I don't recall if I mentioned the sprang workshop I took part in at Cudgel War--it was just to do a simple little pair of garters, but the "frame" we were using was clamping a couple of sticks to the table, and the table was long, so I wound up making a pair of belts, both of which were immediately put into service to hold up trousers. Both my ( Read more... )

I have been interested in trying to make tights from sprang ever since I read the article on Tight-Fitting Clothes in Antiquity - Experimental Reconstruction by Dagmar Drinkler, which appeared in issue #49 of the Archaeological Textiles Newsletter, but, since I haven't been able to get a copy of Collingwood's book on sprang I haven't really made ( Read more... )

I would like to start this post with a formal complaint about the weather. I did not move this close to the Arctic Circle because I thought rain in winter was a good idea. Yet, here it is, 4 December, and instead of the half meter (or so) accumulation of snow we should have on the ground here not only do we have no snow at all, but it has been ( Read more... )

While some people might think that sprang is a verb (she sprang out of bed in the morning, fully alert and ready to face her day), today it has been a nounI have seen sprang mentioned in various books and articles on archaeological textiles over the years, and it always looked interesting, but I wasn't motivated to try it. In part because the ( Read more... )