[Ansteorra-textiles] some ideas
Delphina Champeaux
lady_rapier at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 26 09:03:32 PDT 2002
I like the idea of an event for textiles... it could
be a combo of classes and display/comp.
Delphina
--- Nancy Wederstrandt <nweders at mail.utexas.edu>
wrote:
>
>
> I have been thinking of some areas that textile work
> could be encouraged
> and thought we could talk about some of them. See
> if you all think it
> would be good.
>
> A series of booklets about different types of
> textiles. You know - period
> knitting - some basic research, pictures of it
> within period, bibliography,
> and maybe some projects - a knitted reliquary bag,
> a Monmouth hat. Or a
> booklet on the silk industry in Lyon. Or Inkle/card
> weaving patterns...
> They booklets could be done very inexpensively and
> any profits could be
> used for the Kingdom A&S office or for prizes for
> areas of textiles (you
> knowGulf War or some thing.)
>
> A Symposium on the textile arts and a history of
> textiles. Could be a
> separate event or a set of classes at King's
> College.
>
> I read where a Barony in the East had drawn up their
> own version of the
> Bayeux Tapestry and everyone worked on it. It was
> like the mythic creation
> of their Kingdom or Barony. I remember seeing
> pictures of it.
>
> A traveling display that emphasizes the textile arts
> that could be set up
> at events.
>
> I have been thinking that we could set up meeting
> much like the one at
> Steppes and do some small workshops. Nothing major
> and nothing
> planned. More like - hey I'm gonna be att his event
> and I can bring my
> pots and we can natural dye outdoors....
>
> What do you all think?
>
> Clare
>
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