I like the fact that the lady uses an electric poking-stick (I can understand
enough of the text to make that out)!
British clergy don't wear ruffs, but some boy choristers wear pleated neckbands
or other styles of archaic neckwear. My friends' son who was head chorister at
Chichester Cathedral
If you're talking about the woman on the right, that's not a ruff per
se, but rather a goffered veil, where a small ruffle has been woven into
the edge of the veil as part of the cloth (there are a number of
theories on how this was done) and the cloth is folded back and forth
over the head a few
Oh rats! We were going to try this ourselves. If you do find any links or
sources who you know have done this but don't have anything up online, we'd
love to know.
Thanks,
Sg
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THANKS, Robin, those are great links!!
I have a Danish friend and I've just asked her if she could translate for us.
Might take a little while, but probably sooner than getting the busy people at
the Center to get to it...
So nice to see these; commercial variants are now available in the US
At 16:38 25/09/2007, you wrote:
Oh rats! We were going to try this ourselves. If you do find any links or
sources who you know have done this but don't have anything up online, we'd
love to know.
This article presents an in-depth analysis of the veil style and a
proposed weaving method
Oh gosh Robin, thanks a lot for that link. It is very very interresting, and
my how fantastic that they still have such old veils preserved!
I didnt know they made such wonderfull magazines at the medieval center.
Bjarne
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Small world -- (doi.) It was Camilla who contacted me originally to do some
work on a related paper for this type of weaving. We were successful in
doing something similar for a Vach, just by taking a flour sack towel and
stretching the edges. It distorted enough to make the smaller crinkles
Small world -- (doi.) It was Camilla who contacted me originally to do some
work on a related paper for this type of weaving. We were successful in
doing something similar for a Vach, just by taking a flour sack towel and
stretching the edges. It distorted enough to make the smaller
On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
I thought I had saved it but now I can't find the article someone
posted about an ancient beaded Egyptian dress that was discovered
some time ago. It included a photo of the garment. I wanted to
show my class. Anyone have the link, if
