My first attempt at some West African clothing
For a while, I’ve wanted to try my hand at making some West African clothing, but I wasn’t really sure where to start. There just aren’t as many resources for it as there are for European things.
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Lucius Aternius Calidus |
Hi, I’m Calidus. I’m currently in the Barony of Bhakail in the East Kingdom, though I started SCA in the Barony of the Forgotten Sea in Calontir. I’m not super active usually since my work schedule prevents me from a lot, but I am chronically online, and can be found on a lot of SCA discord servers, or you can email me at __. I have a lot of random interests and am not particularly good at anything, but I made this site just to have a place to organize whatever I work on.
I’m not college educated, so I don’t really know what I’m doing to be honest. I’m just having some fun and following my weird hyperfixations.
I don’t have any awards, so if you want to recommend me for one, feel free. It’s not something I try to focus on but I know sometimes people think certain people have awards they don’t have so they don’t recommend them so I figured that was worth adding here.
For a while, I’ve wanted to try my hand at making some West African clothing, but I wasn’t really sure where to start. There just aren’t as many resources for it as there are for European things.
Since I’m an obsessive nerd, before making this tunic, I tried to learn if embroidery on roman tunics was actually a thing or not. I couldn’t find much on the subject, but I did find this, which talked about Romans calling embroidery ‘painting with the needle’.
I’ve got a lot of compliments on this outfit, and a lot of people wonder what exactly is going on here. Well, here goes.