Viking CSI
So I'm working on a Viking Women's Clothes 101 class, but am thinking of adding ":CSI" to the title. There was some incredible sleuthing that these researchers did in putting together a Viking woman's outfit out of tiny bits of thousand year old fabric, the metal bits in the graves, and the notes from the archaeologists in 1873 who dug everything up, but were mostly interested in boats and the shiny bits. One note refers to a pair of brooches 'one cleaned' - clearly they didn't think there was any value in the gunk surrounding the pretty metal object- they scraped the layers off and washed away the residue to get at the shiny bit.
Sadly, gaudy tablet-woven trim brocaded with metal threads was stylin' back then. I like the gaudy bling, but gaudy trim is, well, gaudy trim. I'm going to chart out the really easy and not-too-tacky bit of one of the tablet weaving patterns in the Hagg chapter. I can do that with just string, and I can do it with a threaded-in pattern (I think). I'm not up to turning cards individually yet. There are people with videos on YouTube who do some amazing card weaving, but I need to get my general technique to a respectable level (even tension and such) before trying anything fancy.
I want to do some sewing, but am planning to wait on new clothing until I know where my weight is going. I need to finish that 14th century hood anyway. The buttons I made are too big, I think - I will make smaller ones, but that'll happen on a day when my hands hurt less.
Hurricanes suck. I'm just saying.
Sadly, gaudy tablet-woven trim brocaded with metal threads was stylin' back then. I like the gaudy bling, but gaudy trim is, well, gaudy trim. I'm going to chart out the really easy and not-too-tacky bit of one of the tablet weaving patterns in the Hagg chapter. I can do that with just string, and I can do it with a threaded-in pattern (I think). I'm not up to turning cards individually yet. There are people with videos on YouTube who do some amazing card weaving, but I need to get my general technique to a respectable level (even tension and such) before trying anything fancy.
I want to do some sewing, but am planning to wait on new clothing until I know where my weight is going. I need to finish that 14th century hood anyway. The buttons I made are too big, I think - I will make smaller ones, but that'll happen on a day when my hands hurt less.
Hurricanes suck. I'm just saying.