I thought I’d share some of my Civil War reenacting pictures. I’m always the seated one (I’m a quadriplegic) and that’s my best friend with me. The black and white ones were taken using real 1860s methods. They’re glass plates. My dress in the solo picture dates to 1865 and the black shawl dates to 1863. The other clothes are reproduction, made by us.
Nice job! To which society do you belong?
WW2 Africa corps BMW motorbike with sidecar
This picture has been taken by a colleague of my boyfriend in Desenzano, not during a reenacting event but just there along the street. It is original German Wehrmacht of WWII°. The BMW is painted in Afrika Korps sand camouflage and that’s correct because you can see, atop the tank, the dome protecting the special air filter for desert operation.
This German, 14th-15th century Bag is a reproduction from the Victoria and Albert museum in London. It is approx 3 3/8 inches by 3 3/8 inches and is embroidered with Linen thread and coloured silks in satin stitch on linen fabric.
The bag is made from one piece of fabric folded on one side and stitched closed along the bottom and remaining side. The opening of the bag is finished with linen cloth tacked down over the top of the Bag. The tassels are not attached to the bag but are woven through the fabric of the pouch. The middle tassel hangs straight down while the two ends angle out.
A cord is strung through the pouch to close it and to hang from a belt low to the calf or ankle of the wearer.
Coins or small precious items would probably of been kept in this pouch. They were often made by ladies as a past time.
Individual Quotes on request.
This is a beautiful reconstruction work done by Jennie Black. She is making historical garments professionally on request.
Warning, there is a small rant coming up.One of the things I find frustrating in life is when I am explaining something and I’m cut off by another person who then has to paraphrase everything I just said or tell me how I should say it better. In this case I find it annoying to have my post reblogged, or pm’d twice and explained how I should have translated it better.
I’m glad that you speak French and German and Klingon and every other language out there. I took German, Japanese, French, and Latin and mastered none of them.
Just a heads up from now on when I say Google Translate, or phrases like according to Google this means, or any variation involving Google and Google Translate please understand that I am using Google Translate, the translation will be complete rubbish. It only took me one assignment in French class to understand that it doesn’t actually work. My teacher created a wall of Google shame and left it up there for the entire semester.
My thought was that people (myself included) who don’t parlez Français might appreciate having a very basic understanding of what the auction house wrote.
Obviously I was wrong.
My bad, guess it’s another one of those things I’m not allowed to post on my own blog.
The Real Abandoned Overlook Hotel
Unlike the fictional Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, this hotel is really named the Overlook. The abandoned hotel is located in the small, wine growing town of Bernkastel-Kues in Germany. Other than it has been unoccupied for about 13 years, there is no information as to why the hotel was closed. All of the furniture remains and it looks as if everyone there simply left. There are rumors that the hotel is haunted. According to urban explorers who frequent the spooky site, cameras malfunction, sounds can be heard throughout the premises and items seem to move around the hotel by themselves.
Wow - beautiful, this is only about an hours drive from here in the wine region along the Mosel river, I wonder why they closed it.
The name would be “Überblick” in German which suggests a beautiful view over something, probably the river and the adjacent vineyards.
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Another example of an item being sold that was originally listed on AA.
Comparing the acution description (especially the dates) is very interesting.
AA lists this item as: Young Lady’s Sea Side Ensemble, c. 1880: 3-piece, skirt, bodice & belt, all in blue chambray trimmed w/ ivory eyelet bands: skirt w/ apron front, hem ruffle & 5 ruffles over bustle back; fitted blouse, front thread woven buttons, band collar; eyelet belt w/ huge chambray back bow, B 30”, W 20”, Skirt L 52”, (couple tiny holes, brown discoloration on chambray) very good; t/w 1 red & white striped cotton shirt waist, excellent. Brooklyn Museum
The current listing describes the item as: Robe pour le bord de mer, vers 1890, en toile de coton chinée bleu ciel, corsage cintré à basques rondes, garnitures de volants et entredeux en broderie anglaise. Jupe à tablier drapé à 5 hauteurs de volants sur la tournure, (usures et restaurations).
And according to google this means: Dress for the seaside, 1890, canvas cotton mottled blue sky, bodice curved round skirts and ruffles trim entredeux broderie anglaise. Skirt apron draped 5 heights of flying on the turn (wear and restorations).
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the french “vers” I would translate to the german “gegen” which in English would mean something like “about” or “towards” so AA tends more to dating it early 1880s, the other toward the later part of the same decade.
“en toile de coton chinée bleu ciel” I would translate to “sky blue mottled cotton”. The english term chambray which AA used instead means something similar, it stands for a light cotton or linnen cloth with coloured filling in linnen binding, so AA gives a more detailed description of the way the cloth was woven whilst the other source clearly puts the emphasis on the material not beeing linnen but cotton.
a “corsage cintrée” is a fitted bodice, “basques rondes” are rounded “coat-tails”, which I suppose in this case doesn´t refer to the skirt, but probably the bodice back or maybe the apron.
“garnitures de volants” I would translate as decorated with ruffles and “et entredeux en broderie anglaise” I would say means lace with English embroidery. Here´s a nice description of it: http://www.embroiderersguildwa.org.au/Types%20of%20Embroidery/broderie.htm
Here´s a nice detail shot of the embroidery on the dress:
“Jupe à tablier” is the apron, “drapé à 5 hauteur de volants” draped in 5 levels of quillings, “sur la tournure” means “around the stature” (…of the lady naturally)
Case Steam Tractor from 1893 (by Beast 1)
This must be one of the very first tractors, amazing and I bet the steampunk guys would also love it, pity I´ve never seen anything like it on a multi-period reenactment.
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Kandahari Khamak Embroidery, Kandahar Treasure.
“Khamak, an intricate form of embroidery, is worked in silk thread and is a trademark of Kandahar. Girls learn this ancient art form at an early age and continue to do it throughout their lives. Inspired by complex Islamic geometric patterns, Khamak is unique to Kandahar and is considered by art experts to be one of the world’s finest embroidery techniques. It is traditionally used to decorate the striking, floor-length shawls worn by Southern Afghan men, as well as table linen, women’s head-coverings, and girls’ wedding trousseaus. The practice of Khamak involves counting the threads of the fabric weave (hence cotton and linen are the best raw materials for this embroidery) in order to stitch geometric shapes with silk-thread. The work is done in a sitting position with the embroidery positioned on the top of a bended knee.” [x]
Beautiful embroideries and a great project to enable women in Afghanistan to contribute to the family income and to keep the knowledge about the old techniques alive. I will surely follow them, pity they only sell in the US so far it seems.
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Here’s an article with bunches more, men and women, from more specific settings around the world.
It’s really interesting that I personally find the average to be beautiful. I am fascinated that what our brain views as beauty is compared to an average that has removed all
flawsoutlying traits and shows only the most average of features.Just goes to show that even our brains teach us that fitting in is beauty. It’s also really interesting to see that even a bunch of “ugly” people, or an incredibly diverse group of people ends up looking idealized.
Still, this is worth looking at even for the idea that globalization of earth is causing a stronger correlation between all people. People are beautiful. So is diversity.
Cow shoes made by moonshiners during the prohibition to disguise their footprints.
1922.
So far I had only read about those but never saw one.
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