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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2005/11/08 Tue PM 11:55:54 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Brocade piece at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art > > > > Just checked my copie of EPAC (Nancy's book) and apparently the piece is > "a fragment of the band used to make the infulae on a mitre now in the > Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg". So presumably the mitre itself is more > securely dated? > > Yes, the mitre, if I remember correctly, is 12th century. > > So the band was kept for 400 years to become part of a 12th Century mitre? That's amazing. And where was the mitre from? Is it from Switzerland? > > Anyway, this brings to my mind the arguments in certain English > re-enactment societies as to whether Anglo-Saxons should wear > tablet-woven bands. I guess this band suggests that yes they can, so > long as they are made of silk using 108 tablets and you portray a bishop! > > > Of course you can wear brocaded TW bands if you are reenacting Anglo-Saxons! > The earliest brocaded bands we have date from 7th-century England. Please > see Chapter One of EPAC. Absolutely! What I'm less sure of is whether the Saxons wore much of the simpler, more everyday stuff (apart from the St John's fragment). > > Nancy > > > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > Nancy Spies > Arelate Studio > _www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio.html_ > (http://www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio.html) > > Save the earth; it's the only planet with chocolate. > > "But if by 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, > someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares > about > the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, > their > jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes > we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our > policies > abroad, if that is what they mean by 'Liberal,' then I'm proud to say I'm a > 'Liberal'." John F. Kennedy, 14 Sept 1960 > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information Send private reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
