Useful stuff when working on an embroidered pouch (and other random cool links)

A Stitch Out of Time: 14th and 15th Century German Counted Thread Embroidery by Master Richard Wymarc (Timothy J. Mitchell)
The patterns and scans from said article

Photos of someone else's versions (http://machteld-embroidery.blogspot.com/'s photos)
Her pouch seam finishing and references. (The full collection of her 14th-15th c embroidered pouch posts here.)

Embroidered pouches from The Middelaldercentret Textiles project. Stuff from there on Turks head knots on pouches (knot instructions here)
Middelaldercentret Textile Blog (in Danish...) here

Making the cord for making the Turks heads.
Tassles with Turk's head knots (see image on the Middelaltercentret Turks head link for extant examples)

Oh and an article (pdf) on Medieval incendiary device experimentation here...

Some very well done 14th C stuff.
And some other people doing very nice 14th C stuff (De Liebaart) and some photos of their stuff.

(All of which was started with this post by mrsbrown and it was all following links and (some useful) distraction from there... :) )

Weekend summary

Apart from link chasing and distraction (see previous post)...

Sat: Slept in. Mary Potter Hospice shop and a stack of $1 books - Barbara Hambly and Elizabeth H Boyer + others. Antique Arms show in Lower Hutt. Groceries. Moore Wilson and BIG pots. Home. Blob, dinner and then went and talked with dragonermine for the rest of the evening. Up far too late after surfing net.

Sun: Slept in more. Yum Char (bit later than would have liked - boo finding parking in centre of town). Global Fabrics (last of 50% off sale - got 10m of off white linen), Arty Bees (more books incl Time Team site report), Moore Wilson (the good dutch cocoa @ ~$13 per kg), arms discussions, home, dinner, surfing and general distraction (again, see previous post for links).

Time for less surfing and more embroidery (the pouch continued).