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Dec. 15th, 2006 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenGot adjusted this morning. Lots of things out, mostly on the left. Need more work done on muscles of mid/upper back, need to stretch more, and was gently chastised for not wearing my orthotics. I don't really think about it when I'm indoors... sigh. So, going to start making notes in one of my travelling books on what I'm doing each day for stretching, strengthening, and exercising. On the plus side, my neck wasn't as far out of alignment as it has been for the past month. Yay!
I have to spin everyday between now and about a week before EK 12th Night. Many yards to go, but I shouldn't spin for more than 1 hour at a time, especially with the drop spindle. Tightens the shoulders/back up something fierce if I go for too long. And besides, I need scheduled time for painting.
So, going to try to have more structured time and see how that works.
Been doing pretty well at not staying in one position for more than two hours (the Sarnac Stretch challenge), and buggingfitzw about it as well.
Family holiday gathering tomorrow, and still have one more present to get because I couldn't get up to the spending limit -- store only had two bins and I need one more, or something else. May get gift certificate for remainder, at one of the recipient's favorite stores instead. Oops, just remembered I have a couple of other gifts to get. sigh. Wrapping to do still as well - combo of whatever papers I have in stock and some of the cloth gift bags I made earlier this year.
Tonight is Needleworkers, where we start talking with folks about mid-late 14th c. clothing, showing pictures, etc. Not mid-late 14th c., but I now have a pic of early 14th c. plaid clothing in Italy. Short of doing an exhaustive search on all extant textile pieces, it's going to be hard to say in detail what patterns were in use. Paintings and illustrations from the time period are only so helpful, and written documents can also be lacking, although they sometimes have information on things for which there are no extant pieces (inventories, histories of actual events, bills of sale/lading, wills).
What we have for sure - ideas/information on construction and silhouette, from different countries. Information on materials - wool, linen, some silk. Weaves - plain/tabby, twills, some type of brocade (not jacquard). Patterns - plain solid, patterned but solid, striped (usually horizontal, but not always - see Venice), check, some plaid. Some stripes may be applied trim, not woven. One of the reasons I've printed a bunch of the Medieval Textile Society newsletters is to start learning about period weaves. Eventually I'll get to books, but the articles are more manageable for me. I do have Crowfoot's book on textiles (1100 - 1450), which I've been perusing when I have time.
Why the interest in plaid?
-Because it wasn't just for Scottish people. Italian and Spanish folks liked it too, and also some folks in the mid-East, IIRC.
-Because "plaid" covers a lot of different weave patterns and color combinations - some are more appropriate to SCA period than others. The red Stewart thatfitzw and I got for Tom and Fiona's baronial investiture -- pretty, but post period in design. (I still bring one to Pennsic for putting on the bed, because by golly it's good quality wool.)
- Because I have some really cool purple/green plaid and I want to use it for medieval/renaissance clothing :D
Update: found one prezzie,fitzw's getting another, and for the last either a gift card or some artwork if I have time tonight (something simple and suited to a Provencal-style kitchen).
I have to spin everyday between now and about a week before EK 12th Night. Many yards to go, but I shouldn't spin for more than 1 hour at a time, especially with the drop spindle. Tightens the shoulders/back up something fierce if I go for too long. And besides, I need scheduled time for painting.
So, going to try to have more structured time and see how that works.
Been doing pretty well at not staying in one position for more than two hours (the Sarnac Stretch challenge), and bugging
fitzw about it as well. Family holiday gathering tomorrow, and still have one more present to get because I couldn't get up to the spending limit -- store only had two bins and I need one more, or something else. May get gift certificate for remainder, at one of the recipient's favorite stores instead. Oops, just remembered I have a couple of other gifts to get. sigh. Wrapping to do still as well - combo of whatever papers I have in stock and some of the cloth gift bags I made earlier this year.
Tonight is Needleworkers, where we start talking with folks about mid-late 14th c. clothing, showing pictures, etc. Not mid-late 14th c., but I now have a pic of early 14th c. plaid clothing in Italy. Short of doing an exhaustive search on all extant textile pieces, it's going to be hard to say in detail what patterns were in use. Paintings and illustrations from the time period are only so helpful, and written documents can also be lacking, although they sometimes have information on things for which there are no extant pieces (inventories, histories of actual events, bills of sale/lading, wills).
What we have for sure - ideas/information on construction and silhouette, from different countries. Information on materials - wool, linen, some silk. Weaves - plain/tabby, twills, some type of brocade (not jacquard). Patterns - plain solid, patterned but solid, striped (usually horizontal, but not always - see Venice), check, some plaid. Some stripes may be applied trim, not woven. One of the reasons I've printed a bunch of the Medieval Textile Society newsletters is to start learning about period weaves. Eventually I'll get to books, but the articles are more manageable for me. I do have Crowfoot's book on textiles (1100 - 1450), which I've been perusing when I have time.
Why the interest in plaid?
-Because it wasn't just for Scottish people. Italian and Spanish folks liked it too, and also some folks in the mid-East, IIRC.
-Because "plaid" covers a lot of different weave patterns and color combinations - some are more appropriate to SCA period than others. The red Stewart that
fitzw and I got for Tom and Fiona's baronial investiture -- pretty, but post period in design. (I still bring one to Pennsic for putting on the bed, because by golly it's good quality wool.) - Because I have some really cool purple/green plaid and I want to use it for medieval/renaissance clothing :D
Update: found one prezzie,
fitzw's getting another, and for the last either a gift card or some artwork if I have time tonight (something simple and suited to a Provencal-style kitchen).
