitizing texts written by early modern women that are not widely known because they may … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Resources
Tagged Early Modern Women, Extant Manuscripts, Resources
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