In 2010 I dyed some yarn for Thomas, It was suppose to become a jacket. I warped it in 2012 and did actually weave it the same year. The plan was always to make a mi parti jacket, as you can read here. After that the fabric have been lying in a box waiting for Thomas…
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Some days ago, WordPress let us know that it was six years since we started In deme Jare Cristi. Me and Maria agreed on writing a kind of celebratory post together, and as I happen to have time on my hands today, I guess I’ll be the first blogger out. As I recall it, In…
A (very) long time ago, I came across the picture to the left. At the time I thought it pretty strange as I thought it resembled of one of those French berets. You know which ones I mean. The ones with a little teet in the middle that all baguette Frenchies wear, along with that striped…
Jan Ranekes Europas medeltidsvapen kanske inte är lika känt som hans verk Svenska Medeltidsvapen, men oavsett vilket så har nu Svenska Heraldiska Föreningen gjort runt två tredjedelar av härligheten tillgängliga online! Ta en titt på Projekt Raneke redan nu! Vi skåningar kan djupdyka i skånska vapen genom att gå in under rubrikerna Danmark 1, Danmark 2 och Danmark…
Originally posted on historical textiles:
English within the text- Translated by Anna Lindemark, Lindemark Text Nordisk textilteknisk terminologi – Förindustriell vävnadsproduktion 1967 gav Elisabeth Strömberg, Agnes Geijer, Margrethe Hald och Marta Hoffman ut boken ”Nordisk textilteknisk terminologi- Förindustriell vävnadsproduktion”. Boken utgörs av en samling definitioner på svenska och synonymer på danska, isländska, norska och finska…
Hi kids! It’s now time for another little thing on medieval beds. This time I will take a look at how people slept when on the road. As a starting point, I will look at so called ”Heerbedde” – an ”Army bed”, as it gives us some impression of what people on campaign used for…
I had a look at the monastic rule for the monks, nuns and monastic knights from different times and locations to fins out more about how they slept. It is a somewhat specific setting, which not altogether applies to mundane conditions, but it should give us some hints on what was used – and what wasn’t…
I sometimes portrait the wife of a high ranking nobleman in Sweden. In the late 14th century the movers and shakers of their time did have access to fancy fabrics of high quality, even silks, so I thought it would have been accessible for a noblewoman, even in an outpost of Sweden. I bought a silk…
Take a piece of a sturdy cotton fabric and place it, on the bias, on your lower leg. Make sure the fabric is long enough to reach from you knee to under your foot. Pin the fabric on the backside of your leg and under your heal, to the middle of foot. Cut away the fabric…
Fighters tend to sew their padding to the helmet. So does the one I’m living with. This is him in his helmet. 5th from the right. Picture from Azincourt 2015 at the 600years anniversary. The padding tend to get kind of sweaty when being worn. I strongly recommend to take it out and wash it every…
