As I mentioned in the first post in this series about our Crispin adventures, our shoemaking instructor recently held a workshop reunion th...

A Cotton Print Gown for a Young Lady, 1750-1790 It is often the young girls who are the ones most fascinated by seeing the clothing ...

Dutch Cotton Chintz Gown, circa 1780 The pattern: This is from my usual bodice that Ashley draped on me at the gown workshop .  Beca...

Are you wondering what you've been missing if you haven't yet joined us on Facebook ? Well...this weekend, you've missed the s...

A Pair of 18th-Century Cotton Dimity Pockets A pair of cotton dimity pockets. How many of you reenactors and costumers have found yo...

Like the previous shoemaking post, this post too was started by Ashley immediately after the workshop in August of 2011 and it too got burie...