The rhyme scheme Chaucer used was generally in stanzas of seven lines, as:

a-b-a-b-b-c-c       usually constructed either as: a-b-a, b-b, c-c     a terza rima and two couplets or a-b-a-b,  b-c-c     a quatrain and a tercet and known now as rhyme royal, either after King James I's usage of it, or its reference to the French chant royal.
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Well, I finally have some connectivity and am able to upload my last pics of my hat. The color is a little off but you get the idea.

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I’m leaving this morning for Pennsic, but wanted to give you a look at the hat so far. It still needs a couple of things and I’ll update as I travel.

I cut a piece of leather ¾ inch wide and punched holes down the center. I then couched on the same cording, which I used for the lacing, as that is what was done on the original hat. I attached it ( Read more... )

Sorry about not posting for a bit, been very tied up getting ready for Pennsic. For those of you who may not know, I’m also a vender who makes all products I sell and have been hammered trying to get enough stock ready as well as work on this project. So to catch everyone up on the hat…

I mentioned earlier that I didn’t like how the lacing was ( Read more... )

I mentioned earlier that I made paper for my paper-mache tip. I ripped up the paper and heated up some rabbit skin glue. Next, I covered my wooden hat block with a plastic bag so the glue wouldn’t mess up my block. I began at the top and worked my way down, paper-macheing my little heart out. It was a fairly quick process but the drying took about ( Read more... )

The hat project continues. I know how the weaving of the silver guilt thread was done but was having a difficult time making mine look like the original. I finally realized that my issue was that I wasn’t using enough threads to be thick enough. After several practice tries, I finally reached the below picture as a sample of density of silver cord ( Read more... )

My Trip Report to A&S
I went to A&S this past weekend - it was great fun. Veronica and Godrich did a super job of lining up some really interesting classes. Sadly, I couldn’t get to all of the ones I wanted to take, but I made it to many of them.

I facilitated a workshop on using a wooden hat block - I had to have limited participants as I had ( Read more... )

Well, I’ve been embroidering along for a while with miles to go before I rest. I was able to get some more soie platt from Hedgehog stitching in LA - her last 3 spools of crème, yikes. For those of you who don't know, this has been discontinued which is very sad. I’m pretty sure I’ll have enough now ( Read more... )

I ran into a small problem with the leather I was planning to use ( Read more... )

I should probably started out with this information, but these are the sources for this project ( Read more... )