I finished!

I bought a pair of brass buckles made by Nina so now my garters are finished!

Last two weekends I spent in Bern as a guest of Company of Saynte George. It was magical time with a new and old friends. We participated in a huge exposition about Charles the Bold organized by Historical Museum of Berne (see this web page).

Tubular tablet-woven braids

At last I try to make some tubular woven braids using technique described in "Textiles and clothing 1150-1450" on page 135. My braids was worked on 3 four-hole tablets, threaded all in a S-way and turned one turn forwards after each passage of the weft. The weft was passed always through the same side.
First time I used one colour threads ( red, madder dyed), second time I combined indigo blue and reseda yellow silk threads.

a pair of silk garters

The garters are 60 cm long and 1.6 cm wide. I made them using silk thread, madder dyeing. Weaving technique simulated striped damask.
They need just two nice buckles :)

tiny clothes

During a last two weeks I researched iconography looking for late medieval children clothes, especially linen tunics or shirts. I decided to reconstruct two types of them - simple, classic shape tunic and shirt with open front and short sleeves.

shopping...

A month ago I ordered natural dyed silk threads and they arrived last week. Colours are amazing-yellow, orange and green silk are unbelieveble bright!

medieval bread?

I bought this bread in Turkish shop. It's amazing, but the shape of this bread is still the same as in medieval times. This is white, wheat flour bread with yeast added (as a starter). I found very interesting recipe here: http://www.coquinaria.nl/english/recipes/MEbread.htm
After comparing (I'm not sure) I suppose that recipe is almost unchanged :)