All posts by Nikolai Karpushin

Not too long ago I got a hold of a very passionate creator, Pedro Altamirano. At 68 years old, Pedro has been doing embroidery for over 30 years, has work in all seven continents, and has no plans on stopping any time soon! Since the Summer of 1977, Pedro Altamirano has focused his embroidery talent…

Are you planning to attend a Renaissance re-enactment? If so, you should know a bit about Renaissance dress. A lot of clothing, during the Renaissance period, revolved around the use of linen. In the early part of the sixteenth century, dress was actually similar to medieval times. Early Renaissance women often wore a linen chemise….

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Petticoats By Kass Mc Gann History Possibly the most ubiquitous female garment in every time period is the skirt. Allied so closely to femininity, “skirt” became a slang term for women in the 1930s. But it was not always so. At its beginning, the word “skirt” didn’t refer to a female garment at all. The…

By Lisette BC Abbott Linen. The word alone can be intimidating if you’re not a seamstress or tailor. It conjures up exotic locales, perhaps with the ocean’s waves lapping at the coastline, while the sun brilliantly illuminates the pearlescent white caps of the waves. Or, at least that what it does for me. I come…

By Lisette BC Abbott Let me ask you a question: what do you think of when you’re dressing in the morning? Do you think of whether or not your outfit matches? Or whether or not it becomes you? Or whether or not you’d like to lose some weight so you can wear a smaller size?…

By Masha Karpushina To freely explore the oceans of the past, tell the story of vast forgotten cultures, filter the richness of ancient knowledge through my own vision, to introduce myself to intricate delicacies of historical detail, which on any other occasion would have remained closed- feels tempting. By all means, bear with me, as…

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We just received a shipment of 4C22 in Bleached Softened, Natural and Bleached not softened! These are heavy weight 100% linen fabrics, made out of short staple threads so they have more linen slubs and have the genuine home spun look. This fabric can be used for jackets and pants, upholstery, drapes, fighting tunics, sailors’…