Trying to be happy

I'm working on prototypes for the at least two coifs to wear under my "english hood". I'm mainly working from this Holbein sketch of Anne Boleyn, but there are many good pictures of coifs at Hope Greenberg's page about tudor bonnets. Some more can also be seen on her page about tudor dress. In the Boleyn picture it is not clear if the layer under the wired coif is a band of fabric or another coif, but I think it is clear from the other pictures. In my favourite bonnet portrait, the one I made the knitted bonnet from, she has three layers: First the tight fitting coif, then what appears to be a wired coif similar to the understructure of a gable hood, and then either another coif or a piece of fabric with the edges folded up to the outside. It is only the inner coif that will be possible to use for both my "Moore portrait gown" and the "bonnet gown", but I think it may be a good idea to think of them at the same time.

PS. I think this sketch is especially cool. There you see that there is a piece of fabric pinned over the wired coif, just like there is one tied over Anne Boleyn's coif in the first picture I linked to.

I still feel depressed by my mentor's lack of confidence in me and in the manuscript and I wish I could start working on it NOW, but I have one week and a couple of days to work on the Bocksten bog man report first. I contemplated going to work for a couple of hours today but decided that I deserved some rest and Olympic winter games on the telly. There's nothing as cozy and family-like as watching cross country skiing with your husband and kids. I think I have the beginning of a flare of rheumatic activity which really isn't helping. My feet hurt a lot, even before I get out of bed in the morning.

But enough whining and self-pity, I'm off to cut some coifs from old bed sheets.

isolation is interesting

Our phone is broken. Not the telephone connection, but the actual phone. It will take a couple of days before we will find the time to go out and shop for a new one, so for a while we will only be able to have e-mail contact with people. I can't say that I'm bothered, it will actually be very calm and quiet and nice I think. With all the work I have to do my hermit-tendencies are strengthened. I wil be very happy with just Rickard and Maja.

Oh, and I have made the inner coif and I am just going to start on the outer, wired coif. Both from an antique bed sheet in hand woven linen. It took some fiddling to make the patterns though, there had to be room for my hair in a bun at the neck.

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