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…
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…
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…
