Camel Saddle Needs a Seat Cover

I have this camel saddle sitting around useless…it needs a new leather top. I have no idea what sort of culture/time I'd want to research for a camel saddle. Indian?  (Pushkar Camel Festival) Googled "camel saddle 16th century".  That could be cool. Judging from similar new 'camel saddle stools/chairs' for sale, and the label in French on the bottom, maybe this is a Moroccan object.  That's okay, too…but now I need some motifs. Continue reading Camel Saddle Needs a Seat Cover

Current events update: Gma, Gustav, and event schedule

Hi all – Just a quickie to close some loops: My grandmother Myra died Aug 11.  She was 85, had metastasized cancer and had wanted to go since 1995, when my grandfather Pi died.  I'm doing okay – had a rough July and August, and just this week sort of turned a corner where the pain seems more distant. I'm not attending our local today/tomorrow because of her death – there's Stuff to move, and Labor Day weekend was the first good opportunity for everyone's schedules.  A bit frustrating, because, as all of you know, I'd be in the thick … Continue reading Current events update: Gma, Gustav, and event schedule

Silk & silver tabletwoven trim

Okay, so it's been ages.  Here's an excuse… And there's going to be more… These are reproductions of tablet-woven trim from Spies, Nancy. Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands. How to weave brocade as well as the history of its heyday in Medieval times. More books here. The completed gray above is Page 163, "Based on the amice of Andreas Sunesson, Archbishop of Lund, 12th/13th century.  The black warp is for Page 182, "Band on a relic bag, 13th century."  All thread is silk, or silver 'jap' thread (real silver that will tarnish!).  Technique … Continue reading Silk & silver tabletwoven trim