Wearing my DIY German Renaissance Cranach style collar necklace
I follow the costumer daisyviktoria on Instagram (after following her in the past on other mediums too) and in November she posted a project that I immediately leapt on, because I already had the materials left over from another project!
In a previous post I showed off the gold tone necklace, and here I’ll show off the silver.
German Renaissance Cranach style collar necklace DIY
I follow the costumer daisyviktoria on Instagram (after following her in the past on other mediums too) and in November she posted a project that I immediately leapt on, because I already had the materials left over from another project!
An impromptu white linen Wulsthaube just put together to photograph the Dockenbaret
After going through my fabric stash and doing my capsule wardrobe record, I came up with not one, but four different collections of fabrics I really wanted to use for German Renaissance clothing.
One is for a Cranach gown, but the other three are for the Landsknecht style of costume which I really haven’t researched much at this point. I figured however that I’d start with appropriate headwear, and kind of go from there. I do love headwear… and I always seem to start with the headwear before I make the gown!
Partially this is also because of the July 2020 Historical Sew Monthly entry from Johanna – a Wulsthaube which made me want to make one too!
My second attempt at a black wool Dockenbaret using a different pattern
As I was doing my analysis of my German wardrobe in my German Capsule Collection post, I recognized that one of the things I wanted to add to the wardrobe was a hat in a more historically-informed colour.
I have three hats for this period already – a blue-on-blue Tellerbarret, a teal tweed Dockenbaret with ostrich feathers, and a black wool Dockenbaret which I shared for my January Historical Sew Fortnightly entry.
While making that one, I found a different pattern approach I wanted to try… hence.. yet another hat!
Black Dockenbaret
As I was doing my analysis of my German wardrobe in my German Capsule Collection post, I recognized that one of the things I wanted to add to the wardrobe was a hat in a more historically-informed colour.
I have two hats for this period already – a blue-on-blue Tellerbarret, and a teal tweed Dockenbaret with ostrich feathers. (Which I referred to as a split-brim hat.) However in portraits the most common colours are red and black, with the occasional white hat appearing as well. I wish I could find ample heaps of affordable red wool, but alas, no such luck…. so black wool it would be!
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