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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Project: Green Linen GFG
Share 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 … 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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Happy Anniversary, Elizabethan Mafia!
Share On this week in 2005 elizabethanmafia.com was officially registered and I began the long process of creating what would become Elizabethan Mafia. There were some bugs to be fixed, road blocks to jump around, and a learning curve to … Continue reading
What I’ve Been Working On And Why I’ve Been So Quiet Lately….
Share I know that I have been quieter than usual this month. I’ve been working on a rather large project which has nothing to do with my Flanders Gown. I have decided to take the plunge and open an Etsy … Continue reading
Wow!
Share 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Embroidery
Tagged Embroidery, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project, Website
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Establishing a Schedule
Share As many of you know issues with my webhost in June precipitated me having to move my site to a new host and rebuild it. Part of rebuilding it was reestablishing and rebuilding this blog. I had thought I … Continue reading
Website Updates
Share Yesterday I spent sometime updating my website: Reorganizing: One of the big things that I did was reorganize the menu at the top of the page. I’ve removed the Weekly Inspiration feature. It wasn’t really working with the site … Continue reading
New Additions
Share There hasn’t been alot to add this week. I’ve been working on prep for Mousehole so I haven’t had as much time to write about my projects or martial arts. I expect that will get back to normal though … Continue reading
What once was lost….
Share I didn’t loose much this summer when issues with my old host caused me to very quickly have to move my site to a new host. I lost a couple of blog posts I was rather fond of but … Continue reading
Pictures, Articles, and Return Features! Oh My!
Share 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Forehead Cloth, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project, Website
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Weekend Recap: New Gallery Edition
Share 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 … Continue reading
