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

[Olwen the Odd]

>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!

Maire, one day I shall just simply have to pack up my marzipan, toolbox and
sugar and head west and play in your kitchen for a long weekend.  I like the
way you think!
Olwen

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