Hugh, You might want to put them in contact with Steven Siegel. He is the proprietor of Siegel Leathers (formerly Siegel of California). He is semi-retired and...
Great! Thanks very much. This is the guy I bought those steaks from at Pennsic last year. ... -- They told me to "get a life". So I got one. Now I have no time...
Super! I feel like Steven Siegel is a font of information and could set him going in the right direction. There definitely is a market for hides raised in an...
He's also looking at selling their horns. Some of them have lovely great horns, so I need to see if I can put him in touch with people who can use raw horn. ...
once upon a time i taught a class on medieval herbs and their uses. i was absolutely gob smacked when a young lady told me they were all natural and, thus,...
on the field of battle one would go from weaving to dying. in my house it's the other way round. i have used an inkle loom for years but i recently set...
Greetings from Quintavia! Once again this year we will be hosting Hrim Schola, the East Kingdom's premier fiber arts learning event. Last year we had ten...
Yes. Sorry about the spelling. I started this thread with a question two years ago, was corrected on the spelling right away, and the conversation lived a ...
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Feb 2, 2013 10:55 pm
Oops, three years ago. :-) ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Feb 2, 2013 10:58 pm
Except that I couldn't have gotten bright colors on linen or cotton? Sigh. Confusing. Asther ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Cotton was grown in al-Andalus, Muslim Spain, and i would suspect it was traded with Christian Spain. There are entire books written on Andalusi trade, so...
Heheheheh.. I wasn't consciously correcting the spelling. It was a convention that grew up on an email list in the late 1990s where we always used the upper...
Actually, I believe cotton dyes quite easily. It is on linen that most (natural) dyes don't take. Vasilisa ... From: Andrea AskenDunn <askendunn@...> ...
That Lord Hugh Tauerner, my A&S 50 Minion in chief, and the Kingdom Coordinator for us here in the East, was inducted into the East Kingdom's Order of the...
And that's what happens when you lend your friends a hand here and there so as not to get bored and thus cause trouble. Photos from the event are here: ...
Oh, ans I hope you haven't taken the medallion off yet, you need to keep wearing for at least 24 hours so it really will take... ;) Luke ... [Non-text...
Still wearing it. :) ... -- They told me to "get a life". So I got one. Now I have no time to do anything! Fiber arts blog: http://hughtauerner.blogspot.com/ ...
... Trying to dye cotton is as difficult as trying to dye linen, as both are cellulose fibers and they don't take most natural dyes. They can be colored, but...
i have finished a second tablet weaving project. i was trying for the ram's horn pattern but the directions i was using are apparently not as accurate as i...
I taught two new classes at the Stellar University of Northshield in Rockhaven. More at http://kudrun.blogspot.com/ Now, should I clean the house or plan a...
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Feb 12, 2013 9:44 pm
Ha ha, silly question! Plan, of course! :-) Asther de Perpinya On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:34 AM, kudrun.pilegrim <kudrun.pilegrim@... ... [Non-text...
an odd question from way out in left field.... From the research I've been doing on charcuterie, sausage-making, and the curing of various meat-related body...
