I have made a lot of progress on the Skjold harbour style Viking hood. I am making it from a brown wool outer and dark indigo blue linen lining, and hand stitching it using linen threads pulled from the selvage of the lining fabric. The stitches I am using are taken from the Viborg shirt,
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Tonight I started work on a Viking hood in the style of the Skjold harbour Viking hood find. Free Viking hood pattern.
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My apron dress is based on the large apron dress fragments found in Haithabu harbor (Hedeby), made in linen, with decorative seam embroidery and darts.
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Teaser photo and some detailed images of the viking garb I have been working on. Hand stitched and embroidered serk, apron dress, and apron.
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Apparently I had not gotten around to posting all the WIP images from July to this blog. My apologies for that. I have not actually worked on the hybrid style fully corded corset in nearly two months, but here are a couple more images of the progress I did make at that time. Project: Fully Corded Hybrid
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The last few days I have been working on my hybrid style fully corded corset. The first step is to fully cord all the panels and gores. The strength layer is coutil, with thin cotton rope for cording, and black linen for the cover material. I couldn’t find yellow buttonhole thread, so I am using
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In more exciting news, for the first time in a little over three years I am working on a corset. It is a bastard hybrid of stays with stomacher, and a Victorian corset. It will be fully corded to imitate the look of fully boned stays, and I am planning for it to machine washable.
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This is the last WIP update on the needle book. As of the writing of this post it is actually finished, and I hope to get the final photos up in the next couple days. Each side of the needle book is embroidered with a great wyrm, the first in green and outlined in burgundy, and
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Further progress on the hand embroidered needle book, which will be another addition to my period sewing kit to take with me to events.
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My linen open hood is nearly finished. It is hand sewn and embroidered with linen thread in an acanthus design.
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