Hi and welcome to my costuming page!
My closet and personal space in the international community of costuming fanatics.
It will contain mainly pictures of and articles relating to historical costume from the middle ages and the renaissance. However, I will not limit myself to this, but occasionally make little excursions into other periods as well.

Well, who am I then?
Well, as stated above; my name is Eva, the whole name being Eva I Andersson. I'm also known as Fru Aleydis by a lot of people, mainly from the medieval group Nordrike.
I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I'm married and have twin daughters born in August 1994 and another girl born the 12 of May 2004.

Historical costuming is not just a hobby to me. Or rather, while the costuming part is a hobby, the research isn't. I'm a historian by profession and the subject of my PhD-dissertation was (surprise!) medieval clothing in Sweden and Norway and the abstract can be found here. The book, which is called Kläderna och människan i medeltidens Sverige och Norge is unfortunately out of print, but is available at a lot of Swedish univeristy libraries. Unfortunately it is only in swedish; one of my dreams is to have it translated to english. Apart from history and costuming I have some other interests too, for instance I sing and socialize with the local Nordrike group Nylöse (If you click on "bilder" you can see many pictures of both me and other people at events). I'm also a member of the SCA shire of Gotvik in the Principality of Nordmark, Kingdom of Drachenwald, but I can't say that I'm active, I just go to a few events, mainly to the camp at Visby medieval week.
I also like reading, mainly books about medieval history of course, but also medieval courtly literature and SF. Another very important thing in my life is football.

If you for some reason are interested in my thoughts on costuming, life in general and other things that passes trough my mind, I have a LiveJournal that you can look at.
I also have a swedish blog about contemporary style, fashion and clothing.

Costume stuff	Other
Costume gallery This is where I show some of the costumes I have done. I also give documentation and occasionally patterns.	What's new?
Dress diaries Sometimes I make a diary of the construction of my outfits. This gives more opportunity to discuss sources and methods.	Sock wish list I am not only interested in costume and history, but also very fond of fun socks. If you, for one reason or another want to give me a present this is a place to look. My snailmail adress can be had by using the above e-mail, or, if you want to suprise me, by contacting my husband. His e-mail is the same as mine, except that instead of eva there is rickard and there's no dot between that and andersson.
Articles and research
Links Some links I've found useful and good, with comments. I do not update this as often as I should and it is in no way complete.	Contact me I can't gurantee that I will answer all e-mails, I am rather busy with my family, sewing and work and sometimes I forget e-mails I've gotten. But I try to answer.