[Ansteorra-textiles] Re: roll call

Carolle Ternus cternus at texas.net
Thu Feb 19 13:21:12 PST 2004


I've been working on a few different projects.  In order to force myself to
focus, I'm scheduled to give a ~30 minute talk on Sprang to a local mundane
weaving guild in March.  So I'm doing little sampler bags and trying to work
out the Borum Eshoj hairnet.  I can't find the Bog Burial book, but I'm
trying to ILL it and the Danish Bronze Age Costumes book (both by Hald).

I washed some fleece samples and had to throw away one that had moth
eggs/casings.  Now I've got to go through that big bag of smaller bags
looking for infestations.  Grr.

I'm rotating "get back to" projects, a small tapestry weaving and a big
yardage weaving.

I'm not accomplishing a whole lot yet, but I'm doing a lot of it.

Also, I just bought fiber from a person who's getting rid of a lot of stuff
she doesn't use anymore.  So, I got 2 or 3 kilos of Merino, a half pound-ish
of Jacob, a half pound-ish of Icelandic, 6-8 ounces of Tussah and 2 ounces
Bombyx painted in a colorway called 'Crocus'.  It's really pretty.  The best
part is, it was all $25 dollars!  The painted silk alone cost that much; she
still had the price and label inside the bag.  Yea!  Had to brag.

I'm back on a Dabbling in Rare Breeds kick again, so I ordered a few samples
of some I don't already have, rare or non.  Herdwick, Swaledale, Spotted
Morlam, Polwarth, seems like 1 or 2  more.

Well, so much for a short email.
Radegund





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