Loose Threads: Yet Another Costuming Blog

Empire awake.   Empire, at rest on a sofa at the rescue place. Meet Empire!  (He's named after the apple variety, not the governmental e...

Long time readers will recall my (few) posts about Sugar, my first cat.   Today, Zola, Sugar's successor, died at the age of almost 9 ye...

Recently, the National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, reconstructed two complete outfits, a man's outfit and a woman's.  The man...

Recently, I learned that the Handcrafted History blog contains a wealth of free tutorials--51 to be exact--for projects of various complexi...

Beads found at Hestnes, in Central Norway. (Photo: Åge Hojem, NTNU University Museum) This week, I read an article about an archaeological d...

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...

The Gokstad Ship.  Photograph by Karamell,  found on Wikimedia Commons In 1880, a 9th century CE Viking ship  was discovered in a burial mou...

A recent article from Archaeology in Europe News  reports on the find of a nearly complete set of Roman body armor found in the Teutoberg Fo...

I have done nothing relating to costuming this month.  Mostly that's because I've undertaken a temporary job, working for the US Cen...

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

Back in April, I reviewed two books by ChronoCopia Publishing:  A Handbook of Men's Clothing and Handbook of the  15th Century and A Ha...

Today's collection of one-afternoon projects is about aprons. Aprons appear to have been made throughout history, and could be pract...

This month's collection of tutorials consists of quickly made items that are worn on the hands or arms.  I couldn't find any jewelr...

Lego blocks isolated on the white background Free photo 6223582 © Tomas Valenta, Bm Association - Dreamstime.com This post is the opp...

At the request of Daniel Serra of ChronoCopia Publishing, I am reviewing the following books.  They are very similar to each other and ev...

Here's a little surprise for my readers--and me as well! Daniel Serra has asked me to review some books from Chronocopia Publishing...

Since I have not attempted to gather shoe construction projects for my collection of "one afternoon tutorials," I figured that I ...

While exploring a post on Instagram, I found myself looking at the updated Medieval Dress and Textiles Society webpage and found out, from ...

For me, January was mostly a loss; I spent part of it recovering from a bone strain (that might otherwise have resulted in a fracture) and ...