There just isn't enough ancient fashion recreation/interpretation out there. I'm glad I found this video. Thanks for the detailed explanations and 'reviews' of the different sheath dresses. I totally want to make one of my own now.
Totally! And I love how you talk about bust support. In my mid-30s, my boobs are not where I left them, but also.... sometimes you just don't want to wear a bra
What's funny is how very modern these clothing styles look 😄 without the extra accessories, these would blend in well as summer dresses in the 21st century
Lovely video! I will say that the goddess you were referring to when speaking about your red sheath wasn't Nut. That is the goddess Isis/Iset/Auset. She's typically depicted with a red sheath dress with the wings and step like headdress. Nut is the goddess of the sky, she's depicted as a woman basically making an arch over the earth. Her husband Geb is the earth god, and Shu is the air god that separates them. Just thought I'd clear that up. 😊 Keep up the great work! 💜
Aset is actually Nut's (pronounced NOOT) eldest daughter. :) Nut is goddess of the night sky. Another Netjeret (goddess) that typically wears the red dress is Hethert (Hathor), and is Heru-wer's (Horus the Elder) wife. She's the goddess of love, music, female sexuality, and the daytime sky. The two have a syncretic form, Hethert-Nut, and she is depicted in the Establishment of the Celestial Cow myth. *Autistic special interest ftw*
YES! An SCA Member! I'm so excited to see what you unearth on this subject and any other you tackle. I love how SCA tries to look at historically accurate recreation and some members actually made careers out of their passions and are actively trying to figure out methods of dying, weaving, blacksmithing, jewelry making, illumination of manuscripts and so much more that were used in times past. I came here to try to make a simple Egyptian dress, fit for a middle society woman, a craftsperson like a weaver or a brewer. But this makes me want to try to recreate so much more!
I still dont know why movie makers dont ask Daysi Viktoria or similar designers to make custonms for their historical movies. I mean, Daisy is a master in ancient clothing, she does a previous investigation, she studies the fabric, colors, the making itself and its wonderful.
I’ve been experimenting with weaving self-pleating linen, using cramming and denting in the reed, and using over-spun linen thread - the ancient egyptians put a ton of twist into their threads!
Concerning the dress from the Deshasheh finds ( white linen) the weft fringe should be visible on the left side and the front deep v is tied together by 3 pairs of twisted flax ties. Also be aware these were funeral gowns and cut very narrow( since there wouldn’t be any movement) so we really don’t know the actual body fit .
These are kinda fantastic. Ive been thinking I'd like some Egyptian for next Pennsic and stumbled across your video. Your experimentation is similar to the ideas I've had in mind. I'm thinking I'll whip this out and wear it for Halloween. What I'm really looking forward to is the jewelry video. 🙂
really appreciate the extra length you went through to depict these outfits like the desert/tropical backgrounds or the redone hair inbetween the scenes. well done, exceptional content
Very interesting! I wonder if they would have pinned the skirt, like a kilt. I used to make the cover for my barbie when I was little! I didn't know actual people wear them!
The lady that I work for sews some really lovely simple caftans with drawstring waists. Those are my favourite of the dresses that I've gotten from work.
One of the reasons I left the SCA was the changing of the designation of the group from "Living history as it should have been" (hence anachronism in the name) to a "historic reenactment" group While I am a total history geek, and I love reenactment, changing the group to total historic reenactment, took the fun out of it for me and most of the people who joined with me lo those many years ago
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I absolutely love the first two dresses. While they're not completely accurate to what we have in excavated examples, they still work. As a cosplayer, while I like to keep it mostly to the real fabrics within my budget when doing an Ancient Kemetic character or one that's inspired by it, sometimes you want the fantasy, modesty, and your comfort to balance with it. I'd love to see a tutorial on the first two dresses for the cosplay side of stuff. It'd work great for a lot of inspired characters (including my own superheroes).
I think the non socially acceptable dress + the wrap style looks amazing on your body and i really like how you can see the straps by transparency, gives it a lot of depth!
Now I don't know anything about this, and according to the comments, you're probably right. But on the wall painting (or whatever it is, the one with the kneeling woman) of the first dress I'd have thought it had a skin colored top of sorts underneath the dress. Like it doesn't look like bare skin to me, but what do I know 🤷😁
I'm more interested in where you got the beads from for the collar. My collar was nicked years ago and I haven't been able to find the right beads to make another one (long and either circular or square in shape) out of clay or ceramic - as the original ones were, plenty available in plastic but they are NOT authentic.
Much cooler than the Greek stuff we usually see. The temperature is usually the excuse for trying to be a Greek Statue. Unfortunately most of those of us in the Society for Creative Anachronism don’t have a Greek woman’s body
Greetings! I will be attending my very first SCA event in August 2023. Pennsic Wars. Second week Aug 4th -13th 2023. The friend I will be going with is a long time member and has an established Persona. I am still working on mine. Being a crafty dancer [ belly dance] I am focusing in on Egypt. Thank you for this video! Very helpful! However I was trying to find a the pdf pattern on your website and couldn't find it? Should I just sign up on your website, or send you an email ? Please let me know P.S. found your page on Facebook as well
Hi, I'm a student and I want to recreate an egyptian dress for a project. I've never sewed anything ans I wanted to know if you could give me advice. Also, where did you get the necklace? Did you make it yourself?
Please, please, stop calling us re-enactors. We are re-creators. It may sound like the same thing, but it isn't. We don't play at being Henry VIII for an audience; we create our own alternate personas, we have our own kingdoms. We don't fight the Hundred Years War (or any particular battle); we have our own wars. And that's why you'll see an ancient Egyptian sitting with a Viking and an Elizabethan. Re-enactors are very, very specific, like the Civil War folk. Everyone there is doing the early 1860s, and, to my understanding, there is very little wiggle room for things like substituting cotton for wool, for example. Neither is better than the other; we just do different things. And then there are the LARPers, and they have a completely different set of rules. But, again, please describe us accurately, so people aren't disappointed when they come, or don't stay away, because they think we're something we're not. Thanks.
