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House is all clean, all inspected, all done.
Bit anti-climactic really.

But there are sweeping vistas of clean floors you can now safely lay out clean fabric...

So, trim bliaut skirt length - even when correctly hiked up there is still about 20 cm trailing on the ground and hopefully that will reduce the weight down somewhat.
Then there is the silk... (light weight ex-sleeping bag liner)
What have people found to be good/comfortable dimensions for (12th C) oval veils? Race track ie circles at either end separated by long straight bits or more elliptical or what? What sits best around the top of the head? Or should I drape/cut light weight scrap fabric til it sits nice and work off that? Will probably end up being pinned to linen bands.

But will be good and go and pay gas and electricity bills and get milk before playing.

Edit: And after finishing the cord, bliaut fits well and wrinkles in the right places...
But can't do anything til I find the good scissors. They got tidied away somewhere...

Way cool...

Doco on the battle of Trafalgar - must be a repeat given daylight tv.
(Upon checking, Battlefield Detectives, which has been rather irritating in some of its coverage of various medieval battles - shonky archery testing etc. This one appears more fun. Too late to tape though.)

But they actually still have one of the sails from the Victory.

They want to know the sort and rate of fire she was under as the lead ship in the charge.

So, what else are you going to do than make a replica flax canvas sail, get a cannon and fire different types of shot at it... And then play match the hole types and shapes.

I wanna do that...

Aside: Wonder where they got their flax canvas from. Would be great for tents... What? What do you mean enough canvas?

How it looks

( Piccies of bias cut bliaut and silk veil on )