frualeydis | Still sick

I felt horrible yesterday and got very little done at work (finished reading Ruth Mellinkoff's Outcasts : signs of otherness in northern European art of the late Middle Ages, two interesting books with nice pictures even if I don't buy all her opinions and results) and when I woke up today I didn't feel well at all. So I decided to stay at home and sleep, which I did until 11.10. now my body feels numb and weird and my vision is bothering me, the right eye goes a little blurry and unfocused at times, but I feel better. My plan is to get to the water aerobics this afternoon and to do only the stretching movements and not the running and jumping. I missed last week's aerobics because I had a temperature and though I'm technically still not well enough to do exercise my body feels better after all that stretching.

Yesterday I finished hemming a six metre long c. 12 cm wider strip of red linen that is going to be used as a wimple sort of thing for my late 13th c. pleated fillet in the same fabric. Red is documented from a swedish altarpiece (Fröskog) although the normal colour for the wimple and fillet combination of course is white. Both wimple and fillet are called gebende in german, a word that is related to "binding" and that was what was done in the late 13th c., you bound your head with long strips of linen or silk. That's why the wimple on statues and paintings from that time is so smooth and tight,as opposed to later 14th c.and 15th c. wimples. There will be pictures and references eventually.