[Sca-cooks] Silly idea for A&S exhibit

[Sue Clemenger]

I wouldn't go with the "quilt squares"....patchwork quilts are pretty
OOP.  Nowadays we tend to use "quilt" (the noun) to mean a variety of
objects done in any one of several techniques.  Only some of them fall
within the SCA time frame.  From our period, there are quilted garments,
and a couple of quilted bedcovers and maybe some wall-hangings, but
that's "quilted" in the "stitched" sense (trapunto is one period
technique, for instance), and not in the "pieced" sense.
Now, what would work really, really slick, would be to do a *tile floor*
sort of thing--many extant tiles look remarkably like what we'd now
think of as quilt squares, and could be combined to form all kinds of
patterns. Each person's tile or tiles could be made to a pre-determined
size, so they'd all fit together neatly. Dover even has a book on (I
think...book's in the other room) English Medieval Tiles? or some
such....
Or if you were really ambitious, what about an edible mosaic? Mosaic's
certainly a period technique! Maybe do it with tiles made from different
foods? That might be really, really cool to do for a Byzantine feast, or
a Roman feast....a mosaic subtlety <g>....
--Maire, who loves all that needlework and textile stuff, but loves food
and silly food fun, too!

Olwen the Odd wrote:
>
> Well, I've dressed dead birds, peeps, cabbages, carrots, potatos, watermelon
> and all number of foodstuffs and I am first to admit that it *is* truely
> silly.
> Now quilt squares!  Now THAT would be something!!!
> Olwen, wondering what the outside chance is of documenting quilts (as we
> know them)
>
> >Why?  Don't feel silly?  Anyone who'd put feathers back onto a cooked
> >peacock......now THAT'S silly!  *grin*
> >
> >Soffya
> >-----Original Message-----
> >How about if each person made a 'quilt square'--marzipan, sugar plate,
> >gingerbred, and then everyone laid them together.  Then you could eat it
> >for
> >the dessert...
> >      Devra, feeling silly today
> >