More possibly useful things from the lists, apologies for not getting who posted this: Have you seen the summary that Shelagh has already put online? http://www.shelaghlewins.com/reenactment/hedeby_apron/hedeby_apron.htm It really does cover about 99% of what Hägg says about apron dresses http://needleprayse.webcon.net.au/research/index.html Continue reading Hedeby apron dress
Since I've started back to school, I've not been starting much new, though still keeping an eye on possibly useful items that come up on the lists. From Norsetalk2: Christopher wrote: >What would be a period way to a veg tanned leather belt red? There are a number of extant early and medieval recipes for dyeing leather red. The most common dyestuff I've seen referred to for that purpose was brazilwood, but madder was also used. There is an extant Frankish belt in the Arnegunde grave; it's very elaborate, with cutwork and gilded parchment and a big gilt bronze buckle. … Continue reading Red-tanned leather
"Beowulf": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBaSqO7n9U "The Vikings" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvJ2P0giVc "William the Conqueror": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ8A5gRe_Dw Apparently these are part of a series – they're wonderful. (School/work is going really well – but yes, it's taking away from the craftwork/blog while I adjust. Honnora's diamond twill apron is nearly done – just lacks straps.) Continue reading Hysterical historical video mashups
The Viking, er Saxon* and I went to MGT, and tried out the wool geteld as a pavilion, with one side propped up. (*He's decided to switch sides and move back in time to meet me. Looks like I get to avoid making myself a Viking apron for good!) Our friends Vladimir and Illaria sat with us, and brought rugs and their very comfy upholstered chairs. Besides the upholstery, I really like how the high backs fill in the vertical wall of the tent, visually. I'm wanting to find more pictures of people seated for more chairy ideas. We … Continue reading MGT 2010
(The cat checks to make sure I am not planning Fricassee d'Feline.) This is the first in a collection I am making of ceramic cooking pots, in an effort to use more period gear on site. Although I admittedly started this project motivated by appearance, I am learning that Ceramics May Be Just Better, aided and abetted by Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking. Pomairewaire is from Pomaire, Chile, and I bought this pot from Earthfare, which is a grocery chain that will possibly be the death of my favorite health foods coop in Tallahassee. Yesterday the pot debuted brilliantly. … Continue reading Pomaireware bean pot debut!
When I wear a sari, I generally wear a tight, knee-length kaccha-stylewrap based on the instructions on the sarisafari website:http://www.sarisafari.com/howkaccha.html Here’s a picture of me fresh out of the kitchen, with a localproto-Indian:http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h182/icbhod/Andi%20at%20Trimarian%20Fall%20Coronation/100_3293.jpg I don’t think this wrap is right, I think it should be more like theKhandala wrap, seen here:http://www.cbmphoto.co.uk/saris/phsariMH.html I call this the “flower seller’s wrap” but I’ll be damned if I canremember where I got that term. This wrap is the basis of my 12thcentury Kalinga/Eastern Ganga Dynasty servant kit. The use of thisspecific wrap is based on my interpretation of line drawings in FashionStyles of Ancient … Continue reading Bibliography: Indian
What to do with a small batch of leftover black dye? I needed to dye a bit of fringe leftover from the first diamond twill, black. Small pot of RIT. I'm inordinately proud of this idea – the point is to make my braid look like a bell-rope, like this: Tassels everywhere!!! (This kit improvement is motivated by helping serve Madhavi's super-authentic Indian feast at Trimaris' 25th year. My kit has a LONG way to go, before it looks as good as this, but that's part of the fun.) Cotton dyes incredibly quickly – no wonder it replaced linen … Continue reading Leftover dye
RUM was held less than an hour away this year, so I got to go. The Royal University of Meridies is the annual big teaching event for the kingdom of Meridies, and it also hosts meetings for many of the kingdom's service groups, resulting in the usual problem of too many places to be at one time, and difficult decisions for someone like me, who has her hand in too many Yahoo! lists. So I chose according to Most Pressing Responsibility, which was first that I'm the new chatelaine of Glynn Rhe, and there was a series of How To … Continue reading RUM 2010
Have I mentioned lately that Reconstructing History is awesome, even when they're not reconstructing their Google pageranking? Hope this helps, Kass. www.reconstructinghistory.com Continue reading Reconstructing History
NEW BIG HAIRY LEARNING CURVE ALERT! I've volunteered to be feastcrat/head cook for Glynn Rhe's combined A&S/fighting event, Convivium Collegialis/Wine List, held next February. As faithful readers of this blog will guess, I've had a Big Idea about how to organize my effort planning. Imagine that you come into the event, and somebody has a camp kitchen set up, with several dishes cooking. You can stand around and take perhaps a couple of hour-long classes (on the tools and the recipes) and get copies of the recipes that are being cooked. At the end of the day, everybody sits down … Continue reading Cooking pots for fifty! Or eighty! Haven’t decided…