Loose Threads: Yet Another Costuming Blog

From BBC.com we have an article about a fascinating rare Iron Age textile find on display at the Scottish Crannog Centre in Kenmore, Perthsh...

Today I learned that it's easy to search, and locate pictures of, historical textiles in the Ashmolean's Eastern Art collection in ...

Feed sack of type used to make clothing. (Wikimedia Commons). Normally, I don't read or write much about clothing in modern times.  It u...

Bearded Man in a kākahu  (by Albert Percy Godber, Wikimedia Commons)  The EXARC site ( https://exarc.net/ ) has created a new subpa...

In a publication called the Norwegian Textile Letter  that has recently gone digital, I found an article about a wonderful experiment by so...

From an Internet friend I learned about the existence of the following book: Iris Tzachili and Eleni Zimi, eds.  Textiles and Dress in Gre...

I'm still not ready to return to regular costume blogging, but over the past day I've found a number of fascinating Early Period li...

After reading Marianne Vedeler's book Silk for the Vikings, I was eager to find a modern reproduction of a period patterned fabric (I d...

Recently, I found a report about various archaeological finds at the Bessastaðir site in Iceland. (The link leads to the Academia.edu sit...

After my last post about my himation project, I did a bit of digging for information about how Byzantines other than royals and courtiers ...

I continue to find extremely interesting articles in NESAT X. Two of the articles I read recently strongly support the idea that dyed fabri...

I just learned from the LiveJournal of a friend of a friend (thanks, mmy life!) that Inga Hägg has put up a web site, here . Most people, ...

Today I was re-reading Google Translate's English rendition of the Russian article I'd located on the Pskov finds, and noticed that...