Leatherwork & tanning

Since 2015, I have been a member of the Ukrainian historical reenactment club Chorna Halych. Until 2019, together with my club, I took an active part in historical festivals in Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Slovakia.

I have studied Archaeology (MA) of North-Western Europe and Heritage Management and (Medieval) History (BA) at Leiden University. From a young age I have been involved with re-enactment of the Napoleonic Wars and Dutch Revolt/Eighty Years War.

I have been a Co- Director of Ancient Wessex Network CIC for 14 years, We put on demonstrations and displays of craftwork from Pre-History. I work mainly with Bronze, making mostly artifacts from the Bronze Age.

I enjoy ancient history and learning about technology that people used in their daily lives. I have had the privilege to take a class under Greg Nunn in flintknapping.

Interested primarily in the technology and crafts of the paleolithic period.

Current interests include making and using reproductions of embroidered leather shoes, bone ice skates, and functional leather shoes, as well as demonstrating them, studying their effectiveness, and teaching others about them.

Hi! My name is Stephanie Vesseur, working in living history since 1999. Sustainability, prehistoric plants and experimental archeology are my main interests. I do love to work with wool, hides, and fibres.

Started back in 2010 as a founder member of the Ukrainian living history association Varuforos, which represented the military society of Kyiv in the mid-10th century.

I am an experimental archaeologist recently graduated from the University of Exeter, and about to embark on a PhD. I am interested in human-bird relations and the material culture of feathers that have informed and shaped human worlds.

I make insular manuscripts and their material components including parchment and pigments under period conditions.