Oxford University Academic Dress: My Revisions

For some, the academicals of the University of Oxford is a mix-and-match of incoherencies and chaos. However, what some of them do not know is that Oxford is based on a system of rank rather than ‘faculty colours’. One hood could represent a couple of degrees rather than just one. They indicate the degree holders [...]

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Fellowship of the Burgon Society

Recently, I have been made a Fellow of the Burgon Society (FBS) through examination of my submission in form of a dissertation about the history and practice of lace, gimp and braid use to trim academic gowns in the UK and Ireland. It was a last minute submission and I managed to get it passed [...]

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Some academic dress I’ve made (2007-2011)

Being a robemaker, I can make academic gowns, hoods and caps to order. I have progressively been using better materials and techniques to make them each time. Although my output is low, I attempt to make the best as possible. Here are a few of the stuff I have made over the years: This was [...]

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Hong Kong Academic Dress – A dilemma of identity? [part 2]

Part 1 was written two years ago and has since been updated. I will now carry on from where I left off. [香港理工大學] Hong Kong Polytechnic University was established in 1972 and received accreditation in 1994. A quick search comes up with this page: https://www28.polyu.edu.hk/cpce_grad/html/grad_dress.htm. It can be seen that the gowns are American in [...]

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Mortarboards: a short guide

If you are in need of a mortarboard (or trencher or square cap), here is some advice which may be of help. There are two varieties, rigid skull and folding skull. The former is the best whilst the latter is for mere convenience. There are also two other types: elasticated and lace-up; these I will [...]

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C. H. Wolfenbloode

For those that don’t know, this is my official robemaker’s website: http://www.chwolfenbloode.co.uk/ It was called ‘Bingley Robemakers’ and ‘Warren, Ward & Penry-Jones’. I changed it to C. H. Wolfenbloode because it is less of a mouthful and also because Wolfenbloode is my NSC alias. The website shows examples of my work as well as ordering [...]

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Hoods in the liripipeline

1. Member of the New Sheridan Club [MNSC] (unofficial) *COMPLETED* London full-shape [f3] black stuff/silk lined red watered silk faced 3″ and bound all edges silver grey watered silk

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Charlie’s Classification of Academic Lace

In the spirit of the Groves Classification of Academic Dress Patterns, I need something similar for academic lace… This is not a definite list; there are dates and other things to sort out.

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Invention: Academic ‘False-cap’

There has been uproar recently in the academic world, KCL in particular, about the wearing of caps at graduations (I’ll restrict this to such an event as at other times one can put a cap on outside the jurisdiction without being arrested by the University Police). For some institutions, they do not prescribe a (suitable) [...]

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University of Malta gown design competition

http://www.um.edu.mt/alumni/notices/gowndesign ===== University of Malta Gown design competition Spec draft 1

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