Exhausted and excited

[frualeydis]

I'm back from Varberg. I'm exhausted. I have handled the Bocksten bog man costume: touched, looked at seams and construction and the structure of the fabric. I have four CDs with photos from 1936 when they found it and from the conservations in 1936 and 1982. Repeat: I have touched the Bocksten bog man costume!!! The only complete preserved medieval man's costume and 650 years old!!!
I also got a package from Sock Dreams.

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Re: Bocksten Man Costume

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Hi Paul!
I was thinking about you the other day (I found the Mr Andersson picture you sent by accident while looking for something else). I like the hoods and for once it is a "re-enactors' fashion" that is base don reality; a lot of men in the 14th century are dpeicted wearing a hood. They're not as common for women in pictures but there's lots of them in women's wills. I have made a buttoned hood (http://web.comhem.se/~u31138198/bilder/bluehood.jpg) based on the 14th century finds from London, but all this working with the Bocksten costume makes me want to make a copy. I just have to find someone who's the right size, since I want to use the original measurements. Maybe armillary, he's pretty skinny.

Eva

Re: Bocksten Man Costume

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Hi Eva

Just getting over one of the worst colds I have had in years - more like flu! I like hoods as well, though my persona Master Adam of Edwardstow doesn't always wear them! He does have a green one that I actually bought at Visby. I like hoods that have the long liripipe at the end, so the Bocksten Man is of course so very exciting as it is the real thing. From the pictures it looks as if it was quite close fitting - most that I see and have photographed usually look rather loose. If you manage to do an entire reconstruction of the whole costume, it will be very exciting and well worth doing.

Best Wishes

Paul