miracles of procrastination

[ursula]

Today, in great feats of not doing enough math, I managed to do laundry, bake bread with cumin, go grocery shopping, find a restaurant that worked for both a vegetarian and someone fond of huge hunks of meat (Brouwers Cafe; many things are possible if the vegetarian is content to derive a large fraction of his calories from beer), and web my documentation of the relic pouch for alaric and thechemgoddess (it would be great to have some more photos, if any have been taken?). I also scanned one of the brown silk gloves I've knitted-- it's sixteenth-century in construction, though I don't see any reason why the same sort of glove wouldn't have been possible a century or two earlier.

I also scanned a couple of pictures from A History of Academical Dress in Europe Until the Eighteenth Century by W.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, who wins a particular prize for having a name which parodies itself: one fifteenth-century image of academics, and one glossary illustration of a tabard, which demonstrates that Hargreaves-Mawdsley's definition of a tabard does not match any of the tabards I have seen. I actually have a bright purple overtunic (though my own mistakes in washing gave it unfortunately pink trim), and I can knit a hat with an acorn top, so perhaps the next step is a hood?

Comments

[reasie.livejournal.com]

That pouch looks lovely. I'd love to see it with the tassels!

[ursula]

Ask Alaric to show you :)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Wow, nice work on the glove.

[ursula]

Thank you!

[gwacie.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you've any links on-line to pictures of the actual swiss pouches? I'd ask you to scan and post from books but that would be a violation of copyright and I'm lawful good. ;)

[ursula]

The only pictures I know of are in a catalogue of Swiss ecclesiastical textiles, written in German, which I got via interlibrary loan. (Rutt's History of Hand Knitting charts the patterns but doesn't have an actual photograph.) I did scan one of the Swiss photos for private consumption, since I had to return the book. Would sending it to you privately as an educational use satisfy your lawful goodness? If so, you can e-mail me at ursula at farreaches dot org.