Weaving Explorations and a Silk Purse
Weaving from more Baynard’s Castle finds to create hose for spouse.
As well, exploring more from the Song Dynasty, combining weaving and embroidery.
Explorations in fabric finishing.
Exhibit Category: Weaving
My tangled web, weaving cloth and trim
Recreating the Cambridge Diamonds with woad dyed linen and learning to weave cloth on a floor loom
Early Medieval Slavic Garb: A Beginner’s Journey into Embellishment
I wanted to learn some basic embroidery and narrow-ware weaving skills. I ended up falling down a rabbithole! This about my journey and lessons I learned along the way.
Experimental Textile Archaeology of Firenze 1490
Working with fibre is like learning music: you can be taught the mechanics, but no-one can teach you the soul. I have gone down many rabbit holes and learning to weave cloth for Aspasia in 1490 Firenze is the focus of this presentation.
Teaching Tablet Weaving During the Plague and Beyond
Exploration of the Oseberg 12L1 woven band, the pattern, fibers, and theories about what it may have looked like in period. I have also been using modern technology to make learning more accessible to beginning tablet weavers.
Late 14th Century Tabby Weave Plaid Fabric
A sample of wool cloth based on an extant textile excavated from Baynard’s Castle.
Embroidery in silk based on extant finds in the eras around the Song Dynasty.