as Lavena is, I would be interested in:
Classes to ask questions in:
Casting Period Type
Decorative Embroidery for Garb
Egg Tempera for Panel Painting & Polychrome Objects
Sun 5 10:00 AM AS13 Modern Materials/Period Shoes
Edward Newman
Sun 5 11:00 AM AS09 – Cotehardie (GFD) Fitting demo
Alison Wodehalle
Sun 5 12:00 PM AS04 Viking Domestic Architecture
Ragnvaeig Snorradottir – handout
Sun 5 2:00 PM AS 01
How to make a girdle book
Angharad verch Glyndwr o Llangollan
Mon 6 11:00 AM AS 09 Survey of styles of sleeves used on the GFD (Cotehardie) – handout
Mon 6 2:00 PM AS 05 Care and Repair of Canvas Tentage
Elias Gedney
Mon 6 5:00 PM AS 06 Pennsic Without a Cooler
Elizabeth of Dendermonde
Mon 6 8:00 PM AS 13 Medieval Oil Lamps
Bedwyr Danwyn
Tues 7 2pm AS 6 Medieval Egyptian Socks
Susanna Lockheart
Tues 7 3 pm Camp Turkish Bath
Nisaa Karahisari
Tues 7 8:00 PM AS 07 Archaeological Textiles: A Slide Presentation
Seelie – Flax?
Wed 8 9:00 AM AS 09 Why thee should shun roving!
Forba of Aberdeen – Enable a much finer thread, to ‘spin in the grease’? Spin flax? Process flax?
Wed 8 5:00 PM AS 06 Stocking Your Nethers: A Guide to Period Knitted Hose
Susanna Lockheart – handout
Thurs 9 9:00 AM AS 09 Beginner Floor Spindle
Forba of Aberdeen – ???Floor Spindle??
Thurs 9 2:00PM AS 08 Printed Textiles in Period
Magdalena de Hazebrouck – Print on dark fabric?
Thurs 9 5:00 PM AS 09 What Goes on Under a Sicilian Woman’s Dress? The Bare Essentials Caitilin inghean Tomais ui Dhuibihir
General questions:
Flax growing conditions
How/where to find/make flax processing tools
How to spin fine threads of flax: weight of spindle?, pre-drafting/Egyptian splicing technique necessary? wetspinning?
Special techniques for dyeing linen?
Resources for permaculture in hot climates – clothing, food production?
Info on ‘bush skills’ – weaving out of palm fronds, other natural materials
Specific
shopping:
Shuttles appropriate for 24" wide 4-harness loom, weaving wool and linen (2)
Wool ribbon for Pumpkin Dress hat
Heavy-weight felted wool for SoftTrunk construction, any color.