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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">The next meeting of the NCRTG will be on
Wednesday, July 9th - usual time and place (email Gerita at <A
href="mailto:hpockets@verizon.net">hpockets@verizon.net</A> for
details).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">Topic is "PEARL EMBROIDERY" and we will work on
pearl/bead adornment in period. </FONT><FONT face="Book Antiqua">The
goal is a fabric cover for a book, similar to period books of hours
(which were tiny, but size isn't the point) which hung from a Lady's girdle in
most Western European countries. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">Folks will need to have in mind a small book to
cover (blank notebook?, your dayminder? a needlebook?), and bring the
following:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">- Fabric at least four inches
bigger than the measurement of the entire cover. Colored fabric may be
best, since pearls tend to be white. In period, this would be fine wool,
velvet (try cotton velveteen), heavy linen, etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">- A fabric marking pencil will
be helpful if you have one (but we have a couple)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">- a few fine needles (beading
needles are necessary only for "Indian seed beads")</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">- Pearls or pearl beads sized
about 4 mm. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">- Sewing thread, or if we're
being absolutely Period, silk sewing thread.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">- Embroidery hoop you can hold
in your hand comfortably.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">There will be a simple design for you to trace
onto your fabric, and then embroider with pearls using a couple of
different methods.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua">We'll also decide whether to do a dyeing workshop
in September. And discuss the upcoming Clothing Collegium in
Steppes.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>"
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making<BR> exciting
discoveries."
---= A. A. Milne<BR>"....look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere
else."<BR> ---= Tom Stoppard,
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" (1967)</DIV></BODY></HTML>