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Completed: Heraldic cote- HRM Gregor von Heisler

Posted by: Alysten on: February 6, 2012

HRM Gregor’s cote has been completed. 45 man hours 205 applique parts Blue, black and gold linen, lined with black 5 spools of yellow thread 30 1/2″ metal buttons In progress: Completed image

Swabian Gown #3- update

Posted by: Alysten on: December 1, 2011

Every once in a while I get to work on something neat for someone else. I am part of a team working on a Swabian dress for HRM Kiena of the East. My job is to assemble the pieces into a finished garment and create the undergarments and hat.  All of the sleeve beading and [...]

New: Heraldic cassock- Don Collin Monroe of Tadcaster

Posted by: Alysten on: January 25, 2011

It seems that cassocks are the garment of the day.  This will be another heraldic cassock for another rapier fighter.  Eventually I will get out of the planning phase and get to the making phase of these garments.  This will be an all black cassock with the heraldic device on the sleeve.



  • opusanglicanum: there is a c15th version, and the latest example (the one I used) was from richard dolby cook's dictionary of 1832, quoted in elizabeht ayrtons englis
  • Alysten: I've done several galentines that require that level of boning. But I haven't done one of those types of subtleties yet. I am hoping to attempt one w
  • opusanglicanum: havae you tried the seventeenth century thing where you bone out a whole chicken (that bits tricky as you have to bone it complete from the inside, in

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