Welcome to Opus Elenae!

I am a historical recreationist making videos about medieval and renaissance historical sewing, calligraphy and scribal arts, tutorials, and more. I mainly play in the SCA but also veer into fantasy LARP and Renaissance festival territory.

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  • Changes
    Soooo…. It’s been a while since I’ve seriously updated this blog. I feel like I’ve been present for several iterations of historical costuming online spaces. Obviously I’m doing the YouTube thing now, and back when blogs were The Thing I had this. And then before that, I had a LiveJournal (anyone remember Dress Diaries? God… Read more: Changes
  • St Birgitta Interlaced Stitch Tutorial
    I published this tutorial over on the Ko-Fi because I said I’d put it up there, but I wanted to make sure I posted it here too, just to make sure it’s archived properly. Enjoy! For my supplies I am going to need some fabric, a needle, a bunch of colored embroidery thread, an embroidery… Read more: St Birgitta Interlaced Stitch Tutorial
  • Medieval Snow Day
    It snowed yesterday! It rarely does this at all in Texas, and almost never this much. I had to take advantage of the situation and get some photos of me in all my wool outerwear.
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