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- Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:28 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Craftspeople
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7719
Re: Craftspeople
The cookery aspect came out of necessity, and recreating the 17th century garden is linked into that, but also because I love growing things (I used to help my grandfather in the veg garden from the age of about 5). The sewing was born from necessity too (I either couldn't afford kit, or was unimpre...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:01 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6825
Re: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
Very probably - if there's a difficult way around something, I'll find it!Colin Middleton wrote:Too simple a solution?GOK wrote:Of course Colin, why didn't I think of that?!![]()

- Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:47 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Elizabeth Wydeville:the Slandered Queen.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3588
Re: Elizabeth Wydeville:the Slandered Queen.
You mean you don't already? Jeez, how've you not had a serious accident?Jim Smith wrote:maybe I should keep my copies of the Sun in Splendour and the Princes in the Tower at opposite ends of the bookshelf...Jim Smith wrote:Or would it be like matter and anti-matter - total conversion to energy?

- Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:13 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6825
Re: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
PMed you, Lucy!
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:00 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6825
Re: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
ermm, admitting now my website is pretty far out of date, but it does show the heddles a bit... will be sorted soonish, have just bought a new camera, just need to learn how to use it, plug it into the puter, contact Kate Tiler, having found the pass words book, ( I think I put it in a drawer the l...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:34 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Elizabeth Wydeville:the Slandered Queen.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3588
Re: Elizabeth Wydeville:the Slandered Queen.
Darn, I saw the title of this and almost got excited....then I read the W word (Weir), and all hopes of an objective and unbiased book were instantly dismissed! Oh well! 

- Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:30 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6825
Re: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
Do you or anyone else here, have any idea why something which may have been invented so recently has become something to be used in an historical setting? In my head, I cannot get from "This is not C17th century" to "But I'm going to use it and tell people it's historically authentic"!! Is it just ...
- Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:54 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6825
Re: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
You are asking people to prove a negative, which is tricky. Not really, I was after evidence that the inkle looms which so many C17th LH-ers are using, were invented in the 1920s (although it seems that they could be late Victorian), and that the weaving sticks I've seen a lot of the same people us...
- Sun Aug 08, 2010 1:36 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6825
Re: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
What, nobody?! 

- Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:35 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6825
Weaving Sticks and Inkle Looms
Last year I read somewhere that there is no evidence of weaving sticks being used prior to the 20th century but I cannot for the life of me find the article/text again. Does anyone know of any references (preferably academic), or any articles on the subject? I've also read that the inkle looms we ha...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:24 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: help with some dye..
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2240
Re: help with some dye..
Cool - hope you get it all sorted out! 

- Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:56 am
- Forum: Traders Discussion
- Topic: PayPal for Beginners
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2926
Re: PayPal for Beginners
http://www.xe.com is your friend when it comes to converting currencies.
Do you have online banking? If so, it makes it much easier to check the deposits which Paychum will put into your account. I believe that until you have those, you won't be able to use your account.
Do you have online banking? If so, it makes it much easier to check the deposits which Paychum will put into your account. I believe that until you have those, you won't be able to use your account.
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:51 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: help with some dye..
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2240
Re: help with some dye..
lads, ur only stars :) I did think on mixing the two dylons alrite, but with my luck it would go to *rse :s I dont actually know what weld looks like, but I'm sure the missus will and I'll head and check that site rite now :) again, much thanks! Here you are! http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=...
- Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:30 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: help with some dye..
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2240
Re: help with some dye..
Have you got any weld growing in your area? If not, you can buy it online . If you use it at 100% ratio (so 100g weld to 100g wool), and keep the heat under the dyebath for a couple of hours, you should get the colour you want. I managed to 'accidentally' dye a skein of alum-mordanted wool a mustard...
- Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:13 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: A History of the World (BBC) - Alfred the Great
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1374
Re: A History of the World (BBC) - Alfred the Great
Yep - good to see he's still around. I met him at my very first event back in the late 80s and being terrified of messing up (I'd heard he was a real stickler)! He proved to be a really nice guy!
I wonder what he thought of that programme though!

I wonder what he thought of that programme though!
- Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:48 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: A History of the World (BBC) - Alfred the Great
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1374
A History of the World (BBC) - Alfred the Great
Anyone see it? Pretty pants throughout really but the real icing on the cake was 20 minutes in when the presenter declared that Alfred took "The Roman city of London in 1886"
Bet Victoria wasn't at all amused by that!

Bet Victoria wasn't at all amused by that!
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:39 pm
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Help needed with writing a novel about the English civil war
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6966
Re: Help needed with writing a novel about the English civil war
Thanks Gok, might take the well-trodden route to the public library first, see if they can get it, and take a look at it before buying it, I've bought quite a few English civil war books already. I only need enough info. about the roads for a few lines of description, or enough for a bit of descrip...
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:41 am
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Help needed with writing a novel about the English civil war
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6966
Re: Help needed with writing a novel about the English civil war
Public Transport in England and Wales 1580–1642 - Robert Morris - £6.
You can buy it directly from Stuart Peachey: http://www.stuart-hmaltd.com/tudor_stua ... ulture.php
Or see if Caliver Books or Paul Meekins has it.
You can buy it directly from Stuart Peachey: http://www.stuart-hmaltd.com/tudor_stua ... ulture.php
Or see if Caliver Books or Paul Meekins has it.

- Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:20 am
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Medieval Beans
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9336
Re: Medieval Beans
Do you have any frogs there? :D Something I've been doing is cutting up all my scraps of wool into half inch (or so) squares (as in fabric, not yarn, although that might work as well) and mulching around the base of the brassicas. So far, so good! I also use the hair from my hairbrush and Kevin's ha...
- Tue Jun 01, 2010 7:47 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Pillars of the Earth Maxiseries
- Replies: 0
- Views: 901
Pillars of the Earth Maxiseries
Anyone heard anything about it? http://www.bscreview.com/2010/04/the-pillars-of-the-earth-trailer-from-starz/ I know the book isn't entirely historically accurate (heheh!) but I have a huge fondness for it. I hope the series does it justice....even if it won't do history any! No idea whether we'll g...
- Tue Jun 01, 2010 7:35 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Medieval Beans
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9336
Re: Medieval Beans
How wonderful to find this thread! My partner and I are reconstructing a mid-17th century peasant labourer's garden within the grounds of a local stately home. If you're interested, I have a blog: http://gokactually.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-10-15T13:02:00%2B01:00&max-results=7 (it starts...
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:48 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Victorian Ladies Indoor caps
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3067
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:19 am
- Forum: Creative Works
- Topic: Wood ;)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5099
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:17 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Geoffrey Richardson The Popinjays
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2160
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:13 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Victorian Ladies Indoor caps
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3067
If you don't want to wait for a hard copy to become available, you could download a PDF version from here! 

- Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:16 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Digital copies of Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2828
- Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:11 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Mid late C15 womens coat?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7203
I'm with you Angie, on the chilly morsel front; I got cold on Venice Beach - California...in the middle of the summer! I do have to say however, that with proper underthings, plus overthings made of wool, I'm generally fine. It's all about the layers! Also, if you can keep your hands and tootsies wa...
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:55 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: The Lordly Ones
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1280
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:29 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: The Lordly Ones
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1280
I'm going to read the Popinjays soon-I betting he won't like them much. Having known Geoffrey, I can vouch for his loathing of "That Wydeville woman and her ilk"!! And of Margaret Beaufort, John Morton et al (have you read The Deceivers ?)! I've also read his books (well, four of them!) and yes, yo...
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:26 pm
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: How on earth did I miss this??
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2056