ILL got this book to me earlier this week:

Viking Artefacts: A Select Catalogue by James Graham-Cambell (ISBN: 0-7141-1354-9)


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Well, I picked up "Needlework Tools and Accessories: A Collector's Guide" by Molly G. Proctor from my ILL desk today. The lucet is mentioned in on pages 120-121 (no, not volumes of information, I agree). The section referring to the age of these instruments is as follows:

"During excavations of the Viking settlement at York a broken lucet was found ( Read more... )

So in my last post about tracking down the history of the ellusive 'lucet monster', I mentioned that I was going to make another round of ILL requests to check in to the bibliography from Lucet Braiding: Variations on a Renaissance Cord, by Elaine Fuller. Here is what I have gotten back from my university ILL desk:

Goodnow, Kendra and Hilliger, ( Read more... )

Awhile back I posted this information...

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Ran into newperspectives via attack_laurel's  petticoat post; She sent me some lovely information on another style of cord making*.

This got me thinking, I need to post some research on the point making styles I am going to be doing as recontrution work. From what I can find on the net, lucet cording is period for the 16th century (I am making a leap to say that it existed in ( Read more... )

Yesterday was fun!

Spent all day at a Classified Personnel conference that my District holds every year. There were a *lot* of folks that I had never met there - some that I knew from phone and e-mail contact but many that I had never interacted with. Not a big shock, I have only been with the District for three months. It was really nice to run ( Read more... )

OK, I have a few techniques I am planning on testing out and I am going to document them here for others who might find them interesting. They have to do with the making, binding and filling (use) of point holes for the 16th century.

The scope of the project should be worked out before the first weekend in April (when I plan on my husband using his ( Read more... )