För nästan sex år sedan sydde jag den här kjorteln. Det känns som en evighet sedan. Växtfärgad med krapp och valnöt, och sedan handsydd. Någon dag ska det bli knappar hela vägen ned framtill, och ett krusdok att ha till.

ENG: Almost six years ago I sewed this kirtle. It feels like ages ago! It is plant dyed with madder and walenut and completely hand sewn. Some day I will make more buttons in the front, and a frilled veil to wear with it. Some day.

#medeltidskläder #moybog #kirtle #1300tal #middleages #reenactment #medievaldress #14thcentury #plantdye #handsewing

Foto: @karin.edlund
I've been working on updating my online sewing galleries and tutorials and after today, they'll all be uploaded! Adding logos to everything and rechecking the little manuscript images! You can see how many of the images needed replacing!

#sewing #kirtle #reenactment #reenactmentlife #medieval #medievaldress #medievalsewing #medievalwoman #rosaliesmedievalwoman #ladywriter #14thcentury #handstitched #medievalclothes #history #historicsewing #womeninhistory #medievalwomen #historicalcostume #circlet #cote #englishhistory #reenactment #reenacting #rosaliegilbert #livinghistory #middleages #reenactorlife #barbette

#February 6, 1564
#OTD Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, English Elizabethan #Poet & "Writer, is born.

He died young at 29 - from a stabbing in a bar fight.

His #Poem, "A Bed of Roses," was published posthumously in 1599.

"Come live with me & be my #Love,
& we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, & fields,
#Woods or steepy mountain yields.

& I will make thee beds of #Roses
& a thousand fragrant #Posies,
A cap of #Flowers, & a #Kirtle
Embroidered all with #Leaves of #Myrtle."