Sunday, February 6, 2011

making a back quiver

Dit weekend alle drie de delen van The Lord of the Ring gekeken..We moeten natuurlijk wat inspiratie hebben voor de EFF. Nick wil heel graag als een soort Legolas. Met alles erop en eraan. Hij heeft al een boog met pijlen, en daar hoort natuurlijk een rug quiver bij. Vond deze website met uitleg om er eentje zelf te maken link

Sunday, January 23, 2011

sarafan

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sarafan patterns

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sarafaan

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A sarafan came to North-Western Russia at 1300's as a men's outfit (it was a sort of a coat). It became a women's dress not earlier than 1500's-1600's. People rarely used the word sarafan. They preferred more descriptive titles, that pointed to a material a sarafan was made of (atlasnik - made of silk), or to a certain design's features (klinnik - consists of triangles), or to a region where that sarafan was weared (moskovik - from Moscow). From Nothern Russia a sarafan spreaded among people to Syberia, and Baykal Lake region. In 1700's- 1800's a sarafan became not just peasant's outfit, but a clothes of middle-class urban women, and merchants's wives. In Southern Russia of XVIII-XIX centuries, a sarafan was a costume of young unmarried girls (in contrast to a poneva, which became a mark of marriage) http://traditionalrussiancostume.com