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Had v. good time at Winter War. Enjoyed playing some music with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snooness and other Borealis musicians - next time must remember to bring my own recorders. Also enjoyed hanging out with minyata, jopickles and others later in the evening, though was a bit disappointed there was no dancing.
Sunday
May have had too good of a time at Winter War :(
This Week
Have received new book: Textiles and Clothing 1150-1450, Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard and Kay Staniland, eds., Boydell Press, Suffolk, UK, 2001.
The Museum of London puts out lots of cool publications (and is also very cool to visit, if you get the chance). I have a couple of cookbooks that I picked up there, one for 16th century English cookery and another for 17th century English cookery. This book was on a bibliography for an Ithra course taught a few years ago by Maitresse Cecille de Beumund of Seagirt on period stitching techniques, and since I am trying to put together a similar course I decided to order this book.
It describes various textile fragments found in excavations throughout London and includes descriptions of spinning, weaving, dyeing, sewing techniques and tailoring. There is a lot of detailed description, some of it too technical for me, but I still think it is a cool enough book that I have now ordered two others in the same series, one on shoes and pattens and another on dress accessories. I think this book would be even more useful for someone whose areas of specialty are spinning, weaving, and/or mid-period costuming.
Top three new things I learned were:
1. Lacing holes were worked around twice in order to ensure adequate coverage (rather than trying to get stitches very tight together for only one pass around the hole)
2. Instead of being sewn onto the fabric on one side and then passed through buttonholes on the other side to fasten a garment, buttons could have their shanks passed through the buttonholes on the right side and be fastened to a lacing on the wrong side. Although I am not too sure how this worked to fasten the garment - were there lacing holes on the other side?
3. Garments could be edged with tablet woven braid that was worked directly onto the edge of the garment. This is seriously cool and I would love to see someone finish the edges of a garment this way!
Upcoming Goals
I would really like to finish my navy blue doublet this weekend so I have something new to wear for Beltaine. I am also going to try to do an embroidered hat of the type shown in the new Janet Arnold so I don't have to wear the hairnet that Francis has threatened us all with for the kitchen at Beltaine. Assuming I get the doublet done, I will then try to finish the trunk hose so I actually have one of my pieces of camping garb done for May Crown.
Edited to Add:
The linen previously ordered online has also arrived. Right now it is a bit stiff, so I am washing it for the second time. I should have enough for three new smocks plus some trimmings. After a desultory amount of research online I have come to the conclusion that I can wear a falling band instead of a ruff and still be before 1600. Whether I can have sailed so far around the world that I got shipwrecked somewhere in east Asia before 1600 is another question. Sshh.
Had v. good time at Winter War. Enjoyed playing some music with
snooness and other Borealis musicians - next time must remember to bring my own recorders. Also enjoyed hanging out with minyata, jopickles and others later in the evening, though was a bit disappointed there was no dancing.Sunday
May have had too good of a time at Winter War :(
This Week
Have received new book: Textiles and Clothing 1150-1450, Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard and Kay Staniland, eds., Boydell Press, Suffolk, UK, 2001.
The Museum of London puts out lots of cool publications (and is also very cool to visit, if you get the chance). I have a couple of cookbooks that I picked up there, one for 16th century English cookery and another for 17th century English cookery. This book was on a bibliography for an Ithra course taught a few years ago by Maitresse Cecille de Beumund of Seagirt on period stitching techniques, and since I am trying to put together a similar course I decided to order this book.
It describes various textile fragments found in excavations throughout London and includes descriptions of spinning, weaving, dyeing, sewing techniques and tailoring. There is a lot of detailed description, some of it too technical for me, but I still think it is a cool enough book that I have now ordered two others in the same series, one on shoes and pattens and another on dress accessories. I think this book would be even more useful for someone whose areas of specialty are spinning, weaving, and/or mid-period costuming.
Top three new things I learned were:
1. Lacing holes were worked around twice in order to ensure adequate coverage (rather than trying to get stitches very tight together for only one pass around the hole)
2. Instead of being sewn onto the fabric on one side and then passed through buttonholes on the other side to fasten a garment, buttons could have their shanks passed through the buttonholes on the right side and be fastened to a lacing on the wrong side. Although I am not too sure how this worked to fasten the garment - were there lacing holes on the other side?
3. Garments could be edged with tablet woven braid that was worked directly onto the edge of the garment. This is seriously cool and I would love to see someone finish the edges of a garment this way!
Upcoming Goals
I would really like to finish my navy blue doublet this weekend so I have something new to wear for Beltaine. I am also going to try to do an embroidered hat of the type shown in the new Janet Arnold so I don't have to wear the hairnet that Francis has threatened us all with for the kitchen at Beltaine. Assuming I get the doublet done, I will then try to finish the trunk hose so I actually have one of my pieces of camping garb done for May Crown.
Edited to Add:
The linen previously ordered online has also arrived. Right now it is a bit stiff, so I am washing it for the second time. I should have enough for three new smocks plus some trimmings. After a desultory amount of research online I have come to the conclusion that I can wear a falling band instead of a ruff and still be before 1600. Whether I can have sailed so far around the world that I got shipwrecked somewhere in east Asia before 1600 is another question. Sshh.
