Pennsic Loot

[judithsewstoo]

1)  "sewing kit*" from Reconstructing History - plus getting to meet both Kass and Bob! *fangirl squee!*
2)  Bette Hochberg books - Handspindles, Handspinner's Handbook & Fibre Facts
3)  Dressing The Past  (Centre for Textile Research - Ancient Textiles Series 3)
4)  Medieval Clothing and Textiles volume 1
5) Cloth & Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England AD 450 - 700
6)  One pair linen stockings - in "blurple" - a blueish purple
7)  Four yards light blue linen, Four yards of a darker blue linen and one yard of white (handkerchief weight) linen
8)  Turkish drop spindle
9)  Two hand-dyed silk bells
10) Four inch rigid heddle (for weaving the headband on my not-yet-built warp-weighted loom
11) Two small packets of woad, a bag of madder root and weld for dyeing experimentation, pamphlet on woad
12) Linen tester (8X) (and a sample of a neat weave in linen)

* Sewing kit - Two bronze needles, medieval sewing guide, Bockens linen thread (60/2 in pink and purple) and a beeswax block

The best part of it all was getting to meet three people in person I respect - Eithni (my foster-Laurel), Kass and Bob