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Sarah

Maker of pretty things

Interests: Historic re-enactment, fiber arts, baking, yoga, front-end software development

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This blog is moving! Find me at greetsmiddleages.com

Since I'm playing again, and doing research again, I thought I'd update the format and location of the blog. New posts will appear at greetsmiddleages.com. I've already moved a few posts from this location, and will be moving more, and... Continue reading

Posted Jun 13, 2017 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Help me put a sail on The Byrdraka!

We want to put a yardarm and sail on the boat, and I need YOUR HELP to learn how! Continue reading

Posted Apr 6, 2017 at Greet's Middle Ages

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What is Art For? Why Bother?

"We believe that the main reason to study history is to rescue certain good, provocative, and inspiring ideas that have been lost in the past, in order to put them to use in relation to the dilemmas and problems of our own times." Continue reading

Posted Mar 24, 2017 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Researching and re-learning the basics of Sprang

Sprang is a way of making fabric that I think of as being the inverse of knitting. If knitting is all horizontal threads, that are distorted to create vertical links, sprang is all vertical threads, that are distorted to create horizontal links. Similar to knitting, sprang is very drapey and will flex in its structure to contain a lumpy mass. (Like a pile of hair.) Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2017 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Introducing my Sprang Hairnet project! The find, and why I wanted one

The Borum Eshoj and Egtved dig documentation showed hairnets made with a technique called sprang, and it occurred to me that a hairnet might work as well to conceal short hair as to corral long. Continue reading

Posted Mar 10, 2017 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Metal clay instruction found!

I've found an instructor for metal clay! (2 spots left for Cindy Miller's June 3 class, at Lowe Mill...) Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2017 at Greet's Middle Ages

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When last we left our heroes... 2017 reboot

So that's what you'll find here: I'm continuing my Bronze Age impression projects, but also including past arts from the New World, and post-1600. Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2017 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Tuam construction details

I recently got a request for details about one detail of my tuam project. Hope these pictures are helpful! Continue reading

Posted Aug 29, 2011 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Craft materials are not groceries.

I've become fond of the blog "The Happiness Project". (No, I haven't read her book, but I'm sure it's lovely, if it's anything like the blog. Reading a couple of years of intermittent posts in which Gretchen explains the Truths... Continue reading

Posted Aug 1, 2011 at Greet's Middle Ages

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For anyone who's ever left a comment...

I promise I didn't mean to ignore you. TypePad has evolved so swiftly, and spam comments (hiss!) proliferated so quickly, and I went back to school, that I just stuck my head in the sand re: comments. I've figured out... Continue reading

Posted Jun 2, 2011 at Greet's Middle Ages

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I've been sewing as part of a Big Barter lately. (And a little bit for me, as I stop quite so much faffing around in tertiary personas - trying to stick with 6thC and Bronze Age lately.) But it's been... Continue reading

Posted Jun 2, 2011 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Wine List, February 2011 (aka Way Overdue)

(Here ought to go a pile of apologies for forgetting how to blog. Let's call that done, and get to the good stuff.) Way back in February, my adopted group Glynn Rhe, threw an event called Wine List. The "List"... Continue reading

Posted Jun 1, 2011 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Requoting diamond twill source

I mean to go look at this diamond twill... Sounds like a re.seller who buys from these guys. I got mine direct at great prices, they do bulk as well if you can be patient and wait if they do... Continue reading

Posted Dec 7, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Early Anglo-Saxon embroidery

More quoting from the lists: Class Handouts Unaltered class handouts may be reproduced for use in non-profit teaching programs (eg SCA Collegia etc). * Five Period Stitches - Quick Reference Guide - Oct, 2003 (.pdf 148kb) * Five Period Stitches... Continue reading

Posted Dec 7, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Hedeby apron dress

More possibly useful things from the lists, apologies for not getting who posted this: Have you seen the summary that Shelagh has already put online? http://www.shelaghlewins.com/reenactment/hedeby_apron/hedeby_apron.htm It really does cover about 99% of what Hägg says about apron dresses http://needleprayse.webcon.net.au/research/index.html Continue reading

Posted Dec 7, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Red-tanned leather

Since I've started back to school, I've not been starting much new, though still keeping an eye on possibly useful items that come up on the lists. From Norsetalk2: Christopher wrote: >What would be a period way to a veg... Continue reading

Posted Dec 7, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Hysterical historical video mashups

"Beowulf": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBaSqO7n9U "The Vikings" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvJ2P0giVc "William the Conqueror": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ8A5gRe_Dw Apparently these are part of a series - they're wonderful. (School/work is going really well - but yes, it's taking away from the craftwork/blog while I adjust. Honnora's diamond twill apron... Continue reading

Posted Nov 23, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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The Viking, er Saxon* and I went to MGT, and tried out the wool geteld as a pavilion, with one side propped up. (*He's decided to switch sides and move back in time to meet me. Looks like I get... Continue reading

Posted Sep 27, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Pomaireware bean pot debut!

(The cat checks to make sure I am not planning Fricassee d'Feline.) This is the first in a collection I am making of ceramic cooking pots, in an effort to use more period gear on site. Although I admittedly started... Continue reading

Posted Sep 21, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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What to do with a small batch of leftover black dye? I needed to dye a bit of fringe leftover from the first diamond twill, black. Small pot of RIT. I'm inordinately proud of this idea - the point is... Continue reading

Posted Sep 1, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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RUM was held less than an hour away this year, so I got to go. The Royal University of Meridies is the annual big teaching event for the kingdom of Meridies, and it also hosts meetings for many of the... Continue reading

Posted Jul 21, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Have I mentioned lately that Reconstructing...

Have I mentioned lately that Reconstructing History is awesome, even when they're not reconstructing their Google pageranking? Hope this helps, Kass. www.reconstructinghistory.com Continue reading

Posted Jul 14, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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Cooking pots for fifty! Or eighty! Haven't decided...

NEW BIG HAIRY LEARNING CURVE ALERT! I've volunteered to be feastcrat/head cook for Glynn Rhe's combined A&S/fighting event, Convivium Collegialis/Wine List, held next February. As faithful readers of this blog will guess, I've had a Big Idea about how to... Continue reading

Posted Jul 13, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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A bit of blog housekeeping

Apparently relying on TypePad to forward blog comments to my email is a mistake. I apologize to all those commenters whom I haven't replied to...I try to respond to every comment, because I'd like GMA to be more than a... Continue reading

Posted Jul 7, 2010 at Greet's Middle Ages

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