Sue-the-Silkewoman

With c30 metres of one particular commissioned warp I’m actually a little ahead of schedule. Then I can pause for a bit - and make some other stuff and things 🙏 🧵 #historictextiles #medievaltextiles #silkewoman #historicfaversham

A period event…AND cakes! What’s not to like! I’m looking forward to finally raising my head beyond my deadline of weaving which is set for the end of this week, just in time for Faversham’s Medieval and Tudor Fayre.

Mmm suspect that’s wise advice! 😁

My Mum doing what she does best ❤️💕

This cheered me up a little. My 88yr old neighbour spotted a young lady in tears through her street window this morning. She opened her door and gave her a hug. Our local numskulls on a far-right march through our town had frightened her. I only heard them as I was upstairs, which was scary enough 😡

Discover the 16th-century ballad ‘Greensleeves’ in our 4 July conference and hear about it as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early modern England. www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...

A braid made with silk thread dyed with road, madder and weld.

Showing the making of the braid by two people with four sets of silk threads

A Grene Dorge of 12 bows. I was discussing multi-person fingerloop braiding with the Daughtery-Thing when she came over to help create a sample. (One was enough for this occasion as her poor wrist is in recovery).

Yay!

My booklist - and how excited I get at an alert saying some long out of print obscurity has been reduced in price by x%… and then I realise it’s now at the bargain price of only £220!!!!
My local library is brilliant - I think they draw lots when they see me enter with my interlibrary loan face on

Work in progress on a pale yellow, weld-dyed fine silk mesh hairnet based on extant fragments in the collection of the Museum of Ireland, Dublin. A flat rectangular shape, headscarf sized textile

A close up of the previous along with the netting tools: shuttle and gauge

In progress. A (speculative) c9/10thC headcovering based on written descriptions I’ve read, of fragments at National Museum of Ireland - basically a Viking hairnet! On my list to visit and see in person, but I have other museum visits to make first #silkwork #silkewoman #historictextiles #vikings

Very sad to hear that my own usually respected, Town Council supports a move of ‘high-handed historical illiteracy’. Of the two reasons for supporting the renaming of this path, the second is ‘bonkers’. One fires a gun (it’s a firearm) and one shoots from a bow. I will be signing.
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Many thanks 🙏

My silk hairnet paper will be part of session 622 on Tuesday July 8 - Threads of Knowledge:Medieval Textiles, 400-1400,II #historicnetting #silkwork #historictextiles #medievaltextiles #medievalfashion

The imc2025 poster with logo

Apparently I should have done this a while back! What can I say, it’s been busy 😁 🧵 As an independent, I’m very excited to be sharing a platform with the academic grownups at International Medieval Congress - University of Leeds #imc2025

A photo of a group of people in historical costume on bicycles through the ages from a Regency dandyhorse to 1980s racer. Text: ‘Kentwell Through The Ages Home Educators’ Day Friday 23rd May 2025 Tickets are on sale now Visit https://kentwell.co.uk/homeed-historyfest Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, CO10 9BA

A photo of a group of people of different ages in a meadow in modern and Tudor dress Text: ‘Kentwell Tudor Midsummer Home Educators’ Day Monday 23 June 2025 Tickets are on sale now Visit https://kentwell.co.uk/midsummerhomeed Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, CO10 9BA

Our #Tudor events and the Kentwell Through The Ages multiperiod re-creations include dedicated #homeeducation days, tickets on sale now.
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If you feel directed to send a few pennies in the direction of this incredible object and others like it, or to share widely, Dana would be hugely grateful 🙏 🗡️

Donate to Swords from Kingdom of Kent: Conservation & Micro-Stories, organized by Dana Goodburn-Brown Hi, my name is Dana Goodburn-Brown and I am part of a team of… Dana Goodburn-Brown needs your support for Swords from Kingdom of Kent: Conservation & Micro-Stories

You may have caught this year’s @diggingforbritain and the episode featuring a splendid Anglo-Saxon sword. It’s in the care of CSI: Sittingbourne, the conservation studio where I have been volunteering headed up by Dana Goodburn-Brown and she has launched a very special fundraising campaign:

Excellent! You’re here 😁 🧵

I’ll also be visiting a number of spinners’, dyers’, weavers’ and embroiderers’ guild groups for workshops, and hosting teaching days or weekends from home by arrangement.
It could be busy! 🧵

Historic Textiles with The Silkewoman Workshops. Talks. Demos/Displays 1. Sandwich Medieval Centre (additional workshop venues under discussion) 2. Lessons by arrangement in Kent at Sue’s small home studio 1-2 people 3. Invite Sue to trav...

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I’m delighted to be teaching five workshops at the incredible @sandwichmedievalcentre in Kent UK, in addition to occasional demonstrations at their usual weekly opening and unsurpassed special events.

Goodness! That’s incredible. And here’s me trying to find the time for embroidered bags too!🧵

Wow! I can’t say that I have, no

…It therefore comes as no surprise when I discover via a lovely colleague, that I’m lurking behind one of the doors of Dana Goodburn-Brown’s splendid CSI: Sittingbourne advent calendar! 🤣 Thanks @Laura Jayne(LauraTheExplorer) Yes, it was technically last year!

A lot of the time I am occupying a little textileyverse all of my own somewhere between musing ‘now could I make that…’, discovering a random fact /thing and D thrusting tea into my peripheral vision…

It is lovely to be working away quietly on a simple commission of glorious madder silk in front of a roaring fire

Work in progress of a group of red silk fingerloop braids alongside a handwritten braid instruction manuscript on vellum. Some of the braids are completed and the threads of four are warped on wooden clamps, ready to be worked on. The silk threads are hand dyed in madder.

Work in progress of a group of red silk fingerloop braids alongside a handwritten braid instruction manuscript on vellum. Some of the braids are completed and the threads of four are warped on wooden clamps, ready to be worked on. The silk threads are hand dyed in madder. A wood burning fire is lit in the background

From 1577 comes the use of a phrase we have become so familiar with and which I commend to all gentle readers and makers - “R. I. the Printer hereof, wisheth an happie New Yeere present, and many.” Simon Robson • A new yeares gift, The court of civill courtesie, out of Italian by S. R. • 1582 (1591)

And so, it begins!

An old wooden cotton reel wrapped in music notation paper attached to a brass bell and hung up for Christmas

We we first met our (then) new neighbours they gave me a cotton reel wrapped in music notation attached to something that makes a noise! 😁 Perfectly describes me…

Thoroughly recommended! 🧵

That sounds amazing; thank you! 🙏🧵