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Christmas party
Dec. 6th, 2003 12:34 pmTonight is my medieval group's traditional christmas party. There will be a potluck and lots of marzipan, flavoured with rose water, saffron or dried fruit. We'll have a "kissing bush", dance, sing christmas songs and play games like blind man's buff. (The music will be mostly renaissance and so will the dances, since there are so few sources from before 1500. At least for the dances there are no exact descriptions before the second half of the 16th century.)
And everybody should have twelve kisses before they leave, for each of the twelve days of christmas and we'll drink warm lamb's wool (mulled cider with apples and whipped cream) It' usually a lot of fun.
Rickard is working, so I'm going alone with the girls and a friend of theirs.
I'm busy making blawmanger (chicken with rice and almonds) and rose pudding now and the girls are away playing football. I also try to do some tidying up and dusting, to at least get started on the christmas cleaning.
I'm trying to decide what to wear tonight. Valeria will wear her soon too small renaissance dress from last summer and Vendela and Anna (their friend) will wear 12th century. I would like to wear 12th century too, but Rickard won't be home to lace me and I'm not very agile these days and have great trouble seeing anything below my breasts. Probably I'll wear something from my Manesse wardrobe instead. I'm thinking about wearing a pink cotte and a blue surcoat lined with orange-brown. All in wool blends, with maybe 20 % poly or something. It won't be warm though so at least heat's not an issue. The outfit is based on this illumination, from the Codex Manesse, although her surcoat is lined with white, most probably fur. This blue surcoat, on the other hand, is lined with orange.
We used the last illumination for the invitations to our wedding and I plan to make these outfits for both of us. I have green and pink wool for Rickard, but have to buy red wool for a cotte for me. I will not be able to line his surcoat with vair, so I will either use white wool or a beautiful grey-white damask we got as a wedding present (it's patterned very discreetly with lozenges). But that's in the future.
Since my brother-in-law is coming I hope to get some pictures of whatever I'm wearing so I can present it at my web page later.
Well, I have to go back to the rose pudding
And everybody should have twelve kisses before they leave, for each of the twelve days of christmas and we'll drink warm lamb's wool (mulled cider with apples and whipped cream) It' usually a lot of fun.
Rickard is working, so I'm going alone with the girls and a friend of theirs.
I'm busy making blawmanger (chicken with rice and almonds) and rose pudding now and the girls are away playing football. I also try to do some tidying up and dusting, to at least get started on the christmas cleaning.
I'm trying to decide what to wear tonight. Valeria will wear her soon too small renaissance dress from last summer and Vendela and Anna (their friend) will wear 12th century. I would like to wear 12th century too, but Rickard won't be home to lace me and I'm not very agile these days and have great trouble seeing anything below my breasts. Probably I'll wear something from my Manesse wardrobe instead. I'm thinking about wearing a pink cotte and a blue surcoat lined with orange-brown. All in wool blends, with maybe 20 % poly or something. It won't be warm though so at least heat's not an issue. The outfit is based on this illumination, from the Codex Manesse, although her surcoat is lined with white, most probably fur. This blue surcoat, on the other hand, is lined with orange.
We used the last illumination for the invitations to our wedding and I plan to make these outfits for both of us. I have green and pink wool for Rickard, but have to buy red wool for a cotte for me. I will not be able to line his surcoat with vair, so I will either use white wool or a beautiful grey-white damask we got as a wedding present (it's patterned very discreetly with lozenges). But that's in the future.
Since my brother-in-law is coming I hope to get some pictures of whatever I'm wearing so I can present it at my web page later.
Well, I have to go back to the rose pudding
