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- Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:42 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Frilled Veils
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2979
Re: Frilled Veils
This is part of a research group study that set up many years back, nice to see that it is available online now. If you're particularly interested in frilled veils, then this blog - http://m-silkwork.blogspot.com/ is the place to go - Isis was part of the original group and went on to write her thes...
- Wed May 18, 2011 10:27 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Arming points
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14122
Re: Arming points
Finger braiding, yes definitely, takes longer, and when I have tried to sell the points made that way, they didn't go ( could be down to colour/something else) I have always sold sets of points which are fingerloop braided - and, must say that because I have been doing them for so long find them wa...
- Wed May 11, 2011 10:18 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Regency Pineapple Reticule
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2528
Re: Regency Pineapple Reticule
I second that Lucy!
Gorgeous work as ever.
Gorgeous work as ever.
- Mon May 09, 2011 11:41 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Passementerie buttons and how to make them
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2254
Re: Passementerie buttons and how to make them
Not my era, but gorgeous Thanks! Although, if you ever need to do anything for the clergy - they are still using the Death' s head and variations on their dress -(only these days alot are in plastic, (!) unless specially commissioned!) so the chances are that they'd have still been hand-made until ...
- Wed May 04, 2011 10:29 am
- Forum: 1485-1603
- Topic: Elizabethan knitted garters...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3200
Re: Elizabethan knitted garters...
The word knit can also mean 'to work' or ' to knot' or similar variations in original documents, so he may not have actually meant something that was knitted as we know it. (just to confuse you!)
- Wed May 04, 2011 10:02 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Passementerie buttons and how to make them
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2254
Passementerie buttons and how to make them
Many of you are familiar with the silkwork and trimmings that I create. After some time off due to ill health, I am back and have begun to release instructional DVDs giving away the passementerie secrets I have learnt. The first two titles in the series are now available - Making Buttons & Making Mo...
- Thu May 13, 2010 11:03 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Bullion Fringe
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2146
Re: Bullion Fringe
Thanks Sophia! And yes, I can weave some - would need to know what the header was like though, as some have fairly intricate patterns, but getting hold of the wool in the first place wouldn't be a problem, and if its a plain header, not a problem at all. If you're looking to experiment on your own, ...
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:39 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Books on History of Tablet Weaving
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5750
Re: Books on History of Tablet Weaving
Totally agree - Collingwood is the Bible of TW and if you never have another book you'll still manage just fine! A huge range of techniques are shown - so, when new bands come to light you can use his work as a reference to the method used for weaving. Although if you do want to carry on with brocad...
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:00 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Books on History of Tablet Weaving
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5750
Re: Books on History of Tablet Weaving
Yes, Tak V Bowes is fingerloop braiding! We (Soper Lane) have done a few booklets on medieval tablet weaving - currently out of print of a few of the titles (should have more in stock around July). Email me if you need to Sally. There's not a great deal which really goes into detail about historic t...
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:38 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Belt for Burgundian gown
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2284
Re: Belt for Burgundian gown
It's also worth remembering that the fancier the materials, the more expensive the girdle. Therefore, the wearer is less likely to actually be doing things such as bending and will certainly be sitting with good posture. The extant finely woven silk girdles do not show any evidence of having been li...
- Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:52 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: C18th bling
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1775
Re: C18th bling
Leek buttons. There simply aren't enough of them in re-enactment in my opinion.... 

- Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:21 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Tie-dyed Dutch sailor's cap 1650-1800
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1715
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:33 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Most recent cap reconstruction
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2651
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:07 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: hart's head tablet weaving pattern
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1507
If you fancy trying to make a pattern yourself you can download a free bit of software to do it here - http://www.guntram.co.za/tabletweaving/gtt.htm Its really quite good once you get the hang of it. The biggest thing to bear in mind will be your own level of experience, alot of animal representati...
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:38 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: wool braid
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4422
- Wed May 06, 2009 9:32 am
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Tudor project diary etc
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5254
- Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:43 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Silk and braid question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2113
The braid may well be both gold and silver with a bit of silk to hold it all together. The pic's really not detailed enough online to say positively. The only thing you'd have to bear in mind when choosing is that anything with real silver is that it will tarnish. I'll let someone else help you out ...
- Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:00 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Combat/battle braiding?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6436
- Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:09 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Combat/battle braiding?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6436
Hi Lucy, I first heard about this method of making a braid at events, etc - through an SCA contact, fairly recently. I haven't yet tried it myself (so many other things on at the mo'!) so I don't know what the braid looks like. Without that, I can't even speculate on if the braid is 'period', or sim...
- Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:47 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Bullion Fringing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1174
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:37 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Early Tudor Cap
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5011
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:31 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Heaving Corseted Bosomry
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2560
- Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:54 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: 15c calligrapher's pattern book
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1605
15c calligrapher's pattern book
The BL are trying to raise money to aquire a pattern book, this one is a calligrapher's book with alphabets and borders (Jorge if you haven't seen this you MUST) - some terrific pics can be found here http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/ ... ury-style/.
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:25 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: 1630's Women's Jackets/Bodices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3060
Some wonderful pics of an embroidered jacket can be found here - http://harmanhay.livejournal.com/
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:02 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: For the past two weeks...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1864
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:23 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: pretty colours
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3056
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:08 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: pretty colours
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3056
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:44 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Tablet Weaving Recommendation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1640