Month: February 2008

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Blog draft design for Betsy and Strictly Weavers

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Hi Betsy!  (No Bess, not you.) I’ve volunteered to put together a blog for our local weaver’s guild, and have tried out my new laptop and Microsoft OneNote to design it.  Of course, this new stuff doesn’t exactly play well with the old stuff, and I can’t email my tiny mhtml file via my Yahoo! account.  Sigh. Thus it’s here.  Download blog_design_draft_1.mht If it STILL doesn’t work for you, Betsy…I’m going to print it, scan it, and send a blessed JPG.  Mercy. Those of you who play with other guilds elsewhere – if you’ve got absolutely nothing better to do … Continue reading Blog draft design for Betsy and Strictly Weavers

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Book Review – World Textiles, A Concise History

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Sorry I’ve been quiet – very busy lately with a family medical crisis, new technology, garden worrying, trying to go paperless with professional stuff, and learning about personality types.  All completely engrossing…but not very medieval. One thing emergency rooms are good for is the spending of time.  Fortunately Lavena had passed on Honnoria’s book to me ("because I do textiles when??") and I’m really glad she did. Not only because it was apparently Just The Right Thing for several-hour-chunks of worrisome uncertainty and waiting, but because it’s a terrifically dense little resource, that is exactly what it claims to be.  … Continue reading Book Review – World Textiles, A Concise History

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Embroidery for other Royals

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Ta da! (Click for bigger.) Embroidery for the Trimarian Royals.  Their personal arms, as published here. I did this as a service project for our Majesties to gift to the Trimarian ones at Gulf Wars.  Now that it’s done, I really could have put them a bit farther apart…they’re meant to be cut out and applied as patches to something like a dinner napkin. Technical notes: Cotton embroidery floss, dyed with modern commercial dyes by DMC, on bleached linen.  3" square.  Stitches: Primarily bokkara couching (2 strands), with plenty of satin stitch for the badges (2 strands) and single-stranded backstitch … Continue reading Embroidery for other Royals

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Podcast: Radio 4’s In Our Time

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Since I’ve been cleaning out my del.icio.us files, I’m stumbling on some really neat stuff collected in this digital attic. I love podcasts – they help me on long drives, with computer or household drudgery.  This one, In Our Time, uses each episode to focus on the history of an idea.  Currently I have queued up: Melvyn Bragg reveals the marvel and scientific endeavor of the Renaissance court of Rudolf II in Prague. He is joined by Peter Forshaw, Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Exeter; Howard Hotson, Lecturer in Modern … Continue reading Podcast: Radio 4’s In Our Time