More fabric
Mar. 27th, 2004 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisI don't know if I've told you that I wasn't going to buy any more fabric. Well, that was my plan and firm decision anyway. I guess you know how it went?
Today I went to a market that's held in in three large stables that used to belong to one of the regiments her in town. It's open saturdays and sundays and you can rent space and sell your owns stuff there if you want to. Most of the stuff you can buy are used things, everything from computers (possibly stolen) to tableware from the 70s and a lot of other things. There is also this wonderful indian family who sells fabric. Sari fabric, brocades for curtains and lots of thin silks as well as horrible synthetic fabrics. We go there mostly to get cheap very thin silk for veils. But today they also had a lovely dark yellow rather heavy felted wool. So I'm now ca 100$ poorer or maybe 4,5 metres yellow wool richer.
I don't know what to do with it yet, but I'm thinking about making a very warm dress for winter events. I mostly have dresses of thinner wool and the wind, which frequently is both cold and hard here in SW Sweden, blows through them. This fabric will stop the wind however, especially since I plan to line the dress with thin very dark maroon wool twill that I have quite a lot of.
There is a nice example of a yellow dress in the Codex Manesse (there are more yellow dresses than this, maybe two or three women's dresses) that I think I will make. If you look at the picture you will see that the yellow dress, which is in the upper left corner, has horizontal stripes and dots, suggesting an embroidery, across the chest and arms. There are other examples of this type of decoration in some other pictures by the same illuminator in the manuscript (three different illuminators worked on the manuscript, this is the chronologically latest) and the stripes are evenly distributed over the whole dress. I'm thinking about using cord and pearls.
I won't do it before autumn however, because it will not be needed until November.
I also bought some Enid Blyton books for my kids and then we went home to one of my friends and had way too many peanut butter sandwiches.
Today I went to a market that's held in in three large stables that used to belong to one of the regiments her in town. It's open saturdays and sundays and you can rent space and sell your owns stuff there if you want to. Most of the stuff you can buy are used things, everything from computers (possibly stolen) to tableware from the 70s and a lot of other things. There is also this wonderful indian family who sells fabric. Sari fabric, brocades for curtains and lots of thin silks as well as horrible synthetic fabrics. We go there mostly to get cheap very thin silk for veils. But today they also had a lovely dark yellow rather heavy felted wool. So I'm now ca 100$ poorer or maybe 4,5 metres yellow wool richer.
I don't know what to do with it yet, but I'm thinking about making a very warm dress for winter events. I mostly have dresses of thinner wool and the wind, which frequently is both cold and hard here in SW Sweden, blows through them. This fabric will stop the wind however, especially since I plan to line the dress with thin very dark maroon wool twill that I have quite a lot of.
There is a nice example of a yellow dress in the Codex Manesse (there are more yellow dresses than this, maybe two or three women's dresses) that I think I will make. If you look at the picture you will see that the yellow dress, which is in the upper left corner, has horizontal stripes and dots, suggesting an embroidery, across the chest and arms. There are other examples of this type of decoration in some other pictures by the same illuminator in the manuscript (three different illuminators worked on the manuscript, this is the chronologically latest) and the stripes are evenly distributed over the whole dress. I'm thinking about using cord and pearls.
I won't do it before autumn however, because it will not be needed until November.
I also bought some Enid Blyton books for my kids and then we went home to one of my friends and had way too many peanut butter sandwiches.
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Date: 2004-03-27 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-28 01:17 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2004-03-28 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-29 12:51 am (UTC)The yellow wool sounds scrummy - but then I'm biassed when it comes to yellow (and green)
Teddy
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Date: 2004-03-29 01:35 am (UTC)I read the books yesterday and I was surprised that I didn't remember that they were so sexist. I mean, Edith Nesbit (another all-time favourite) who wrote 50 years earlier had a less stereotyped image of girls and boys. I still like them. but I'm not sure if they're good for my daughters to read. And how am I'm going to explain the equally stereotyped view Blyton has on gypsies (and even to some extent the welsh)?