Projects in 2009 - a summary

[liadethornegge]

As with last year, I was not madly productive, but I do have a bit of a list.

The year started off with scribal assignments, and the first projects I can put on my list are from April.

1. Queen's Order of Courtesy scroll for Lady Trinite Ducalon (Scribal poject #21)
   



2. Golden Ribbon (Nordmark A&S award) scroll for Viscountess Filippa Birgersdotter (Scribal poject #22)
   
   



3. For Double Wars in May I did the year's third scroll, an Award of Arms for Niamh of Gisburne (Scribal poject #23)
   



4. In June I finished the forehead cloth and coif set for Mistress Helwig Ulfsdotter's Laurel elevation. I still don't have a good set of photos of this organized. I am sure I have taken some, but I'll be damned if I know where I put them.
   



5. In July I whipped together one quick brocade 16th Century kirtle (which is too small for me and not pictured anywhere),


6. and one previously cut out half-sleeved GFD in a forest green wool (also not pictured).


7. I also finished (to a wearable state) the GFD made from Mistress Mathilde's remotely fitted pattern in a gorgeous rust-coloured wool,
   



8. After a bit of sewing I decided to experiment with brick stitch embroidery, and made a little pincushion in September.
   



9. With an inability to say no, in October I accepted two last minute scroll assignments and made two Lindquistringe scrolls for Viscountess Yrla Kristersdotter and her lord,
   



10. Sir Cormac Lawless O'Toole respectively. (Numbered 25 and 26 in my internal scribal project counter.)
    



11. October continued to be productive as I made another brick stitch pincushion.
    
    



12. And a working linen apron, with my first bit of smocking.
    



13. Finally, in December I decided I had not finished anything interesting for a long while and cut out and made up a simple Layton style jacket in grey wool, lined with linen. I am still debating pulling out the lining and replacing it with silk or the like, and it has no closing mechanism yet either.



14. Also finished in December, but started much earlier, another set with elizabethan coif and forehead cloth for Mary verch Thomas Pelican elevation.
    



15. And for my final project, another one for the giftbasket, a Sture shirt for Princess Willhelmina Weydehartz.

Comments

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Wow! I love these end-of-year project posts. You made so many pretty things!

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Yeah, all pulled together it seems to be more than I remember doing :)

[vikingsparrow.livejournal.com]

Go you! It's very nice to see all those photos in the list.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And I subscribe to the notion that a list of finished objects is not worth doing without photos!

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

You're full of win!

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you.

Not included in this list are the unfinished, but promised projects of course. Helwig's Laurel scroll premiere among them.

[carrot-khan.livejournal.com]

Is it possible to get a pic of the correct way to wear both forehead cloth and coif?

Its very lovely, by the way. All of it, in fact.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

Well, I have a couple of photos of ladies wearing sets in the proper manner. First, Viscountess Filippa:
http://tworavens.org/gallery/main.php/v/hostedphotos/liathornegge/2009Hagnan/2009HagnanFri_025.jpg.html
http://tworavens.org/gallery/main.php/v/hostedphotos/liathornegge/2009Hagnan/2009HagnanSat_085.jpg.html
You see that both coif and forehead cloth are edged with white lace. Only the long edge of the forehead cloth has lace, because that is what goes to the front, and the rest of the cloth gets covered by the coif.

And here's my Laurel, Helwig, wearing just the coif, showing how you tie it on your head:
http://tworavens.org/gallery/main.php/v/hostedphotos/liathornegge/2009Glota/2009GlotaV_63.jpg.html

The forehead cloth always goes on first, if you wear it. You can go with just the coif as well.

[carrot-khan.livejournal.com]

Lovely photos! Thank you. I don't know if I've ever seen/heard of the forehead cloth in usage before. Was there a reason for this? A modesty issue perhaps? Just a regional custom? (have I asked this before?)

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Well, the fashion is fairly late in the 16th Century, and the coifs become more and more decorated, more precious materials, metals etc.

The forehead cloth serves two purposes, to protect the more complicated coif from body and hair, and to cover the hairline completely, which you can see from Helwig's photo the coif does not do sufficiently, thanks to the pleasing curve in the front edge.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Oh, and if you look at the photo of Mary's pelican forehead cloth, you will notice that I only embroidered the long, front edge, with buttonhole stitch. Just as I would've only attach lace on that edge if I'd had any more :)

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[eowyna.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Thank you for posting them all, with pictures! I like that idea so much that I may have to go back and add photos to my list.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you.

I mentioned before that a post about a finished item becomes fifty times more interesting with photos, so I try my best never to post such a report without having taken the shots first.

I shall be anticipating your picture-update then ;)

I thik this will be interesting for you

[ungrim.livejournal.com]

http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=msbodl264
There are a lot of pictures with manuscripts in great quality. :)

Re: I thik this will be interesting for you

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed, that is a fantastic resource that I come back to using over and over! Thanks for posting the link.