Beautiful ! Thanks for sharing.
Susan
"Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel
too fast and you miss all you are traveling for". - "Ride the Dark
Trail" by Louis L'Amour
On May 22, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Kristin wrote:
Well, I haven't had a chance to upload recent pictures until this
evening,
but here's a link to the late 1700's outfit I've been working on since
the
fall:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=jq8t100.nqqmx58&x=0&y=-tik0q<http:
//www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=jq8t100.nqqmx58&x=0&y=-tik0q>
I'm procrastinating on the quilted petticoat again, by making a pair of
stays. I guess I'll be finished with the binding within the next week
and
will have to go back to quilting for a while. My next procrastination
project is to make pockets... and then maybe start making another
shift, but
of linen this time around... and then...
I'm so very happy to see that I'm not the only one who works on
multiple
projects simultaneously. It used to drive my ex nuts... but I guess
he was
never around anyone else who had a creative streak in them!
Kristin
On 5/22/06, Catherine Olanich Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 21 May 2006 11:48 pm, Sue Clemenger wrote:
> I think I'm right about where you are, garb-wise, Cathy. My
"laundry
list"
> wasn't really an indication of my Extreme Expertise and Skills, but
more
> like the results of being consitutionally incapable of project
monogamy.
Same here, which was part of my point. However, you have attempted a
wider
variety of projects than I have (see below).
> Deity help me, a couple of weeks ago, I was encountering my first
power
> tool (a drill press) in a friend's garage, learning to register
soapstone
> molds so I can carve the molds and make my own pewter buttons for
fitted
> gowns.
Now anything that requires power tools is a bit farther than I've
cared to
go!
I'm still waffling about using that sheet copper I bought to try to
make a
Viking style needlecase-and I can do that with only a dowel and a
pair of
pliers (and maybe crazy glue).
> I'd love to hear more about you Lithuanian shawl!
One of the things the lands along the Baltic seem to have in common
(Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, parts of Finland, even Novogorod) is
that the
rich tended to ornament their clothes by working bronze coils and
rings
into
them. (Most of the 1st-10th c textile finds in those areas have
survived
because the bronze ornaments preserve a fair amount of the cloth.
Since
most
of the ornamentation was at the edges, you get a good idea of the
size of
the
ornamented items.)
Based on where the metal ornaments were found, it appears that there
was a
standard shawl size (roughly 30 inches by 40 inches). The proper way
to
do
the ornamentation would be to weave the shawl to order, and wrap
strips of
sheet bronze or bits of bronze wire around certain warp threads as I
worked,
but I'm not likely to learn how to weave anything bigger than a
tablet-woven
belt anytime soon. So what I'll probably do is kind of corkscrew
pieces
of
copper wire into already woven wool (I have some nice wool melton cut
and
fringed for the purpose). Then, I will make smaller coils of copper
wire,
string them onto a cord, and couch them onto each short end.
Raymond's Quiet Press started making the kind of stick pins that (it
has
been
theorized) were used to fasten these shawls. There's a picture of the
design
here:
http://www.quietpress.com/New2004.html
(look under "new in October 2004"; it's the left-hand picture, the
item on
the
far right).
They were used in pairs, fastened together with bronze chains. The
pins
attached to them are huge--as big as knitting needles (the same is
true of
the actual survivals Raymond's model is based upon).
Having finally bought myself a pair from Raymond as a birthday
present, my
theory is that the pins were never meant to go through anything other
than
the shawl. Once you fasten them to the shawl (I've already tried
this)
you
can take the shawl off and on over your head (really, really
carefully,
to
make sure you don't gouge out your eyes) as a unit, without risking
damage
to
the rest of your body or clothes.
I have already finished most of the rest of the costume the shawl is
to be
worn with. When I finally finish the shawl, I'll put a picture in the
MedCos
gallery and post the URL to it here.
--
Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"I'm starting to like the cut of this man's gibberish."
--General Fillmore (from "The Tick," episode 2)
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