I reproduced the cuffs on the Holbein portrait of Queen > Jane. On 60 count linen.
Oh my! What was your stitch to ground ratio? And loved it. And have been doing it ever since. > At any rate, peerages back then were pretty much all drive-by's, > with a > little more attention paid to the Chiv. No warning, no special > outfits, no > vigils, nada. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am...next? sort of thing. > The day I > got nabbed was at an event with really horrible, muddy weather, and > I knew > *something* was up, because someone who'd been trying to get my > whole name > down (spelling and pronunciation) was a little TOO obvious. (My SCA > name is > in an older form of Irish, and it's long, and pretty unpronouncable > to most > Sasenachs ;o). Court that night was held in a small building, > without > electricity, just a few coleman lanterns. My reaction, when I > realized it > was me, and what they were doing, was pretty much "oh, shit!" (in a > nice > way). The scroll was a marker-colored photocopy on some sort of > dreadful > fake parchment, the ink of which ran in the rain that weekend. The > king and > queen, who happened to be from the Sun and also happened to be the > same > people who'd given me an AoA a couple of years before, were later > banished > from the Society. How bizarre. I am moderately sure I'm mostly a blackwork > laurel > because that was one thing mentioned in the ceremony, although I was > really > involved in other things as well (late period costuming, primarily, > and some > cooking). It's just that I'm mostly known for itsy-bitsy blackwork. > I > adore the simplicity and clarity of monochrome embroidery, and would > really > love to do some extended research into the various forms it takes in > different ethnic groups--contrasting, say, the different styles of > early and > late 16th century England, with Spanish, and German, and Italian, > and > French, and all of the loverly, loverly Islamic stuff...*sigh* ;o) I'm with you. Blackwork has zip nada zilch to do with my persona, but I love its crispness and surprisingly simple elegance--it's just a matter of breaking down the pattern elements. Have you found any evidence of blackwork (in any permutation) in England prior to the Tudors? > I should add, my Pelican ceremony (that's a service award, for you > non-SCAers) was even stranger. I seem to attract weirdness. (in a > nice way) > --Sue Time for another storytelling. :-) I was Pel'd sitting down (I can't kneel), for "I suffer from a surfiet of height whereas Her Majesty does not." My "circlet" was a beautiful scholar's hood, and Her Majesty had to be able to reach! Arlys _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
