Shopping trim for my bliaut
Jun. 7th, 2004 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisWe survived this weekend's medieval market and sleeping away from home. Maja still has problems with her tummy so I didn't get much sleep. My mum helped a lot though and my sister and her boyfriend were absolute angels and took care of the twins all weekend. Not that they needed much looking after during the market. They ran around by themselves and spent money they got from me and their grandmother. I managed to sell some clothes that the twins and I have outgrown. I sold them very cheaply, between 50 and 200 swedish crowns (c. 7-25 $), because my main objective was to get more space in my closet, not to make money.
My own shopping was limited to a piece of brown herringbone linen to make a baby sling (as can be seen on the 13th c illumination in the top right corner on this web page) and some more trim that I'm going to use on my green silk bliaut. I had found this great trim in Visby, but unfortunately there was only 2 metres of it. However, the same merchant came to this market and now they had more of it and I bought an additional 4 metres. Here you can see how it looks, placed on the green silk. The picture isn't too good, but you get the idea. I also took a picture of my
blue silk taffeta together with the trim I'm going to use for another bliaut. It might be hard to see, but the pattern on the trim is peacocks and in my opinion it looks a lot like byzantine patterns of the time.
This post has taken two hours to write, due to Maja not being very happy, so I'm endign it now, while she's contently lying on the floor.
My own shopping was limited to a piece of brown herringbone linen to make a baby sling (as can be seen on the 13th c illumination in the top right corner on this web page) and some more trim that I'm going to use on my green silk bliaut. I had found this great trim in Visby, but unfortunately there was only 2 metres of it. However, the same merchant came to this market and now they had more of it and I bought an additional 4 metres. Here you can see how it looks, placed on the green silk. The picture isn't too good, but you get the idea. I also took a picture of my
blue silk taffeta together with the trim I'm going to use for another bliaut. It might be hard to see, but the pattern on the trim is peacocks and in my opinion it looks a lot like byzantine patterns of the time.
This post has taken two hours to write, due to Maja not being very happy, so I'm endign it now, while she's contently lying on the floor.
