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@@marvelholt21 I'm teaching hours of dance classes and leading to dance parties. Judith de Northumbria on the schedule. Please come say hello! 😊

Thank you! I actually already did a long n format on this setup, so no need to wait. 😊 czcams.com/video/OIbPB8yDQJ8/video.html

@thecreativecontessa Thanks! I just found your channel last night (sub'd) and now get to explore 😀

Thank you for watching and commenting! I'm pleased that it has been helpful. I wish the CZcams algorithm agreed with you. 🤣 as to your question, I think it should be no problem to cut the skirts extra-long and put a tuck in them that you can then let out incrementally as she gets taller. There are multiple images from 15th century Italy depicting skirts with a tuck on the outside, either put in place because it was a second-hand dress bought by someone who is shorter than the original owner, or in order to let the skirts down for a pregnancy belly. Either way it is an authentic method! 🙂

@thomasrehbinder7722 thank you for watching! I know it's not the most thrilling thing, but there does seem to be an audience for watching someone else craft or create something in real time

@@thecreativecontessa Sometimes non-thrilling is exactly what we need.

Thank you for the question! I would suggest flatlining each individual panel and then whipstitching the pieces together. Does that make sense?

@@thecreativecontessaSo whipstitching the pieces together doubles as a seam finish? Did I understand correctly? But is there a way to finish princess seams after they have been sewn regularly? On my pattern instructions it says to notch into the seam but it doesn’t say how to finish the seam. Thank you

🤣 Indeed, some discernment is required. 😅

@catherineleslie-faye4302 thank you! That was covid project!😅

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😅 Kitty chest presses, for the win!

Also, what do you mean by the loss of floor space because there are no perimeter poles, I actually find I have more floor space than a tent with perimeter poles in the way.

@@thecreativecontessa It's very wet here when it's not on fire, so I can't put anything against the tent walls, such as a bed or chests, or even a clothing bar. Having a pole in the center takes up very valuable floor space in that way.

I had never viewed that Golden Fleece collar of maintenance through that lens before, but that is certainly a plausible interpretation considering the portrait subject.😅

Apparently, that account of Edward II's death is actually believed to be false by most historians. There's even some evidence that he was still alive in the 1330s!

@@susanpolastaples9688 Thank you! Have you seen the tour of the final setup? czcams.com/video/OIbPB8yDQJ8/video.html

@@thecreativecontessa yes I did and just rewatched it. Your tent in 2022 looked different with the metal poles and the unicorn tapestry is one of my favourites. Just was looking at Armour and Castings Instagram and saw a Virginia and St Joseph (.?) Cloak clasp used as a giorna clasp. Gorgeous. Something to add to the Contessa's jewellery?

@@thecreativecontessa oh and thanks

@@davidalearmonth excited to see you all again!

@@mikoro-zg7ll please come to one of my dance classes or balls! 😊

I will for sure try and stop by!🫶🏻

So does the CZcams algorithm period one of the top Search terms for this video is Mona Lisa. 😅

Awww, thank you! Also, the algorithm agrees with you! That's one of the top Search terms that brings people to this video series. 🤣

In Florence in this era, ladies of social standing would definitely not have gone out unaccompanied. And also, they would not have gone outside in just these layers. 😊

Great question for my wool and linen garments, I gently hand wash in a tub with cold water some vinegar to make sure the water is the right pH. Stains are treated with dish soap and a vinegar solution. All of the wool pretty much never stains, just linen. For silk I do stain treatment for the most part sometimes I'll do a cold water soak depending on the specific garment,v again with a vinegar solution. I often also hang them up in the shower and just use the shower head to rinse out the dirt. Linen undergarments I just outright laundry in a washing machine on delicate and cold. Some things I will send to the dry cleaners. I guess it depends on the garment! 😅

OK. It`s wool. I jumped the gun on the vid.

Thank you for the great comment, though! 😊

And yes, wool is super easy to work with in general! And it really is an all-weather fabric. Good when it's hot, good when it's cold, good when it's humid, good when it's dry

Well spotted! 😀

It was truly magical!

True enough! 🤣 re: senza dame di Corte, I sadly often find myself without my ladies-in-waiting to take care of me!

@@thecreativecontessa what does that mean?

Thank you! It was a covid project. Have you seen the project Vlog on that embroidery?

@@thecreativecontessa I haven’t! I might check it out, but I’m catching up on many of your cool projects, so I’ll probably get to it. I promise I’m stalking history, not you.

​@laurahewitt5451 I'm cool with you "stalking" my content! 😊

For those who wish to watch the embroidery vlog: czcams.com/video/1iU4hMp2Fu8/video.html

Funny thing is that before Henry Ford basically destroyed our country, towns were laid out for public transit in and actually had public transit systems. Henry Ford apparently bought up many of those systems and dismantled them so that people would have to buy cars. And thus, the horrible horrible suburbs were born. That being said, I still think public transit is possible in most medium-sized cities. But there are certain lobbies who definitely don't want that to happen.

@@thecreativecontessa While that is a common claim in modern urbanist and anti-car rhetoric, it is but partially true. Prior to industrialization in the mid-late 19th century, most of the population lived in low-density rural areas-indeed, far lower density than virtually anywhere else. Whereas most of habitable Afroeurasia has been relatively consistently occupied as densely as logistically possible from around the neolithic, what is now the USA underwent an apocalyptic plague relatively shortly after the discovery of the New World with the remaining Natives systematically displaced in the subsequent centuries. There was practically infinite land for the colonists, which created a profoundly different relationship to space and distance and thus density. America was built around travel with carts, wagons, carriages, horses, boats, and ships, unlike near everywhere else on the planet being established based on foot travel and the occasional settlement by aquatic travel. The central and western states were built up around the logistics of trains and ships, and the USA had small farms and semi-independent homesteads at a scale largely unheard of anywhere else other than post-depopulation events. A lot of new homes and settlements were made after automobiles became ubiquitous, too, and their distances both internal and external make them dependent on said vehicles. It is not unusual to be over an hour away (by automobile) from the nearest grocery store in the USA, depending on the area. That said, it is certainly true that this was massively exacerbated by automobiles, and a lot of infrastructure was altered around it. Regional overspecialization and excessive outsourcing also dominate our national logistics and transportation systems, often at the expense of pedestrians. American settlements to this day tend to be more geographically spread out, though especially small and mid-size towns. They rarely make remotely enough income to make anything short of a massive loss, indicating that they are too expensive to be anything other than a collective value loss to the area. A lot of the places in the USA where public transportation is _approaching_ worth it already have it. It is also easy to misunderstand what was the standard at one point in history as being normal, when the economic and logistical phase of the relatively brief period public transportation (especially in America) has existed may actually be anomalous or was built on unsustainable premises. The entire 20th and 21st centuries of the USA were an extreme historical and economic anomaly. However, I do not lay that much at Ford. The destruction of the Civil War and carpetbaggers resulted in a massive disenfranchisement of local industry throughout most of the South and was later expanded by things like FDR's New Deal. The entire logistical system became contingent on intense regional specialization in a way usually exclusive to trade-hub powers and thus requires an enormous amount of mass, long-distance transportation that, in a vacuum, is more expensive than local production. I have found the activists for public transportation often consider it myopically and idealistically, without consideration of the holistic context and why what worked in a different context is inapplicable to ours.

@@nevisysbryd7450 I will see what I can put together! 😊

Thank you for the note! That being said, I was definitely not going to dive into what water carrying devices might be appropriate for a specific personae because this video is not about an authentically medieval pennsic, but rather surviving the event. 🙂 As you say, no matter one's persona, a leather costrel is an infinitely massive improvement over modern water carrying devices, and pottery options might be too heavy (and fragile) for some people. Besides which - and this is most pertinent to this particular video - leather ones are much more common amongst pennsic merchants than ceramic ones.

@Elentarien thank you for sharing your experience and personal preferences! you are not alone! Many people I know do not like having anything on their heads. I personally love wearing hats and headdresses, but I realize that it is not everyone's cup of tea! It might be interesting to try a coffee and see if that is a happy medium between a full-on hat and crispy sunburnt hair?

I really appreciate you taking the time to post that question here! 😊 The neckline is symmetrical in terms of number of pleats in front and back. Note that it should be higher in the back than it is in the front.

But I should also add that it doesn't really matter if there are more pleats in the front or the back. In fact there are some versions of this in the later 15th century where it looks like there's only a couple of pleats in the front and no pleats anywhere else along the neckline or the sleeves!

And the chemise should be higher in the back than it is in the front. The idea is that gowns are generally higher in the back than they are in the front and that the chemise needs to reflect that to protect the Gown against your skin

Bodkin is correct! I purchased mine at pennsic, which may or may not b help you. But as a stopgap, you can actually use a large embroidery needle with a large eye, like the kind used for carpet making.

@@thecreativecontessa epic thank you so much 💜

That is Indian music and that is a sitar among other instruments. Historical Korean music is not necessarily what most westerners would find very relaxing. 🤣

Indeed, it is even possible to reliably fix bad eyes these days! You just need the right leech! 😀😅

I appreciate you watching and genuinely hope it will directly benefit you at Pennsic someday! Please do share the video with anyone else who might find it useful and/or interesting. 😊

@@thecreativecontessa you’re welcome! And I will absolutely be sharing with others! ❤️

Well I hope you can attend someday! But also, did you see that it's possible to work at pennsic?

@@thecreativecontessa I use a walker to get around... I wonder what type of work I might do at pennsic?

@catherineleslie-faye4302 I think being a shop clerk would work? They always need people to sit in the booths and accept payments. And I have seen many individuals with Mobility restrictions working in various merchant shops. 😊

@@thecreativecontessa If I was handling cash I'd be fine clerking... but not touch screens as they go crazy on me if they work at all. Perhaps next year I can work at pennsic...