So, shortly after being asked to join the Laurels in the SCA a touch over two months ago at Oerthan Winter Coronet* I decided that I needed to attempt a real masterwork project for my elevation. My last major project,
the Brunswick Germans was decent...a good trial run of techniques and getting me closer to my goal of a tailored period court suit, but not an attempted masterwork--if not the use of machine stitching, the choices of non-period fabrics was a bar to that in my mind. But now, I can actually afford the good fabrics to do it right, rather than working primarily from stash.
So, I decided to poke around, and see what I could find for inspiration. This was somewhat complicated by wanting to find something I could/would actually wear, but other than the Germans I have been playing with. Eventually, I ran across a certain portrait--one Sir Edward Hastings at the age of 29, in 1573. It is absolutely gorgeous, and I will probably do a
Featured Garment post on it sooner rather than later.
