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Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Weaving Vadmal VI - The Dress

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At long last, I'm finally able to post a few pictures of the finished dress made from my hand-woven, fulled and plant-dyed fabric of the...
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Friday, 27 February 2015

Weaving Vadmal V - The Finished Fabric

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In medieval times, the fulled fabric was stretched on tenterhooks while still damp to get its final shape (from which we get the English exp...
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Thursday, 1 January 2015

Weaving Vadmal IV - Fulling

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Two days before the vadmal weaving class were suppose to go the fulling mill in Skrekarhyttan , I realised had woven a lot less than I thou...
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Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Weaving Vadmal III - Interlude: Going to the Hebrides

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In early June, most of the vadmal weavers took a break from their looms and went to the Outer Hebrides. Or in my case, just took a break. ...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Weaving Vadmal II - SAMPLES!!!

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Like I wrote in the previous post , I decided to weave a cloth with a similar number of warp threads/cm to the mid-14th century Bocksten tu...
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Sunday, 7 December 2014

Weaving Vadmal I - Getting started

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After years of staring miserably at my empty loom, I finally decided what I needed to get weaving again: set deadlines and external pressur...
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Tuesday, 18 February 2014

The Historical Sew Fortnightly: Challenge 1 & 4

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The Historical Sew Fortnightly After some internal debate ('I don't need more things to sew. Or time constraints!' -'...
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I'm Vix (short for Viktoria). I'm an archaeologist specialising in crafts and textiles, with an additional degree in handweaving. I work as a curator in a museum and spend most of my time involved with textiles, crafts, living history, RPG, and 1930s and 40s vintage.
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