Grace with Yarn

 I've been working to build up my documentation for an upcoming competition and have found my way to an amazing site.   ATN/ATR Publications  is The Archeological Textiles Review and they post their articles on line for free. Just skimming through the titles of some articles have me intrigued and there's a ton of people I want to tag who may be just as interested.  Subjects from Viking drop spindles, loom weights, recreations of Roman garb and more are all catching my eye. In Review #60, Jane Malcolm-Davies wrote a fantastic article called Sticks, stones, fingers and bones: Nurturing knitting and the other neglected non-wovens.  This article shows that I chose poorly with my choice of the funeral pillow for reconstruction as there are only 2 documented knit pillows that have been cataloged by museums.  Both were found at the same monastery in Spain.  That being said, she did list a page and a half of her own bibliography that I'm hoping th...

 I've been steadily working on my project for Kingdom A&S.  Not posting any pictures until after the competition at this point.  First time I'll be competing on this level and honestly, pretty nervous. At Yule yesterday, over the course of multiple conversations, I got some new directions to go for my documentation.  I got dinged on my documentation at my first St. Eligius competition, so I want to make sure I do it right for this level. I'm working off of an extant piece and recreating it.  Only problem is that I cannot find any other examples of the thing EXCEPT for the one I have.  Textile archeology (which is fascinating), took me to some different textile museums...who don't have pictures of their collections online.  Then I found my way to Archeological Textiles Review, which sounds great and could be so informative.  And then I keep banging my head against things that are woven but tagged as knit.  So, being smart and stepping away...