[Sca-cooks] Bayeux Tapestry

[Sue Clemenger]

Yeah, I do know it's all embroidery.  I've learned to weave recently, so 
now I can do the background fabric.  Theoretically, at this point of 
course, since I've never woven with linen!
Have already taken care of the dyeing part.
<geez, of *course* totally from scratch! I'm also working on spinning 
enough yarn to weave a 10th c. BLT* (using a pattern from Coppergate, 
York), and sew a gown with it>
*That's not OFoodC, that's fiber shorthand for Broken Lozenge Twill...
--maire, needlework and textile geek masquerading as a sometime-cook ;o)

AEllin Olafs dotter wrote:

> You do know that it isn't actually a tapestry? That is, it isn't woven, 
> but embroidered? I would think your wonderful embroidery skills are more 
> to the point than your weaving... unless you really want to weave the 
> ground cloth. I mean, you certainly can... *EG* Totally from scratch? 
> Now you have to learn to dye your wool...
> 
> In a discussion with someone who believes embroidery is everything, I 
> was threatening to do pretty much that... spin and weave linen, and then 
> toss in some embroidery just to show off the perfection <choke> of my 
> work...  this was hypothetical, let me hasten to say! Now, you do 
> embroider, so this would be very cool., if you do want to do it!
> 
> AEllin
> 
> Sue Clemenger wrote:
> 
>> Oh, no, nothing like that.  I've talked for years about doing a 
>> "from-scratch" panel of the tapestry, and I'm finally learning to spin 
>> and weave, so it's becoming more likely.  Just a personal effort.  If 
>> I ever get a website or something, which would certainly be a lot of 
>> fun, I'll put stuff like this up on it, done in diary-fashion.
>> --maire
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