I'm either today, or sometime in the next few days, going to be ordering 10 yards of 5.3 oz linen from fabric-store.com. I figure it's a great staple fabric, so it certainly won't go to waste.

I'm intending some of it as a pair of pants/trews for Conn... his persona is 11c (I've talked to him since, he's started in 1186, now is around 1199, since he ( Read more... )

There, finally got the indian cotton for my Persian shirt in the tannic acid bath. I have my silk in the washer now, and will have to set up the alum bath for that and the cotton in the next half hour or so. Using my tupperware tubs that had been holding my yarn/fabric for the mordant baths ( Read more... )

Well, got my walk in both last night and this morning, and as I was leaving this morning, I noticed the postman putting the mail in, so I checked once I got home, and my fabric samples from www.fabric-store.com came in! :) I'd ordered 4 different weights of fabric: 2.8 oz of 53% linen, 47% cotton, and 3.5 oz bleached in linen, and the same, but ( Read more... )