thank you so much
SnowAngelokay so here are the some pictures of my dresses and the accessories that go with them. In real like it's very hard to say just exactly how medival Russian would dress because no actual archeological finding have been found of a full costume. We glean as much as we can from old pictures and description and little bits of things that are found, but it's hard to say for sure. The dress is very simple
both the over dresses are handsewn, I did that to make them more authentic
Here is the linen dress
linen dressunder the dress is another linen dress called the 'under dress', it's basically undergarments that you always wear under any type of over dress. It looks identical to the over dress
I decorated the sleeves and the coller of this dress with tabletwoven strips made of linen thread
coller sleeveand the
belt is a new belt of mine (though it has been through a number of historical festivals and has gotten a bit scragely)
and here's my woolen over dress
woolen dresswoolen dress 2it's pretty much the same as the linen one except the sleeves are wider. I haven't decorated it yet cause I plan to sew silk stripes along the collar and sleeve, but silk is difficult to work with and since procrastination is my first name and laziness would be my second name, I haven't gotten around to it
I think I have posted pictures of my
belt with it is my bag made of silk. People didn't have pockets in those days so you wore bags on your belt to keep things. Technically I should have around three but I've only made one so far. Oh and another very important part of the costume is this thingy called an
'ochelie'. It's basically a band with temple rings that you tie around your head. Mine is also tabletwoven, out of cotton thread, though it's a very big argument if cotton was used in those days
Mel, I haven't taken the pictures of the tabletweaving process yet, I've been really busy this past few days, but do plan to take them, it's on my to do list