May. 13th, 2008
I am now comfortably installed in
m_nivalis extremely lovely flat in central Malmö; food shopping has been done and her mother and I have checked buses, trains and metro to the university in Copenhagen. I look forward to tomorrow when I have nothing to do except meet and listen to interesting people, like the hand weaver Lena Hammarlund who's done a lot of reconstruction of roman and medieval textiles, Professor Lise Bender Jörgensen, my friend Viktoria who's going to talk about tablet weaving and of course Mistress Seelie from the West who I haven't met since NESAT 2002.
I just got an e-mail from acquaintance from way back. She has set up a company which reproduces printed textiles from the Middle Ages. Look! It's the first fabric which is an exact reproduction of the lining of a 15th century antependium. Another 15th century fabric, from inside a chasuble will soon be in production too. The fabrics are now only sold in a few museum shops, but she is looking for new sellers - it is not impossible that non swedes can work something out with them if they contact her.