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I am currently making historical costume from 13th century. My reference are grave goods, clothing and jewellery pieces found from grave number 6 in Kekomaki. Fabrics are hand loomed and hand dyed with original pigments. All jewellery is hand made from original materials. All trims are hand...

Here is a hand woven fabric that is pretty close. You need of course overdye and shrink it.

It seems that there is no suitable area for replica costume made after real persons clothes. A person who lived in late Iron Age.

Jack has got a new hand sewn linen shirt and felt tricorn hat. Here he is giving a lesson why syphilis changed wordl so much... Syphilis scar in jaw started good discussion with students.

I have never seen fake fur that would mimik long and curly haired sheep. You can buy either full teeswater sheep pelt or just locks and felt tem in to the base.

Thanks for these tips! I would need prostethics to my forehead and eyebrow area. Around nose asea to make it larger and upper and lower lip that are larger in Neanderthal face. Rest could be my own face.

I am planning to dress as Neanderthal spring 2017. My reference will be modern Neanderthal reconstructions, where most resent scientific data is used. So this person would be light skinned, light haired and eyed. Like this...

Hi! I did search for suitable ski gloves. Instead I bought one more metre of orange fabric and in future I will make gloves. I will post images when I proceed, but it will take time.

Re: The Martian This movie will hopefully have new type of interresting space suit to copy. You can find this books as audiobook from you tube. If you havent red it yet, you should do it immediately.

I feel sad that real Viking history vas not good enough for film makers. Real history would have been much more entertaining and interresting! Film makers just did not do their homework. Now this series is a mess. Real Viking sosiety (very modern and democratic!) would have been interresting to...

Great helmet! Could you share work in progress images?

Your suit looks amazing! Great pictures. If you want you could still add some padding to your upper arms and shoulder joint area. Shoulders were huge in real suits.

You can start this way: You can make basic pattern from oversized pants and shirt + piece of fabric. More detailed instructions in my blog. I am also ready to exhange patterns (in size s - m) to metallic hardware parts from the suit or helmet.

If you are planning to make your own suit, reading this "Tips for making ACES suit" blog might be helpfull. I will still add more images latter. These line drawings should have all major parts and seams visible. If someone is going to make ACES suit helmet, I would be interrested in buying parts.

Hair and face needs also weathering :D This costume looks great.