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We had some purple silk fabric - perfect for roman tunica.

No can find.
We found apple green silk (2.5m so too short), brown silk (2.8m so still too short, but might get way with it), ivory bridal silk (too stiff and Z had bags that anyway), coarse green silk (too heavy and more Z's thing again), green silk/linen satin (too stiff), brown silk/linen satin (ditto), white tussa silk in various forms.
And large amounts of wool.
But no purple silk.
Did we give it away?

Thurs: rehenna time. Used cheap henna from Brisbane. Not as good as Piccos. At least it isn't a couple inches of brown regrowth though.

Fri: Z back to work so I spent the day surfing, reading up on hoods (bloody lirapipes), and sewing. Phonecall re job applications: interview (for both at once) on the 19th - they will send more details later. Evening started well heading out to dinner, but very bad stomach cramps (starting as we were heading there) put an end to that for me - profuse sweating and an interesting shade of white/green didn't help. Rest of the evening was spent curled up with a book and direct access to the loo. Kicked Z off back to rejoin people since I wasn't going to be scintilating company*. Sounds as though people had fun and the food was good.

Sat: Up and about but still feeling odd with temperature sensing screwed. Tour of antique shops. Some suprisingly cheap, others amazingly expensive. Various people looted and I resisted a book. Made mediocre kangaroo casserole for dinner and the rest of the evening was so uneventful that I can't remember what happened.

Sun: No longer feeling odd. This is good. General fortnightly cleaning frenzy. Met with one of my NZ PhD supervisors (over here visiting family) to discuss a paper or two in progress. The ratio is currently one paper to 2-3 years discussion, so must be about time to pull finger out again. Need to arrange meeting after CF. Checked fabric chests (yay for lists at the top of each chest) and located linen for undertunic. Gosh we have some nice wools and silks we should get around to doing something with. Not quite at the stage of dragging them out and rolling in them, but definitely handling/fondling them. Oilskin first, silks/wool after Festival...

Z is off into the field til Thurs(?), so I see a lot of sewing in my future.

* Sometimes when you are ill you want company, and other times you really don't...

I bought fabric (though not 500m of oilskin or canvas...)
Mopey morning mood was very well distracted by a trip to the new place to clear out the letter box and check that it hasn't been burnt down or anything. Then I got introduced to a local dangerous fabric store. Mostly it was safe (prices a bit higher than I tend towards) til we went upstairs. Weakness found.
I paid more than $10 a metre for wool...
However it was 190cm wide medium to light weight brown red wool with a woven in diamond pattern - I have been looking such woven in patterns for ages since they are far more applicable to early period fabrics which weren't fulled. So, $15 a metre, but only 3 m needed for 2 garments.
So, another 3 m of wool for the stash. Will start on making stuff with it as soon as I finish the blue linen tunic.
Oops...

Since we sorta got more fabric while back in NZ (oops, we fell into Bedford Row twice - the second time cause they were willing to offer us the $4 per m sale deal a little early), the fabric list has needed updating. It says something when a spreadsheet is needed/useful. Updated LJ link is here and both the fabric list entries are now under the memories (which probably noone but me and basal_surge cares about). And for my reference, the spreadsheet is filed under medievalstuff.

But it does mean that after updating for usage and sale, the fabric collection is up to:
66.6m wool
29.55m silk*
27.3m linen*
18m cotton
+ other stuff
= 148.35m total (excluding the ~6m of wool on the bed... and the canvas bits which fill a large moving box)
* ~6m Silk warp, linen weft is classed under silk but could go under either.

4 chests of fabric + boxes of scraps and bits and odds and sods.

I should point put that we did get rid of about 10m of cotton drill and other stuff last night.

Hoard, what hoard... Behind the garage is starting to fill up and we haven't even started putting books down there.

( Cause not all of you are interested in how many acres of linen, wool and silk Z and I own... )
Argh, that was just one chest. One more chest and 4+ boxes to go. And that doesn't include the wool pieces for cloaks etc currently in use on our and R's beds.
Evil biology.