Museum Photos Archives - Racaire's Workshop

7th century art, 8th century art, 9th century art, Berlin, Exhibitions, Hand-Sewing, Medieval Art, Middle Ages, Misc., Museum, Museum Photos, Museums - Germany, Photos, Racaire

…a little 7th to 9th century doll tunic…

2019/12/28

Have you ever wondered what kids played with centuries ago? Pictures of toys from the very last centuries are available in quite an abundance but they get more and more rare the further you go back in time. Therefore you might very well imagine my great joy when I found this lovely little doll tunic from the 7th to 9th century on display at the Bode Museum.

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Exhibitions, Medieval Art, Middle Ages, Misc., Museum, Museum Photos, Museums - Austria, Photos

…and more museums and photos…

2019/12/26

Apropos photos – I uploaded some of my photos to facebook and thought you might enjoy them: Special guided tour through the Landeszeughaus/Armory Graz, Austria 2004

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5th century art, Berlin, Exhibitions, Museum, Museum Photos, Museums - Germany, Photos, Sprang

Bode Museum – Sprang hairnet from the 5th century

2019/12/26

Sprang is an old technique that got several of my friends very excited recently. And as I have a certain love for interesting and rare things, I remembered a wonderful example from the 5th century on display at the Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany. I had the great pleasure to get to see and photograph this beautiful piece during my visit in 2014 and hope you’ll enjoy it too:

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12th century art, Medieval Art, Middle Ages, Misc., Photos

Interesting Links – a great extant 12th century dress inspiration :D

2017/04/26

I am tremendously excited! I was just browsing the internet and looking at pictures of 12th century artwork as I run into a lovely detail photo of a 12th century female statue. And as I followed the picture to its source, I discovered a complete photo album… 😀 Well, after looking at 12th century artwork for about 10 years now, it doesn’t happen very often that I run into really good detail photos of extant 12th century artwork which I haven’t seen yet. But I still look out for them as the excitement of finding new detail photos or a special unique piece still gives me a good thrill… *giggle*

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12th century art, 12th century grey light-wool tunic, 12th century projects, Museum, Museum Photos, Museums - Austria, Projects

12th century tunic for my husband – 12th century neckline inspired by the “blue Dalmatika” & “white Alba”

2016/05/19

And today let’s take a further look at the 12th century tunic I made for my husband last winter and especially its 12th century neckline inspired by the “blue Dalmatika” and the “white Alba”. I already started to post about this 12th century tunic project several weeks ago but somehow I got a little bit sidetracked after the last posting. It seems like my brain acts like a squirrel at times as I can get easily distracted. Sometimes it can be a hard task for me to keep track of all my projects as there are so many – future, current and already finished ones… However, postponed is definitely not abandoned. I am picking up the thread right…

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Barcelona, Impressions, Middle Ages, Misc., Mission Medieval Barcelona, Museum, Museum Photos, Museums - Spain, Photos

Mission Medieval Barcelona accomplished… – my favorite photos from day #3 :D

2014/07/20

Recently I already posted the photos of day #1 and day #2 of my trip to Barcelona. And today I have even more photos for you from day #3. It took some time to go through all the photos which I took during this day. But finally I managed to put together another selection of my favorite photos for you – enjoy! 🙂

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Impressions, Middle Ages, Misc., Mission Medieval Vienna, Museum, Museum Photos, Museums - Austria, Photos, Vienna

…on a medieval photo safari in Vienna…

2014/07/18

At the moment I am on a medieval photo safari in the museums of Vienna… 😀 …I was so excited about the quality of the photos which my new Sony Alpha dslr takes that I decided to “re-take” some photos of my favorite pieces on display at the local museums. Yesterday I already spent about 3.5hours at the treasury and after a first look through my new photos I have to say: all this awesome details! I want more! I am definitely going back today to take more photos! *lol*

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12th century art, 12th century projects, Embroidery, Kingdom of An Tir, Medieval Art, Medieval Embroidery, Museum - Online Collections, Patches for my 12th century wedding dress project, Projects, Split Stitch

Racaire’s wedding cloak project – 12th century inspired patch #4 from the SCA Barony Montengarde in Avacal (Canada)

2014/05/30

It’s time again to show you another awesome patch I got for my wedding cloak project! I proudly present to you this beautiful embroidered patch for my 12th century wedding cloak project by courtesy of lady Sorcha de Lenche. It was hand embroidered by the lovely and very talented lady Sorcha de Lenche. Who is not only a very talented artisan but also a very kind and nice lady. She sent this beautiful hand embroidered wedding cloak patch from the SCA Barony Montengarde situated in the Principality of Avacal, a part of the mighty SCA Kingdom of An Tir. 😀

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10th century art, 12th century art, 13th century art, 14th century art, Embroidery, Exhibitions, Inspiration for Scrolls - 10th century, Medieval Art, Medieval Embroidery, Museum, Museum - Online Collections, Museum Photos, Projects, Scriptorium, Scroll Peerage - Knighting

Interesting Links – inspiration for a 10th century SCA knighting scroll and more…

2014/05/28

It appears somehow funny and also really amazing to me how Fortuna works from time to time… *lol* Yesterday I was talking about a very special scroll commission for a SCA peerage scroll. About a 10th century SCA knighting scroll for the upcoming knighting ceremony of a friend – btw. my very first peerage scroll! 🙂 …and today I already run into an inspiration for it, awesome coincidence, isn’t it… *lol* Well, I don’t worry much about the fact that I have never done a peerage scroll till now. I already made so many scrolls that even a peerage scroll is also “just” another scroll for me. Like always I hope that the…

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12th century art, 12th century projects, 12th century Saint Michael and the Dragon, Embroidery, Medieval Art, Medieval Embroidery, Museum, Museum Photos, Museums - Germany, Projects, Split Stitch

12th century embroidery – Saint Michaels 12th century face finished – sneak peek.10

2014/05/14

Yesterday I made again some good progress concerning my “12th century embroidery – Saint Michael and the Dragon“. 😀 It was really a hard struggle with the thread, the needle and the fabric but finally Saint Michael got his 12th century face. I am very happy and also very proud of how it turned out. When you compare the original outlines at the picture at the top left with the embroidery underneath, you will see that the final embroidery looks really very different. Though the final shape of his face might look odd to our modern eyes, it is based on a period example which I found on a 12th century wallhanging.

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