Wicked Woollens

In the last few years we've been doing more and more education work bringing aspects of Neolithic life to schools, museums and heritage ...

Thrum caps go back to at least the 16th century, where they were popularly worn by sailors who found the thick, shaggy pile of the cap a pra...

I've been fascinated for a long time by the often brightly coloured sandal socks that occur in Romano-Egyptian and Coptic Egypt. When fi...

I've been a bit quiet recently, partly because I've been busy working on some replica artifacts and costume to be used in the Neolit...

You may recall my earlier adventures with the Welsh Wig in which I visited an extant example and reconstructed the likely pattern for it. ...

Its been a while since I posted, so here is a simple, seasonal little something to cheer up an autumn day: These are a doddle to make sta...

Recently (July/Aug 2013) the bronze age masterpiece known as the Mold Cape has been on tour in Wales , away from its usual home at the Briti...