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Have you seen any of my tutorials on these dances? 😊

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Thank you for watching the clip and the full video!'🥰 and also, it is a very hard lesson I learned from personal experience! 🤣

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Thank you for that extremely excellent question! I don't know if you've seen, but I actually just released a video on a multi-part series discussing exactly how I go about reconstructing a dance from a medieval manuscript.😊 ruclips.net/video/vnOWjC1101M/видео.html

To answer your questions in the space allowed on a RUclips comment😅, the process is very conjectural, and also very interdisciplinary because it takes an understanding of Music both historical and modern. It also means that there could be and are often multiple versions of the same dance because different researchers have interpreted the written word differently. Your points about people doing dances differently even when watching the same video, or not learning it well at all without a live instructor, all hit the nail on the head when it comes to the challenge of reconstructing dance from a manuscript written often in a dead language or a Dead version of a language. As for musical notation, by the 15th century it was relatively standardized although not necessarily in the way that music is now. But it was certainly mostly recognizable as notation as we would understand it. There are sometimes some issues with the clarity of the notation, which can lead lead to different interpretations, put music Reconstruction from the 15th century is certainly imfinitely less conjectural than say music Reconstruction from ancient Greece. 😅

@@thecreativecontessa Thank you, I will have to check it out. Sometimes I miss things when it's a very stressful part of the academic year (like now - why do I have my students doing final projects?? 😂).

@@thecreativecontessa Oh, that is really interesting, that they had some kind of musical notation by then. Maybe it grew out of the "wandering bard"/troubadour tradition? Or maybe travelers to other lands wanted to hear the same lovely music played at home? Thank you for taking the time to write such an in-depth response!

​@@kerriemckinstry-jett8625I totally understand how life gets so busy, especially when the end of the semester rolls around!😅

Thank you! And thank you for taking the time to comment! 😊

🤣 not yet, but who knows?

The song does not tell us - talk about a cliffhanger! But the implied prognosis is not good! 😅

It's a slow boil, and possibly one that is more obvious to the people doing the dance than to observers! 😅

Thank you for sharing your approaches and experience! Those are some great tips for growing one's skill while maintaining a tangible sense of fun and achievement! In a modern world that is accustomed to the level of perfection that can be achieved with machine sewing and Automation in general, people forget that historically, even the garments worn by great medieval/Renaissance potentates were rarely perfect even upon completion. The extant garments that we have illustrate that perfectly straight seams and invisible finishes were almost never achieved, if even targeted at all. Not to mention the post factum repairs and adjustments that were clearly made to actually fit the wearer. And of course when one is trying to recreate a historical garment that has no complete extant original and certainly no step by step instructions having survived from the 15th century, one must reinvent the wheel and Learn by doing as one goes along. Honestly I think that's why I'm more interested in medieval Fashions and earlier, because there are more Mysteries to be solved through creative and even sometimes destructive learning, versus later periods where we have perfectly preserved entirely extant ensembles. 😅

Thank you, Tommaso! It would be so lovely to have you join us at Pennsic, some year! :-)

@@thecreativecontessa If i could set foot on American soil.

well, to be frank, by next summer, I might not want to set foot on American soil...We shall see...

@@thecreativecontessabeautiful dance & great channel. Thank you so much ❤

@@thecreativecontessa I just it notify me.

This Friday/Saturday (depending on one's time zone). :-) ruclips.net/user/liveiPUkyJsmhwU?feature=share

Thank you! It's one of my favorite styles of gown. 😊

Thank you! I'm going to be doing a livestream discussion of what went wrong and right with making the dress. 😊

But the funny thing is that the Almighty algorithm has not favored it at all! 🤣

@@thecreativecontessa That's not fair! This totally deserves the blessing of the cat gods! You didn't shoo the kitty away, so you're good peoples! Keep in mind, I think my 400+ views on my cat video are amazing. Hahaha I know not everyone thinks those are high numbers, but I do.

As for my innere Schweinehund, let's just say that current circumstances micro and macro keep feeding him and causing sleepless nights, but I've been fighting the good fight apace!

As for the performance, the questers were pretty convinced. 😂

You are too right, and thank you for the reminder!

I didn't think of it either. I observed it after making seams that were way too strong and having to perform complex reconstructive surgery on the fabric in order to fix the resulting tears. 🤣

Thank you for that great question! In this case, it is a practical reason of not having thread in a closer color in my supplies. That being said, the few extant garments that we have from this period in which the threads have been preserved indicate that just as often as not undyed or unmatching thread was used rather than a matching one, especially for the interior seams. As it turns out, the white threads barely show on the surface in any case because of the "absorbent" nature of this weave of wool.

😪 it is frustrating! I am thinking of doing a video on repairing ripped fabric, using various rips as an example.

She means you should use a reasonable amount of tension. If you're pulling the stitches tight, the stiches pull on woven threads of the fabric and destroy it.

Thank you for that question! What @EvaCryptic said, plus not using thread that is too strong and heavy for the fabric. After a while, one develops a feel for this sort of thing, but I suppose that one can also test a swatch of the fabric, doing a pull test to see if the fabric or the seam rips. In any case, your thread should mirror the gauge of the threads of the fabric, meaning finer thread for thinner fabrics, etc. Does that make sense?

Thank you for commenting! So pleased you found the tips helpful! 😊

Exactly! Thank you for sharing that great parallel example! 😊

Glad it is helpful! Thank you for commenting! 😊

Thanks for watching! 😊

It’s definitely a beautiful place to escape to, for a little while.😊

May it prevent you from having to cry unnecessary tears of frustration. 😅

I'll actually be discussing and showing what has happened during my livestream post-mortem on the gown this coming weekend. In short, though, the reinforcement may have been necessary...😅

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