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Because every 1580s production needs a guinea pig...
www.greensleevesproject.uk
#greensleeves #greensleevesproject #earlymodern #guineapig #tudor #tudors #earlymodernsky
February 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
kentwellhall.bsky.social
For #textiletuesday, more beautiful work from the #Greensleevesproject

#embroidery
#textilehistory
#blackwork
#Elizabethan
passamezzo.bsky.social Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · Jan 10
#greensleevesproject update!
#Greensleeves is given a number of accessories, including a #purse.
Sarah Thursfield has made this beautiful reproduction of a typical late #Elizabethan #sweetbag worked in #silk thread, with #spangles
#tudor #tudors #blackwork #earlymodern #embroidery #braid
January 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#greensleevesproject update!
Greensleeves' coif/kercher is completed. Exquisite work by Sarah Thursfield, with detailed #whitework & #cutwork #embroidery
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#tudor #tudors #historicaldress #16thCentury #elizabethan #textiles #materialculture
Supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled to be able to say that I've been given a #grant from the Janet Arnold Award by @antiquaries.bsky.social to continue my work on the #GreensleevesProject!
I have many plans, and a wonderful team to work with :)
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#earlymusic #earlymodern #tudor #tudors
May 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
And Ninya Mikhaila has finished this glorious gown 'of grossie green'
www.greensleevesproject.uk
#greensleevesproject #tudor #tudors #historicalcostume #earlymodernsky #earlymodern
February 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Delighted to be able to say that we've been awarded a grant to expand the #GreensleevesProject by recording a selection of #Tudor & #Stuart #music & #song associated with clothing.
Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity!

#earlymusic #earlymodern
September 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
katharineedgar.bsky.social
Watch the ruff carefully when she spins round - it has spangles in it and you can see them winking in the light.
#tudortuesday
#textiletuesday
#greensleevesproject
#elizabethan
#costume
#historiccostume
#dresshistory
passamezzo.bsky.social Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · Feb 24
Such a lovely day filming the Greensleeves Project.
More tomorrow
February 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Yesterday's office.
So lovely to talk about the #greensleevesproject with Bernadette Banner, for the Royal College of Needlework
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Oliver the cat inspects the green silk satin and trim options for #Greensleeves' gown of "grossie green,
thy sleeues of Satten hanging by"
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#cat #cats #tudor #tudors #earlymodern #materialculture #historicaldress #elizabethan #greensleevesproject
November 20, 2024 at 11:13 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#Tudor sweetmeats made by the amazing Ivan Day for the #greensleevesproject
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq3i...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #greensleeves #historyoffood #gingerbread #marchpane #sugarplate #tudors #16thCentury
Greensleeves Tudor Sweetmeats
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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March 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#GreensleevesProject update.

Noel Gieleghem is creating a wonderful #ruff for #Greensleeves. It has some really lovely #lace, and will have #spangles attached too - but not until the cat moves!

#historicalcostuming #historicaldress #elizabethancostume #cats
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
After all the teasers, here is the #greensleevesproject video at last. A real privilege to work with such an amazing team.

@antiquaries.bsky.social @callumcoates.bsky.social @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social @sallypointer.bsky.social
#earlymusic #earlymodern #tudor #tudor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHn...
The Greensleeves Project
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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June 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#greensleevesproject update!
#Greensleeves is given a number of accessories, including a #purse.
Sarah Thursfield has made this beautiful reproduction of a typical late #Elizabethan #sweetbag worked in #silk thread, with #spangles
#tudor #tudors #blackwork #earlymodern #embroidery #braid
January 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#GreensleevesProject update:
A short video showing work on the #embroidered smock sleeves.
Underscored by Sam Brown playing #Greensleeves on the #lute.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQ...

#earlymusic #historicaldress #blackwork #tudor #tudors #earlymodern

Supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social
Greensleeves - lute solo - Her smock "embroidered gorgeously"
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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February 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
I am in awe of my amazing collaborators!
Sarah Thursfield's work so far on #Greensleeves' "kerchers of the best...wrought fine & gallantly"
Can't wait to see the finished kercher
#tudor #greensleevesproject #embroidery #tudors #whitework #coif #historicalneedlework
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January 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
The #GreensleevesProject: Clothing in #EarlyModern Music and Song
passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr...
A short #EP, including all 18 verses of #Greensleeves... Many more pieces to follow over the next 2 years.
#earlymusic
July 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#GreensleevesProject update:
I love Sarah Thursfield's exquisite work (so far) on Greensleeves' "kerchers to thy head... wrought fine and gallantly"
#Whitework,cutwork, & drawn thread on linen.
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#earlymodern #tudor #tudors #embroidery #needlework
@antiquaries.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 3:37 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Thy #girdle of gold so red
With #pearls bedecked sumptuously
The like no other lasses had
And yet thou wouldst not love me

#Greensleeves' girdle will be on display during our conference at @antiquaries.bsky.social on 4 July

www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...

#greensleevesproject #earlymodern #tudor
June 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
An image from filming the #Greensleevesproject last month #TudorTuesday
I gaue thee iewels for thy chest, and all this cost I spent on thee.
Lady #Greensleeves can be seen here, enjoying her jewels modelling some of the clothing described in the ballad.
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#earlymodern #tudor
March 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
"Thy #music still to play and #sing, and yet thou wouldst not love me"

Lady #Greensleeves playing the #lute in a gown by @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social

FIlming still © Bernadette Banner

More to follow in June!

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#TudorTuesday #earlymusic #tudor #tudors #greensleevesproject
May 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
15 January is #NationalHatDay, so here are the words to a #17thCentury song about different sorts of hats, The Ballad Of the Caps.
From An Antidote Against Melancholy, 1669
This is just one of many #earlymodern songs about clothing that we plan to record as part of the #GreensleevesProject

#otd
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Once again, I am in awe of the creativity and skills of my amazing colleagues. So lucky to be working with such a great team on #DressingOberon, an extension of the #greensleevesproject funded by @antiquaries.bsky.social.

Constance MacKenzie is making #Oberon's waistcoats.
#earlymodern #waistcoat
August 19, 2026 at 8:20 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
This video is the first of a series describing #earlymodern #dress in #music & song. Recorded as part of the #GreensleevesProject with generous support from @continuoconnect.bsky.social & @antiquaries.bsky.social .

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpH4...

#earlymusicensemble #materialculture #dresshistory
Thomas Campion: Every Dame Affects Good Fame
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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April 17, 2026 at 8:11 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Thomas Morley: Will you buy a fine dog
From The First Booke of Ayres, 1600
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZg...
From a series of #earlymusic #videos about #dress #earlymodern England, for the #GreensleevesProject.
Recorded with support from @continuoconnect.bsky.social & @antiquaries.bsky.social
Thomas Morley: Will You Buy a Fine Dog
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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June 5, 2026 at 9:49 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#GreensleevesProject update for #WorldEmbroideryDay.
#Greensleeves is given "a smock of silk, both faire and white, with gold embrodered gorgeously"
Juliet Braidwood's work on a rose for the smock, based on Hilliard's Pelican portrait of #ElizabethI, c1575
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#Tudor
#Tudors
July 30, 2024 at 9:23 AM