Just another SCA stuffpage
I had so much fun with the placemats that I wove during an introductory 4-harness weaving class that I took on a much more ambitious project next. I obtained a set of patterns from Mistress Nicolette and set out to weave myself
a length of cloth of sufficient quantity to make a Viking apron dress. I chose a broken diamond twill pattern and started in weaving. I even entered it in an SCA Arts & Sciences display, so there’s some actual documentation for it!
Ever being the kind of gal who’d teach myself new things, I had been studying card weaving texts available online for some time, but having trouble grasping the three dimensional process from two dimensional
instructions. Then one day I was visiting Uncle Thorson and he had a card weaving loom leaning in a corner of his living room. The lights went off, and it finally dawned on me what the drawings were trying to show. Not long after that my dearest gave me a card weaving kit and the results are here for all to see.
So I wanted to put my hair up in a net, but I’d read that crochet wasn’t exactly used in period for hairnets and all the ones I could find for sale were crocheted. So I did some research and found some instructions on how to make hairnets using the netting stitch that was used in some of the hairnets found in the Thames. Here’s my first one made out of a heavy string that I found at a posh needlework store in Boston.
