ok, now I am REALLY excited about heading down to the Glöta event
Some weeks back I got a FB message from a lady in the Shire of Gyllangran (Sundsvall, Sweden) asking if I would like to teach an embroidery class at their Glöta event in October. They are only six hours drive south of us, yet, somehow I have never made it to an event in that shire, so, of course, I said yes. The event happens while my mother will be here, so it is also a good excuse to take her on a road trip to see the prettiest part of the Swedish coast, which is between Umeå and Sundsvall.
Today I got another message from her, asking if I would be interested in seeing the Högom find while I was in town--apparently it is at the museum there. YES! Of course I am. I first read the book about it back when I was still living in Fairbanks (late 1990's). At the time I was working on my Master's in Geology, and found it difficult to read the published geology papers I needed for my own research, as they always put me to sleep. This book, on the other hand, I read cover to cover when I took it out from the Uni library, because it was so fascinating.
That year the university offered a Medieval History class for the first time in ages, and I signed up for it, since I had already completed all of my required geology courses for my degree. The class, of course, required that we write a paper, so I did mine on clothing, and this book was one of my main sources. I was so fascinated by the really complicated seams (two rows each of tailor's stitch and blanket stitch) depicted in the book that I did a small example seam on some scrap fabric, and sewed it to one of the pages of my paper as a figure. My teacher liked the paper so much, she asked if she could keep it (I said yes).
So, today she writes to me and says that she knows one of the archaeologists at the museum, and she can ask if we can get a behind the scenes tour and actually look at the find. I so hope that the archaeologist says yes! Of course, even if they don't have time/energy to deal with textile geeks who want a closer look, even seeing the "for the public" display sounds really really cool. Now I need only convince lord_kjar that he wants to take that Friday off of work, so we can drive south on Thursday, so that we have Friday available for museum stuff without any stress or worry...
In other cool news--I have made a good start on the Norrskensbard Cloak, and lord_kjar cut some grass from our field with a scythe to make an archery target, because he thought we needed one.
Today I got another message from her, asking if I would be interested in seeing the Högom find while I was in town--apparently it is at the museum there. YES! Of course I am. I first read the book about it back when I was still living in Fairbanks (late 1990's). At the time I was working on my Master's in Geology, and found it difficult to read the published geology papers I needed for my own research, as they always put me to sleep. This book, on the other hand, I read cover to cover when I took it out from the Uni library, because it was so fascinating.
That year the university offered a Medieval History class for the first time in ages, and I signed up for it, since I had already completed all of my required geology courses for my degree. The class, of course, required that we write a paper, so I did mine on clothing, and this book was one of my main sources. I was so fascinated by the really complicated seams (two rows each of tailor's stitch and blanket stitch) depicted in the book that I did a small example seam on some scrap fabric, and sewed it to one of the pages of my paper as a figure. My teacher liked the paper so much, she asked if she could keep it (I said yes).
So, today she writes to me and says that she knows one of the archaeologists at the museum, and she can ask if we can get a behind the scenes tour and actually look at the find. I so hope that the archaeologist says yes! Of course, even if they don't have time/energy to deal with textile geeks who want a closer look, even seeing the "for the public" display sounds really really cool. Now I need only convince lord_kjar that he wants to take that Friday off of work, so we can drive south on Thursday, so that we have Friday available for museum stuff without any stress or worry...
In other cool news--I have made a good start on the Norrskensbard Cloak, and lord_kjar cut some grass from our field with a scythe to make an archery target, because he thought we needed one.
