When I am brave enough I will get some pictures taken whilst I am wearing them!
They were quite comfortable or at least not as uncomfortable as I was expecting! But since putting them on after the festive season they are not so comfortable..... I wonder why.......
wine, chocolate etc etc....
I edged them in some linen binding tape. This makes them look very neat. It is getting harder and harder to find this tape.
I get mine from here.
http://www.empressmills.co.uk/acatalog/Bindings_Tapes.html
They do two different kinds of tape. A linen tape that is woven in a twill weave, which is the right one, and they do a book binding tape.
I wove the laces on my lucette and I bought some aglets from here
https://www.facebook.com/LucyTheTudor
She used to have a web site that I used. I hope this is the same woman!
I apologise if it is not....
or was it here...
http://www.classhistory.co.uk/Annie/bits.htm
All the eyelets are hand stitched and the entire thing is hand sewn in linen thread.
This I get from
http://www.stef-francis.co.uk/natural-yarns/35-3-linen
And also from a trader called Saxon Yarns who goes to the TORM
http://www.reenactorsmarket.co.uk/
The Hard rush I get from nature!
It is best picked shortly before you need to use it. This as I have mentioned can be found in wind swept damp fields that are grazed and also in ditches. It seem to readily self seed. I had a small amount growing in the garden.
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