[HNW] slate/stretcher frame

[Johnna Holloway]

This sort of search can be fun or frustrating when taken to
Google Books.

Stodeles there turns up
Embroiderers - Page 28


Kay Staniland - 1991 - 72 pages
John de Cologne found it necessary to buy iron hooks and thick cord  
and thread for this project plus some unidentified items termed  
stodeles, perhaps beams or frames for stretching the work, purchased  
from a carpenter. ...

which is of course the book you cite.

And farther down in the search pops up

Bordadores - Page 28


Kay Staniland - 2000 - 72 pages
Juan de Colonia hubo de comprar ganchos de hierro, así como sogas e  
hilos gruesos, además de varios objetos no identificados y que  
aparecen como stodeles, quizá varas o bastidores para estirar la pieza  
hechos por un ...

The word apparently doesn't translate.

There are 120 other matches, most to a family name but it also appears  
in a will.

Johnna


On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Dyan J wrote:
>   Some text about the stretcher frames in Medieval Craftsmen  
> Embroiderer's is only suggestive... (in part) "we have to suppose  
> that already, by established tradition, the craftsmen were supplying  
> their own equipment".
> Another paragraph states, " John de Cologne found it necessary to  
> buy iron hooks & thick cord & thread for this project plus some  
> unidentified items termed stodeles, perhaps beams or frames for  
> stretching the work, purchased from a carpenter". Other text  
> explains how to dress them.
>
> Has anyone ran across "stodeles" in research?
>

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