I've never heard of this woven frilled edge before. I
expect it explains the complex but seamless frill on
the veil in the Arnolfini Wedding portrait, wouldn't
it?
http://www.virtue.to/articles/images/1434_arnolfini_lady_sm.jpg
or
http://tinyurl.com/39cq3c
MaggiRos
Vikings? What Vikings? We are
I've never heard of this woven frilled edge before. I expect it explains the
complex but seamless frill on the veil in the Arnolfini Wedding portrait,
wouldn't it?
http://www.virtue.to/articles/images/1434_arnolfini_lady_sm.jpg or
http://tinyurl.com/39cq3c
Van Eyck painted a number of
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
