tirsdag den 13. juli 2010
needle binding
Islandic monks shoe

Found this in Akureyri museum in Island

tirsdag den 18. maj 2010
kinesisk brokadevæv
søndag den 16. maj 2010
fredag den 14. maj 2010
Plimoth Plantation
Kollega på Plimoth Plantation håndsyer en 1620 dragt. Der er 2 ansatte på deres systue, plus en række frivillige, som holder landsbyens faste medarbejdere med autentisk tøj. søndag den 11. april 2010
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fredag den 29. januar 2010
Hand spun and hand woven
Just returned from India, and look what I found: A really wonderfull textile, handspun and handwoven, tabby, z-spun. It comes in two natural, undyed colors, white and brown. It will be on display at the dyers house, and of course there will be made garments of it too.
tirsdag den 15. december 2009
Broderet bogomslag
onsdag den 4. november 2009
Winter habitation experiment in december
In short: We're starting up with winter habitation experiments again. Between Christmas and New Years Eve four houses will be lived in 100% medieval style.
Optælling og reparationer

onsdag den 16. september 2009
Knitted purse
Knitting is not a textile technique normally allowed at the Medieval Centre. Certainly not when it is modern socks, mittens and the like.
But knitting did exist around the year 1400.
Though never found in Denmark, there are archaological evidence of knitted tektiles from northern Germany from the 14th and 15th century. It could have been known in Denmark too. Problem is, that we don’t really know what the knitted pieces actually were.
Then we have the nice knitted little purses from i.e. Sion, Switzerland. See http://spindlesend.net/sionsilkpurse.htm
Spending 11 hours on a train travelling to a conference in Sweeden, I just had to try knitting a purse. Not beeing very skilled as a knitter, I decided to start using wool, instead of ruining several metres of expensive silk, a very nice, thin tread of embroidery wool, though.
It should be 16 stitches to the inch, that is, 16 stitches to 2,5 cm. The needles proved to be troublesome, the local store could only provide what they called size 2 needles, supposedly the thinnest you can get in Denmark (?) The result was 16 stitches to 2,8 cm.
Strangely enough the Sion purses are guite big, in lengh 8 1/8-13 3/8 inches = 20,6-33,8 cm and in width 6 1/4-10 3/8 inches = 15,9-26,2 cm
Well, I didn’t guite finish the purse, it’ll have to wait till the next time I travel a really long time by train. And anyway, I can't use the purse, being made in wool instead of silk and supposedly being a purse for relics.
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