
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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The Great Migration is Complete!
In October I decided to take the plunge and begin migrating everything on my site over to WordPress. Maintaining what was effectively two sites on the same topic was taking too much time and since most of my updates were … Continue reading
The Great Migration
I’ve finally decided to take the plunge and move my entire site over to WordPress. I started it last week and I’m only able to work on it a little bit at a time but I am really looking forward … Continue reading
New Tutorial and Promised Links
My Recreating Elizabethan Bodies tutorial is now available in the tutorial section of my website. I got it uploaded over the weekend. Grettir has also made the class notes for is I.33-Liechtenauer Symposium available online. You can download them here. … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fashion, Tutorials
Tagged Elizabethan Fashion, Events, Foundations Revealed, Project, Tutorial, Website
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Happy Birthday to Me
Yesterday was my birthday and it was quite frankly one of the best birthdays ever. My hubby took me out to dinner with friends and we had not one but two sushi boats! Well, to be honest we had a … Continue reading
A Saucy Ymir Countdown
I’m in the middle of preparations for Ymir so things have been a little quiet here. Currently the weather for this weekend is supposed to be amazing so lets hope that the forecast holds. I’ve done a little reorganizing on … Continue reading
Pictures on the Way
I did get pictures of my Flanders gown. They are still currently on the camera with my KASF pictures because I’ve been totally lazy about downloading them but I should have them up before the end of the weekend. In … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Sewing, Website
Tagged 2011 Project Plans, Embroidery, Project, Sewing, The Jacket Project, Website
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Follow Up to “Website Ponderings”
I’m still pondering all four options but for the time being I think I’m just going to leave things as they are. This gives me more time and doesn’t rock the boat too much so to speak. So for … Continue reading
Flanders Gown To-Do’s and Website Ponderings
Sorry there was not a practice update this week. I was very busy with work on Thursday and unable to make it out. Hopefully this week will be easier and I will be able to make it out. I’ve really … Continue reading
Feelings of Community in Blogging: Thoughts on Livejournal
I miss Livejournal. I know it’s still there. I still read my friends’ posts. But it’s so much quieter there now than it used to be that it’s really just not the same anymore and I haven’t been able to … Continue reading
Project: Green Linen GFG
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 out, … 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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