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A Study in Textiles: April 2014
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Sunday, April 6, 2014. It was a bad week for textile work and thought. I did a little embroidery (got the double running portion of my travel piece, discussed here. Done) and nothing in the way of research or study. Instead, I will talk about a piece seen in a museum, more or less randomly from my photos. The more-or-less random selection is Fragment. From a distance it looks relatively neat. But, it's not all abou...
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A Study in Textiles: New Post day -- Thursday's A&S Report
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Thursday, August 13, 2015. New Post day - Thursday's A&S Report. Some time ago my husband and I decided that Wednesday evenings would be A&S night at our house. We bring or order in dinner and devote the evening to some form of Arts and Sciences (usually something for SCA, but sometimes it is something more modern). To "keep me honest" I'm going to try to post on Thursdays a report of my A&S night activity. Meanwhi...
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A Study in Textiles: June 2015
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Monday, June 29, 2015. The one drawback of this pattern is that it requires a very long seam attaching a straight piece to a curved piece. Curved sewing on the sewing machine is . well, lets just say it is not my strong suit. For this reason, the whole wardrobe of coifs I envisioned did not come about. Top stitching resulting from seam finishing. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow by Email - Get an email when I post.
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A Study in Textiles: August 2015
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Monday, August 31, 2015. When working on projects inspired by or meant to recreate historic pieces, we are often faced by a number of problems with fabric selection. That's certainly what comes to my mind, but without seeing the piece in person, or really really good photographs, including areas that the threads may have worn away, I can't be sure. The project that raised this topic is one of Richard Wymarc's.
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A Study in Textiles: July 2015
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Monday, July 27, 2015. A couple of months ago, my husband and I vacationed in Massachusetts. We had a lovely hotel room for a week outside of Sturbridge - and spent two wonderful days at Old Sturbridge Village. On the one day we went it was their Wool Days. One of the activities going on was dyeing. Here are some of the natural dyes they had on the table. Of course, I was so sure I would remember them all. Another ...
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A Study in Textiles: October 2009
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Friday, October 30, 2009. Joining in the round Knitting. Most of my knitting has been in the round – primarily on double pointed needles. I do have one unintended Möbius scarf from the stitches twisting as I joined, but I’ve otherwise been lucky. While exploring "in the round" stitching, I have found two different ways of joining when using double point needles. The first photo is using traditional joining, the sec...
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A Study in Textiles: March 2014
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Sunday, March 30, 2014. It is true, of course, that many examples of void work embroidery are red (including the two I've already discussed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, here. In fact, red is such a predominant color for "Assisi" work that some manuals will specifically say that it is always red. So, if you have a chance to go to the Met, go to Gallery 503 and visit my favorite piece. Taken at an angle next to...
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A Study in Textiles: Travel work
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Sunday, March 2, 2014. The Bayeux inspired piece. Is wonderful and a piece that I'm enjoying greatly - but it is not very portable. Sometimes my "toss it in the tote bag" project is something modern (like the baby blanket. I recently finished), but I tend to also have something historically inspired as well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow by Email - Get an email when I post. But, it's not all about hist...
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A Study in Textiles: Double running....
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Monday, August 10, 2015. Both of these pieces were done on linen grounds - the red on a slightly more open weave than the black. The designs came from New Little Pattern Book. By Peter Quentel, a. Of an 1882 printing of a book from the 1527-1529 edition. And I worked out the corners. The first is a red work handkerchief, worked on 32 count even weave linen (sold in needlework stores) with one strand of red Splendor.
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A Study in Textiles: Making a workroom into a studio
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A Study in Textiles. Elizabet's journal of research and creation. DONE - Historic and SCA. Monday, July 20, 2015. Making a workroom into a studio. It started last year. I was treating my work room like a junk room. It was a mess. Fabric was everywhere - mostly not on the shelves that took up a very large portion of the room. It was hard to move around and finding a given thing that I wanted was a daunting task. Just a portion of the disaster zone. I decided it had to be changed. The shelves have been fil...
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