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passamezzo.bsky.social
#Shoes Rare and Good in All.
A #17thCentury #Scottish #lute solo from the Straloch Lutebook, c1627-29
Sam Brown: Lute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxXg...
Supported by @continuoconnect.bsky.social & @antiquaries.bsky.social
#earlymusic #earlymodern #historicaldress #materialculture #greensleevesproject
Shoes Rare and Good in All
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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August 30, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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
Really lovely to bring the #greensleevesproject to
@chalkefestival.bsky.social yesterday with @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social. We also played a bit of pre-show music for @callumcoates.bsky.social and Emma Bown's cue-scripted production of Macbeth.
Grateful that it was cooler than the previous days
June 29, 2026 at 3:52 PM
earlymusicto.bsky.social
#Tudor ballad #Greensleeves
youtu.be/IAHnmqSQdDw?...
thought of as romantic song assoc w #HenryVIII & #AnneBoleyn... 1st ref 1580 during #ElizabethI reign
#Passamezzo
#GreensleevesProject ChurchStrettonArtsFest
-exh: clothes+acc www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHn...
-wkshp: #Elizabethan embroidery&linen
June 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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
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
Really looking forward to giving the EDC Annual Lecture tomorrow.
I'll be talking about the #greensleevesproject

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-greens...

#earlymodern #earlymodernsky #earlymusic #historicaldance #materialculture #tudor #tudors #textiles
February 27, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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
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
Looking forward to talking with Bernadette Banner about the #GreensleevesProject for the #RoyalSchoolofNeedlework next Wednesday
royal-needlework.org.uk/product/ttot...

#greensleeves #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #tudor #tudors #materialculture #onlinetalk
TTOT188 With Gold Embroidered Gorgeously: The Greensleeves Project
Join historian and musician, Tamsin Lewis and fashion historian, Bernadette Banner to find out: who was Greensleeves, and what might she have worn?
royal-needlework.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:45 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Really looking forward to talking about the #GreensleevesProject to the Embroiderers' Association of Canada on 7 December.
eac-acb.ca/event/speake...

#earlymodern #onlinetalk #greensleeves #materialculture #earlymusic #interdisciplinary
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday:
This time last year, we had our first fitting for the #GreensleevesProject. Here is Oliver looking at the choice of trim for Lady #Greensleeves' gown.

#throwbackthursdays #catsofgreensleeves #materialculture #costumefitting

greensleevesproject.uk

@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Thy music still to play and sing
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

Come and see these clothes, and learn about the #GreensleevesProject at the Medieval Dress and Textile Society #conference on Saturday
www.medats.org.uk/events/green...

#TudorTuesday #earlymusic #materialculture #earlymodern #tudor
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#tudortuesday
Thy peticote of Sendall right
Lady #Greensleeves, is dressed in a petticoat of sendal (fine silk) over her red woollen petticoat.
Find out more at the MEDATS #greensleevesproject #conference & #exhibition on 22 November
www.medats.org.uk/events/green...
#materialculture #tudors #tudor
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#TudorTuesday:
'I bought thee kerchers to thy head,
that were wrought fine and gallantly'

@callumcoates.bsky.social (The lover) presents an embroidered kercher to Lady #Greensleeves

greensleevesproject.uk

#earlymodern #materialculture #greensleevesproject #tudor #tudors #historicaldress
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
earlymusicto.bsky.social
#Greensleeves #MyLadyGreensleeves
youtu.be/IAHnmqSQdDw?... assoc w #HenryVIII & #AnneBoleyn... but 1st ref 1580 #ElizabethI
EloisePennycott &CallumCoates
dir TamsinLewis
#Passamezzo
#GreensleevesProject ChurchStrettonArtsFest2026 'WithGoldEmbroideredGorgeously' www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHn...
September 30, 2025 at 7:00 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
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
The Tudor Tailor have created a kit to make your very own Greensleeves fashion doll...

shop.tudortailor.com/products/kit...

@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social #tudor #tudortailor #tudors #tudorfashion #historicalclothing #earlymodern #greensleeves #greensleevesproject
Kit for a 'Greensleeves' doll
• Kit for one 11½ inch (29cm) doll and clothing• Made exclusively for The Tudor Tailor This kit for a charming 16th century style Tudor doll was developed using research undertaken to recreate the dol...
shop.tudortailor.com
July 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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
Thy garters fringed with the golde,
And siluer aglets hanging by,
Which made thee blithe for to beholde,
And yet thou wouldst not loue me.

www.greensleevesproject.uk

@callumcoates.bsky.social

#tudor #tudors #earlymodern #materialculture #historicalcostume #greensleeves #greensleevesproject
June 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Ivan also worked with us on the #GreensleevesProject, making 'dainties orderly' for Lady #Greensleeves, and you can hear him talking about #Tudor #sweetmeats, and about gingerbread too at our forthcoming #conference at @antiquaries.bsky.social on 4 July.
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...

#ivanday
Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture - Society of Antiquaries of London
This interdisciplinary conference takes the iconic sixteenth century ballad Greensleeves as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early...
www.sal.org.uk
June 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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
"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!

greensleevesproject.uk

#TudorTuesday #earlymusic #tudor #tudors #greensleevesproject
May 13, 2025 at 9:19 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 :)
greensleevesproject.uk
#earlymusic #earlymodern #tudor #tudors
May 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM