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

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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... :) )

Comments

[mrsbrown.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha!!!!

I was just following links myself. I'm feeling all inspired to make an embroidered pouch and got really excited about that Wymarc site.

I was dreaming about getting doushkasmum to give me an embroidery lesson so I could make one.

Then I read your post and got excited about the huge coincidence that we were looking at the same site.

Oh well, at least it's all my fault :)