Medivalweek in Visby 2019

The Medivalweek in Visby came and went. And as always it was great. This year actually better than great! I have been visiting The Medivalweek in Visby every year since 2008 but this year was the first in many years that I lived in my own tent in the medival camp. Its the round pointy one in the middle of the picture below, beside the open sunroof. Thank you Jonas for the fantastic picture of the medival Visby city wall and good company.

I lived in the same camp as friends who had sunroof, tables, benches, chairs, kitchenware...so I was really spoiled!

We spend our days drinking tea and sewing, talking and just having a nice relaxed time. It was a long time ago since I had a medivalweek this relaxed. 

The view from my tent!

Some sewing, some patternmaking, some talking...

My laurel Meisterinne Renike Tucher also took a new apprentice! Which we all happily welcomed, she is a wounderfull person and we had already had a lot of fun together. She got a belt to borrow for a small ceremony to get a belt of her own later. 

There was also time fore hanging out at the beach. We all had some problems with taking pictures in the sun here I think, exept for Jovi and Johan, who was just cute. 

But I also worked a bit, even though it felted more like fun than work. I was selling fabrics for Handelsgillet. I did that last year too, and the red dress that Im wearing here is made of fabric I got for last years salary. Its a fantastic thin twill and is still available for purchase, its the fabric I have my hand on in the picture below.  

Handelsgillet had its place at Kapitelhusgården, a medival restaurant and at medivalweek a medival marketplace. 

This is what I bought, a couple of very interesting books about male fashion, fabrics and a replica of a 16th century swedish ring. 

But I also got these fantastic knitted wool 16th century stockings, made by Mistress Helwig. The shoes are made by Erik Darlekarl.

To unpack, to put stuff away, to realise that the week is over, is difficult and heartbreaking. 

But soon there will be another event. As my friend Gele Pechplumin said at her facebook blog

"So even though this big, amazing and wonderful week is grand, there is more. Maybe the SCA isn't for you, maybe it is, but there are more society's around us with different focus periods and areas." 

I could´nt agree more!