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mem_somerville

I've tried fatter linen (60/2) and finer linen (90/2). The 90/2 looks closer, and you can see I also tried that with a heavy outline thread (we call that gimp, sorry--I know).

But the pinholes were bothering me. I can get rid of them with some pulling on the lace in all directions. I assume that would be like a washed item might be treated? And why the pinholes aren't apparent in the museum one.

Anyway, more testing to do. But am getting closer, I think.

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Two strips of white linen bobbin lace. the upper strip is made with finer thinner thread, the lower one with fatter thread. The shape of both is a zigzag pattern with some open weave on the lower edge and v-shaped fan motifs in the upper edge. A nearby ruler shows that the fat thread linen is almost exactly an inch wide. The thinner one is probably 3/4 inch wide. It is annotated with the place I tugged the lace to make the pinholes less visible and the place where the pinholes are very apparent.
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Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏

In 2008, a pile of old junk was found under floorboards in an Austrian castle. VERY old junk - from the 1400s. It included several pieces of linen, which unlike wool or silk, usually decays quickly.

More specifically they found women's underwear, which is virtually never mentioned in surviving medieval texts. The discovery pushed back the invention of the bra by *several hundred years*. It's very modern looking.

The US patent for bras only goes back to 1914. At the earliest something like modern bras were thought to be worn in France in the late 1700s.

newsonhistory.blogspot.com/201

#culturalhistory#textilehistory#archaeology
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Michelle Amaranth

I love . My skills are pretty basic. I've mostly been weaving on Now I'm learning how to weave on a . I love and .

This particular project is one of the first ones I've warped without help. Mistakes were made. We're on a break. So it sits in the middle of our tiny living room until I have the heart to go back and fix it, thread by thread. I'm happy to be learning so much from this project and yet, we're still on a break.

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