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Corrections, pregnancy and sequins
Feb. 13th, 2004 11:08 amI got my article (Historisk tidskrift, I've been going on quite a lot about it in January) back with suggestions for corrections today. There was lots of red in it, but nothing serious, so I don't feel put down. Just a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing, that my article is getting published.
Apart from correcting the article I've graded some tests and now I feel that I deserve a tea break. I've been trying to catch up with people's LJ-posts, but it seems you've all been very active the last five days.
My belly is getting heavy now and I have problems sleeping because it aches in the lower part of it (muscle strain) and baby's kicking almost all the time. Only ten weeks to go!
Yesterday I bought gold spangles/sequins for my loose kirtle. The original was made from silk embroidered with silver spangles and even though I'm making it from brocade and not embroidered silk I think it needs the spangles to make it more like the real thing. It will make me feel like I'm playing the lead part in "Hello Dolly", but I decided long ago not to let modern aesthetics stand in the way of periodness. For example: The fabric of the so called Queen Margareta's golden gown" is truly tasteless. I've seen it up close (it was woven at Vafskolan in Boras, pretty close to Gothenburg, where I live) and normally I wouldn't be caught dead in something so golden and shiny (the pictures are nothing compared to the real thing). But I would kill to have the fabric to make a 15th c gown from (I probably _would_ have to kill to get it. It's handwoven, they made a couple of centimeters/day, from silk and specially ordered real gold thread.)
Historical Costuming makes strange things with your taste.
Apart from correcting the article I've graded some tests and now I feel that I deserve a tea break. I've been trying to catch up with people's LJ-posts, but it seems you've all been very active the last five days.
My belly is getting heavy now and I have problems sleeping because it aches in the lower part of it (muscle strain) and baby's kicking almost all the time. Only ten weeks to go!
Yesterday I bought gold spangles/sequins for my loose kirtle. The original was made from silk embroidered with silver spangles and even though I'm making it from brocade and not embroidered silk I think it needs the spangles to make it more like the real thing. It will make me feel like I'm playing the lead part in "Hello Dolly", but I decided long ago not to let modern aesthetics stand in the way of periodness. For example: The fabric of the so called Queen Margareta's golden gown" is truly tasteless. I've seen it up close (it was woven at Vafskolan in Boras, pretty close to Gothenburg, where I live) and normally I wouldn't be caught dead in something so golden and shiny (the pictures are nothing compared to the real thing). But I would kill to have the fabric to make a 15th c gown from (I probably _would_ have to kill to get it. It's handwoven, they made a couple of centimeters/day, from silk and specially ordered real gold thread.)
Historical Costuming makes strange things with your taste.
