[Regia-NA] Huck (was Re: LHE Regs)

[Carolyn Priest-Dorman]

Gwen, under another name, ;> wrote:

>Does Huck Lace [weaving] go back that far?  Or among our people?  [I'm 
>warping up a project on the loom at the moment & was curious.]

The earliest huck-type piece I've heard about is Coptic.  The next earliest 
is 11th or 12th century, and it's in a relic collection in Belgium.  Here's 
a link to a newsletter article I wrote in the MTSG newsletter on some early 
figured linen weaves.

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs/mnm_mt30.pdf

But the lacy effect given by patterns of grouped floats (i.e., what we 
modern readers of _Handwoven_ tend to think of when we hear the term "huck 
lace") is not something I've seen before the 18th century.  FWIW.

>Has it turned Spring anywhere?

Still cold at night, but *finally* today was cloudless, warm, and 
glorious.  May is one of the two most beautiful months here in upstate New 
York (October being the other).  Today I prepared flower beds, tomorrow 
I'll transplant if the weather's good.  Also weeded (some of) the weld 
patch; some of those little plants I sowed last September are actually 
bolting, hurrah!  Another 18th century recommendation that really works.... ;>


Carolyn Priest-Dorman              Þóra Sharptooth
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