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frualeydisIt has apparently been way to long since I made 16th c clothes. I couldn't find enough linen strips with selvedges in my cupboard to make wrist ruffs. Fortunately I had some linen where I hadn't torn off the selvedges yet.
And that's the thing, two years ago I would have torn of those strips as soon as I had washed the linen fabric and put them away, but I apparently haven't thought about that for a long time.
I also buy too fine linen these days, because a lot of my linen is too thin and soft (almost see-through) and has selvedges that aren't neat enough.
Today I was going to buy ribbon to bind the cuffs of my kirtle sleeves. I asked for cheap "silk" ribbons in normal two-shed, plain weave. And she says: Do you mean satin ribbons? If I had meant satin I would have said it, wouldn't I? Apparently she didn't know that two-shed, satin, twill and grosgrain are different types of weave. Sigh.
They only had grosgrain that matched anyway, so grosgrain it is.
Anyway, I almost finished the neck ruff yesterday and I must say it looks really nice. It's a rather narrow ruff with the left lace that can be seen in my discontinued diary on a flemish gown attached to a ca 3 cm linen strip.
Well, back to work! I'm writing about voyeurism in an early 14th c romance
And that's the thing, two years ago I would have torn of those strips as soon as I had washed the linen fabric and put them away, but I apparently haven't thought about that for a long time.
I also buy too fine linen these days, because a lot of my linen is too thin and soft (almost see-through) and has selvedges that aren't neat enough.
Today I was going to buy ribbon to bind the cuffs of my kirtle sleeves. I asked for cheap "silk" ribbons in normal two-shed, plain weave. And she says: Do you mean satin ribbons? If I had meant satin I would have said it, wouldn't I? Apparently she didn't know that two-shed, satin, twill and grosgrain are different types of weave. Sigh.
They only had grosgrain that matched anyway, so grosgrain it is.
Anyway, I almost finished the neck ruff yesterday and I must say it looks really nice. It's a rather narrow ruff with the left lace that can be seen in my discontinued diary on a flemish gown attached to a ca 3 cm linen strip.
Well, back to work! I'm writing about voyeurism in an early 14th c romance