Archive for April, 2007
The textile guild of the Barony of the Rhydderich Hael inherited several huge boxes of fabric and sewing equipment from THL Caitlin Dierdre, who lost her fight with breast cancer late last year. Last night at guild meeting we did a preliminary sorting through the boxes and found yards and yards and yards of [...]
I’m reading Home: A Short History of an Idea for my dissertation, and it’s full of information about domestic life in the middle ages.
Rybczynski, Witold. 1986. Home: A Short History of an Idea. New York: Viking Penguin Inc.
(Amazon – Powells)
I’m reading it for information about the development of the concept of personal [...]
I just finished destroying my first official A&S entry. The entry was my red cyclas, which I made five and a half years ago. I was so very proud of it at the time. Now I look at it and think, what was I THINKING? Long arm openings, ok. But the skirt was nowhere NEAR [...]
I ended up deciding just to flap the edges of the neckline down rather than trimming them and overlaying a facing. The primary concern there was bulk, and I think the facing would actually have been bulkier; certainly the bulk would have been less distributed. I also did some “decorative” running stitches around the edge [...]
clipped from www.nytimes.com
An Upgrade for Ye Olde History Park
Patrick Henry was sitting just to my left in the Virginia House of Burgesses as the debate raged about the events that had been following the Boston Tea Party.
One doesn’t really step into the past here, or in any of the other historical villages developed after Colonial [...]
After perusing a bunch of pictures in my archives yesterday, I concluded that I had, in fact, made the slits in the body panels too short. See, for example:
Maciejowski Bible, f. 18v
Maciejowski Bible (need to check the folio numbers)
As you can see, the slits clearly come up to the waist. So [...]
Progress on Matatias’ riding tunic. I finished stitching the lining and fashion fabrics together (I did the gores last because they were the finickiest of the bunch) and then started on the actual construction (well, except for the sleeves and gussets, which I did a while back). I started with the body panels [...]
