Neck trim for the tunicella

[frualeydis]

Yesterday, at Lödöse medieval market, I found silk tablet woven trim, ca 15mm wide. It is not the same pattern as on the original tunicella; this pattern is made by turning all the tablets at the same time while tablet woven trim from the middle ages was patterned with tablets being turned individually. But it's still silk and tablet woven and I don't have to make it myself. So I put it around the neck and then put freshwater pearls along the edges.




The real colour is a berry red, but it is taken without flash because it looked weird with it.

And this is the original.

As you can see, my tunicella is inspired by the original but in no way a re-creation of it.

Comments

[jenthompson.livejournal.com]

Ohhh... that's so pretty!

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

Yes - most lovely
:O)

[therru.livejournal.com]

Even if the pattern/weaving method isn't period, it's still very nice!

[aclisto.livejournal.com]

That is very nice.

[seamstrix.livejournal.com]

I love the pearls along the edge! Oops.....is my Elizabethan sensibility showing again? *grin* But really, it looks very nice, looking forward to seeing shots of the complete outfit.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's there in the original too, so it really is your 12th century sensibility :)

Eva

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Oooooooh!

Teddy

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

How so? I thought tablet weaving went much further back than this tunic?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Yes, but as I said in the post, patterns were made by turning individual tablets or groups of tablets. This ribbon gets it's pattern from teh way the threads are put in the tablets and all of them are turned at once. This is the way it is mostly done by re-enactors, but not the way it was done in the middle ages.

Eva