[Regia-NA] bone working

[Hrolf Douglasson]

I wear a coloured underdress and no chemise..and today its hot so I have a
linen overdress on as well...If it is hot I tend not to wear my mantle.Gail
Owen Crocker's book..dress in anglo saxon england is being reprinted at the
moment..hazel will have full details.
clothes motjhs are killed by freezing as well...clear the space and leave
fleeces for at least 10 days....If you wait a couple of days I can send you
pics of a WWL and diagrams. there is a picture in the new birka textiles
book,
vara
----- Original Message -----
From: "J Hill" <welshladygwen@citlink.net>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Regia-NA] bone working


> Ian, You're a dear & have come thru once again. <G>
> Send us good tho'ts in the morning for our first meeting.
> I hope it goes well... if we can find 3 people, I'll be thrilled.  That
> would give us the minimum of 5 for our Household + a spare. :>)
> A question:  In the heat of the summer, do you wear a woolen tunic?
> Also, does a lady wear a white chemise, along w/ the undertunic,
overtunic,
> mantle, wimple, etc?  OR, is the coloured linen undertunic taking the
place
> of a chemise?  I will be ordering linen in another week or two.
>
> Additionally, does anyone have a copy of the book re: Dress in Anglo-Saxon
> Britain, or whatever the title is, which you'd be willing to part with?
I'd
> gladly pay for the book, but it cannot be had anywhere I've looked.  I've
> tried the standard search engines & ABEBOOKS & ADDALL book search, too.
> I wonder if David Brown might have it.  Will look.  But, if anyone has any
> books relevant to our period & Anglo-Saxon, we would be most interested in
> purchasing them for our wee group.
>
> Meanwhile, I'm totally exhausted tonite... continuing the battle against
the
> clothes moths ... tho't they'd been eradicated, but saw one flying about
> tonite.  Not a good sign.  esp as I've brought most of my fleeces back
into
> the house.
> I plan to wash all of them soonest... & a rinse in eucalyptus water to
> confuse the miserable insects.  I've never had anything like this... it
must
> be the late, wet Spring.
> I have 14 boxes up, so far, & probably 10 more 30 gal plastic sacks full
on
> the deck.  I've roasted the larvae in the sun to kill them, but now really
> need to get those fleeces out of the heat & neatly stacked.  I wish I had
> some sort of outside storage, but that isn't feasible at the moment.
> I've decided that, once these get washed, spun & woven or knitted up, I
> shall not have a fleece stash again.  I'll get the fleeces off my couple
of
> sheep & maybe one or two others, but never anything like this.  [I tend to
> be the recipient of "free" fleeces which I use for my spinning classes at
> the college.  Add those to my own sheep & the fleeces I've purchased & you
> begin to see the problem!]
>
> A warp-weighted loom question:  What sort of standard lumber sizes have
you
> used in the construction of your loom?  Also, how did you make your
weaving
> sword & are you using a weighted fork like one uses in tapestry?  For
indoor
> use, what do you use for "feet"?
> I'm very interested in trying dukagang on it.  However, I cannot find my
> Mary Black book anywhere... I really must go thru those bookcases that are
> double & triple shelved.  LOL
> Are you using a tablet woven top border w/ the TW weft becoming the WW
warp?
> I've been dying to try this. <G>  Plus, this is a great way to have a
second
> loom without my DH having conniptions. <G>
>
> Hoping to unwind & go to sleep........  Jennifer
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Uzzell" <snorri@vikingasaga.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [Regia-NA] bone working
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > > Bill, where does one contact this Anglo-Saxon Press & is there a US
> > > affiliate?
> >
> > Hello again Jennifer
> >
> > The North American contact for the books is:
> >
> >
> >
> >  NORTH AMERICA
> > Most of our titles may be ordered from bookstores or direct from:
> >
> > The David Brown Book Company
> > PO Box 511 (28 Main Street)
> > Oakville
> > CT 06779, USA
> > Tel: 800 791 9354/860 945 9329
> > Fax: 860 945 9468
> > e-mail: david.brown.bk.co@snet.net
> >
> > Ian
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